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- - - - - - - | 9 9 . 5 2 | - - - - - - - | <nettime> announcer | a << | b - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | c | - - - - Grassmuck <h0724elw@rz.hu-berlin.de>: eZine medien/theorie/geschichte#4 | 0 1 | - - - - Dooley Le Cappellaine <dooley@thing.net> : ebay as an art medium | 0 2 | - - - - Le Monde diplomatique <dispatch@london.monde-diplomatique.fr>: Dec 1999 | 0 3 | - - - - Lee Wells <starflyer2012@yahoo.com> : Revolutionary Culture Manifestos | 0 4 | - - - - info@e-flux.com : Electronic Arts Intermix | 0 5 | - - - - valery grancher <vgranger@imaginet.fr> : Fwd: ERIKA | 0 6 | - - - - mezflesque.exe <mezandwalt@wollongong.starway.net.au> : BeeHive v 2.5 | 0 7 | - - - - | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | | delivered each weekend into your inbox | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 0 1 | - - - - From: "Volker Grassmuck" <h0724elw@rz.hu-berlin.de> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:09:21 +0200 Subject: eZine medien/theorie/geschichte #4 Dear Nettimers, this announcement is in German as is the journal being announced. I'm posting it because I think the topics covered are relevant to discussions on this list and because I hope that enough people on this list are indeed able to read it. Sorry to all others. best Volker -- sorry fuer crossposting -- -- bitte weiterverbreiten -- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> xxx <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< >>>>>>>>>> Medien / Theorie / Geschichte <<<<<<<< >>>>>>>>>> Ausgabe 4 soeben erschienen <<<<<<<< http://waste.informatik.hu-berlin.de/mtg/ >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> xxx <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Schwerpunkt des eZines m/t/g #4 sind die Vortraege des Symposions "Mimesis. Zur Krise des Bildbegriffs", das im Februar 1999 in Kassel stattfand. Daneben gibt es weitere Texte, Rezensionen und Hinweise auf Publikationen und Veranstaltungen. * Friedrich W. Block, Literatur in der Informationsgesellschaft * Georg Christoph Tholen, Einleitung: Weder Abbildung noch Nachbildung. Zur Divergenz der Medien * Wolfgang Coy, Bilder als schriftliche Kommunikation * Birgit Schneider / Peter Berz, Bildtexturen: Punkte, Zeilen, Spalten * Peter Gendolla / Thomas Kamphusmann, Die Auszenwelt der Innenwelt. Zur Aufloesung von Texten in interaktiver Literatur * Bernd Stiegler, Theorie des neuen Sehens. Zur Photographietheorie der 20er Jahre * Joachim Paech / Jan Siebert, Das Bild danach. Zum Bild der Destruktion der Bilder * Sabine Flach, Unaehnlich mit sich selbst. Abjecte bei Tony Oursler * Oliver Grau, Kunst als Inspiration medialer Evolution. Visionen der Immersion von Prampolini bis zur Virtuellen Realitaet * Joerg Pfl¸ger, Hoeren, Sehen, Staunen. Zur Ideengeschichte der Interaktivitaet * Friedrich Kittler, Comutergraphik. Eine halbtechnische Einf¸hrung * Sigrid Schade, Posen der Aehnlichkeit. Zur wiederholten Entstellung der Fotografie * Hans-Joachim Lenger, Lob der Enttaeuschung. Zur Dynamik des Bildverfalls * Volker Grassmuck, The Wizard of OS. Betriebssysteme der Systemgesellschaft. Konzept einer Konferenz in Berlin 2000 "Theorie und Geschichte der Medien" ist ein von der DFG gefoerderter Forschungsprojektverbund unter Beteiligung aus Konstanz, Mannheim, Berlin, Kassel und Siegen. Weitere Informationen zu den Teilprojekten auf der Website. Bitte beachten Sie auch die neue Theoriezeitschrift im Netz, die Z”suren <http://www.zaesuren.de> Ihr m/t/g-Hausmeister Volker Grassmuck <vgrass@rz.hu-berlin.de> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 0 2 | - - - - From: Dooley Le Cappellaine <dooley@thing.net> Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 18:24:45 -0500 Subject: ebay as an art medium Thanks for your support: thanks to everyone at nettime for their interest in the auction (ebay) of "Technophobia" CD Rom: an interactive CD ROM of artist's working in New Media. Jim Mason is the lucky winner! Dooley Le Cappellaine. http://www.thing.net/dooley > >I posted Nettime with a brief description of my interest in projects by >artists using ebay. >My project was very conventional: I offered a copy of my CD up for auction >in the "Collectables: Fine Arts/" section. http://www.thing.net/dooley Phone and Fax (212) 966-3046 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 0 3 | - - - - Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 18:33:53 +0100 From: Le Monde diplomatique <dispatch@london.monde-diplomatique.fr> Subject: December 1999 Le Monde diplomatique ----------------------------------------------------- December 1999 LEADER The year 2000 * by IGNACIO RAMONET As we approach the threshold of the year 2000 - a mythical date that has long served as a synonym for the future that is about to become our present - we inevitably pause to take stock of the state of the our world. A central phenomenon is the way in which every country is caught up in the dynamic of globalisation. A second capitalist revolution is underway. But many are determined to oppose it. <http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/1999/12/?c=01leader> Translated by Ed Emery LAW OF EMPIRE The US undermines international law by PHYLLIS BENNIS In the name of so-called "moral superiority" the United States wants to determine the norms of international life. But Washington's development aid to the poorest countries - $7bn in 1997 - is less than half what it was at the end of the cold war. Having failed to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) on 13 October, the US is forging ahead with anti-missile systems that put the disarmament treaties of the last decades at risk. By marginalising the UN and empowering Nato to intervene in Yugoslavia, it has violated international law and the UN Charter. And it is also refusing to sign or ratify other key documents such as the new International Criminal Court. Original text in English Washington triggers new arms race by PAUL-MARIE DE LA GORCE Although a study published by the US defence department last month concluded that "Star Wars" projects are doomed to failure, Washington is determined to establish an anti-missile programme. Neither strong opposition from Moscow nor the doubts of its European allies seem enough to stop this programme which will trigger a new arms race and undermine the long-standing non-proliferation treaties now in force. Translated by Barry Smerin LESSONS OF WAR French diplomacy adrift in Kosovo * by ERIC ROULEAU On 10 November the French defence ministry issued a document criticising the attitude of the United States during the air attacks on Serbia, claiming that some military operations were conducted outside the strict framework of the Atlantic Alliance. Washington immediately denied the allegation. With the National Assembly's defence committee due to publish its report on the Kosovo war later this month, questions remain about the reasons for France's involvement in an escapade that has heightened tension in the Balkans. <http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/1999/12/?c=04rouleau> Translated by Barry Smerin A HISTORY OF THE 20TH CENTURY Age Of Extremes defies French censors * by ERIC HOBSBAWM It has taken five years for Eric Hobsbawm's world-acclaimed Age of Extremes to appear in French - even though it has been translated into more than 20 languages. By November, one month after publication, the book was on all the best-selling lists, with 40,000 copies printed. The whole affair has revealed the disquiet and ambiguities that surround intellectual life in France. No-one denied the quality of the work. Nor was it a question of financial considerations. It was Hobsbawm's ideas that were in question, in particular his unrepentant position on the left. With France having undergone a long period of 'Stalinisation' from which it had finally emerged, it was felt that the ideological and intellectual climate was not right for its publication. Publishers preferred books defending the ideas of French writer FranÁois Furet who held that the century boiled down to communism and nazism, and that both were equally dangerous forms of totalitarianism. In deciding to translate Hobsbawm's book, Editions Complexe and Le Monde diplomatique have refused to reduce history to a single official theory. French-speaking readers have applauded this stand. And Le Monde diplomatique has contributed to a rich and complex debate on the history of the century that is now drawing to a close. Here, Hobsbawm explains the problems associated with the book's publication. <http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/1999/12/?c=05hobsbawm> Original text in English CLAIMS ON WESTERN SAHARA HAMPER MAGHREB UNITY Algiers and Rabat, still miles apart * by LAHOUARI ADDI The UN-organised referendum in Western Sahara, planned for July 2000, seems likely to be put off yet again. This third postponement, officially explained by the need to check the details of 79,000 people struck off the electoral register, is undoubtedly meant to spare the young King Mohammed VI the major crisis that victory by the supporters of independence would unleash. Yet the compromise Rabat is hoping for - wide-ranging autonomy - depends on the agreement of the Polisario Front, and hence on reconciliation between Algeria and Morocco. And that is still a long way off. <http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/1999/12/?c=06algm> Translated by Derry Cook-Radmore AS THE CHECHEN WAR CONTINUES West's autistic view of Russia * by JACQUES SAPIR Conspiracy or chaos? Either way, not much good has come of eight years of Western "aid" to Russia and uncritical support for the group of free-marketeers around President Boris Yeltsin. <http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/1999/12/?c=07sapir> Translated by Ed Emery Russia desperately seeks a solution by BORIS RAKITSKI and DENIS PAILLARD With parliamentary elections on 19 December and the presidential election in June 2000, the post-Yeltsin period in Russia is already upon us. History may not be kind to the man who buried the Soviet Union and dragged his country kicking and screaming into the age of capitalism. It now faces an economy in ruins, social disorder, widespread crime, cultural alienation and marginalisation in the international community. Not to mention the problem of deflecting public discontent, securing political continuity in the Kremlin and avoiding the judicial consequences of the scandals surrounding the president's family. Already alarmed by Islamist incursions in Dagestan in August, Russians were deeply shocked by the wave of terrorist attacks in September, which claimed several hundred victims. The attacks were attributed - without any actual proof - to followers of Shamil Basayev. So, unlike the first excursion into Chechnya in 1993-96, the present campaign has wide public support. This is total war. Half the rebel republic has fallen to the Russian army, with 5,000 dead and 200,000 refugees. The man who has done best out of the operation is the outgoing president's favourite candidate, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. His rating in the opinion polls has shot up from 2% to 29%, putting him - temporarily - ahead of all other contenders. The softly-softly approach of Western critics has also helped. There have been a few token protests but the regime responsible for wrecking Russia still has the political and financial backing of the United States and its allies. Washington may continue to support the Kremlin but that does not prevent it from doing all it can to stifle any revival of Russian power and undermine Moscow's influence in the Caucasus and Central Asia. In mid-November it gave official blessing to plans for direct oil and gas pipelines from the Caspian to the Turkish port of Ceyhan on the Mediterranean, bypassing Russia and Iran. Of course there is still the small matter of funding for the construction work due to start in 2004. Translated by Barbara Wilson WAR WITHOUT BLOOD? Hypocrisy of 'non-lethal' arms * by STEVE WRIGHT The horror of images of deaths caused by Western armies in military operations, designed to maintain peace and security, has led to the development of new arms that are intended to paralyse, not destroy. Yet for all this seductive rhetoric, so-called "non-lethal" arms have the potential to increase the level of violence, spawning ever more advanced techniques of repression. And if democratic countries let their arms manufacturers develop these techniques, they will be exported to places less concerned about brutalising their populations. <http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/1999/12/?c=09wright> Original text in English HOW TO COMBAT THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT Heatwave hits the planet by DOMINIQUE FROMMEL Motor vehicle manufacturers are doing little to design "clean" cars, and public transport operators - often public services - are not proving any more responsible, although solutions are available to reduce the fumes choking our cities. The rise in carbon dioxide emissions from traffic, power stations and industry is exacerbating the greenhouse effect, with the risk of climate change. At the UN summit in Bonn in early November, more than 60 countries agreed to ratify the 1997 Kyoto protocol before 2002. This commits the industrialised nations to cutting their emissions of greenhouse gases. But the US Senate still wants to stop Washington from ratifying the protocol. Translated by Malcolm Greenwood FREE TRADE ACROSS AN IRON CURTAIN The line that divides Mexico and the US by our special correspondent JANETTE HABEL Along the frontera, an economic area that is home to some eight million people, lies the great market of a world in breakneck industrial expansion - the world of the twin bi-national cities that are the prototypes for a globalised economy. On the Mexican side, exploitation of the workers is normal practice in the subcontractors' factories, or maquiladoras. Streams of immigrants from the interior, especially the deprived regions of the south, arrive there, then find themselves caught in a trap. Once they have realised just how wretched life is going to be, they have only one way out - to cross the border. But while goods and finance circulate freely, the US is taking serious steps to stop the passage of people. Translated by Derry Cook-Radmore Caught on the last-chance frontier by our special correspondent MARIE-AGN»S COMBESQUE Translated by Derry Cook-Radmore EIGHT YEARS OF CIVIL WAR Fragile peace for Sierra Leone * by ELIZABETH BLUNT The 7 July accord signed in Lome (Togo) between the Sierra Leone authorities and the Revolutionary United Front means that the atrocities of the civil war will go unpunished. The RUF has been allocated four government posts but the UN has called for action against the appalling human rights violations. Meanwhile the agreement remains shrouded in uncertainty. <http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/1999/12/?c=13blunt> Original text in English POWER OF THE WORLD'S TRUE MASTERS When the giants play with fire Top companies' tables by FREDERIC F. CLAIRMONT Translated by Malcolm Greenwood BACK PAGE The two faces of parity by MARIETTE SINEAU This month the French government is due to pass a bill designed to introduce equal opportunities for men and women in politics, in particular for the local council elections in 2001. The refusal to set quotas for the number of women running for election has already drawn sharp criticism. However, additional measures are needed to make political power sharing possible. Elected representatives should be given a special status, with a range of provisions to relieve them of part of their family duties. Only then will all women be able enter public life, not just the privileged few. Translated by Harry Forster English language editorial director: Wendy Kristianasen _________________________________________________________________ (*) Star-marked articles are available to every reader. Other articles are available to paid subscribers only. Yearly subscription fee: 24 US $ (Institutions 48 US $). ALL RIGHTS RESERVED - Le Monde diplomatique ______________________________________________________________ For more information on our English edition, please visit http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/ To subscribe to our free "dispatch" mailing-list, send an (empty) e-mail to: dispatch-on@london.monde-diplomatique.fr To unsubscribe from this list, send an (empty) e-mail to: dispatch-off@london.monde-diplomatique.fr - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 0 4 | - - - - Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 10:15:11 -0800 (PST) From: Lee Wells <starflyer2012@yahoo.com> Subject: Alert: Accepting Revolutionary Culture Manifestos NOW! RHIZOME The Time Is NOW!!! Around the Coyote Arts Festival, Imperfect FLuids Arts Collective and EXE digital Media Spectacles presents to you a collaboration. Searching for Manifestos of the Future and beyond Please send your maxims, bullet points, essays and other knowledge to be combined into an eternal document. Selected writings will be published in a 24 Page full color festival Catalogue. Currently finishing up the layout and thanks to friends financial support we've decided to include 8 more pages. The festival is the first weekend of February send submissions to ifac@yahoo.com The artworld is changing for the better The "real" world is in trouble How can we as creators and thinkers organize to perpetuate positive growth and cultural advancement of our species. Break the theory from its chains If you dont have a manifesto, write one. All submissions will be published on-line in the coming last days of the century. How to save the world in 365 days or less. Happy Winter Solstice Happy Holidays Happy2000 Happy NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cheers Lee __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 0 5 | - - - - Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 23:29:03 -0500 (EST) Subject: Electronic Arts Intermix From: info@e-flux.com Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) invites you to visit the Online Catalogue of EAI's collection of artists' video and new media, at http://www.eai.org. EAI's collection represents a broad survey of international media art, from seminal tapes of the 1960s to new works by young artists of the 1990s. The Online Catalogue is a resource that includes biographies for over 200 artists and descriptions of over 2,500 works. The following are among the works that are newly available from EAI: NEW MEDIA: EAI presents a series of interactive CD-ROMs, including "Immemory" by French filmmaker Chris Marker; "Anarchive #1: Muntadas: Media, Architecture, Installations," and "Where Where There There There Where" by Zoe Beloff and the Wooster Group. AUDIO ART: EAI introduces three newly restored audio works by Vito Acconci. These rare conceptual audio pieces, which date from 1969 to 1977, are available on audio CD. NEW VIDEO: New videotapes include works by Phyllis Baldino, Klaus vom Bruch, Cheryl Donegan, Dan Graham, Ursula Hodel, Tom Kalin, Shigeko Kubota, Kristin Lucas, Tony Oursler, Michael Smith, and Julie Zando, among others. HISTORICAL WORKS: Newly restored bodies of work from the 1960s and 70s are available by artists including Martha Rosler, Juan Downey, Bruce Nauman, and Muntadas. Rare historical tapes by Nam June Paik & Jud Yalkut, Joan Jonas, Vito Acconci, Terry Fox, Mary Lucier, and Fluxus artist Larry Miller, among others, are also newly available. EAI is a non-profit media arts center that provides the international distribution of an extensive collection of artists' video and new media, a video preservation program, a screening room, and equipment access, among other programs. Please contact us at info@eai.org for further information. Tapes are available for rental and purchase in a range of formats. For ordering and price information, or to order directly online, please visit http://www.eai.org. Electronic Arts Intermix 542 W 22nd Street, 3rd FL NY 10011 212 337 0680 212 337 0679 fax http://www.eai.org ......................... http://www.e-flux.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 0 6 | - - - - Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 19:01:08 +0100 From: valery grancher <vgranger@imaginet.fr> Subject: [Fwd: ERIKA] Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 16:18:03 +0100 From: tamaralai <tamaralai@reality.be> Reply-To: tamaralai@reality.be Subject: ERIKA <97 lines of To/CC/other headers deleted--announcifier> "L'homme rouge a toujours recule devant l'avance de l'homme blanc, de meme que la brume des montagnes recule devant le soleil du matin. L'homme blanc ne comprend pas nos voies. Il ne sait pas que chaque partie de la Terre est sacree dans la memoire de mon peuple. L'homme blanc traite sa Mere, la Terre, comme une chose qui peut etre achetee ou vendue. Il devorera la Terre et laissera derriere lui un desert. Qu'est ce qu'une vie sans animaux et sans fleurs ? Le jour ou le dernier fourre aura disparu, ou le dernier poney sera un souvenir alors l'homme mourra d'une grande solitude de l'esprit" Il faut garder en memoire le souvenir de la terre de nos ancetres et apprendre, meme en utilisant le baton, que chaque partie de la Terre est sacree. L'eau du ressac est la meme molecule que celle qui coule dans nos veines. L'homme blanc n'a toujours pas compris... Chef indien Seattle (1854) Le dimanche 12 decembre 99 le petrolier ERIKA a fait naufrage au large de la Bretagne. Une fois encore la recherche du profit maximum est ý l origine d'une catastrophe ecologique. Nouvel exemple deplorable de la mondialisation orchestree ici par les multinationales petrolieres, il impose ý la societe civile de faire entendre sa voix par le seul moyen qui lui reste : toucher les pollueurs au coeur de leurs interets. Cette fois-ci nous n'attendrons pas de savoir qui de l'armateur, du controleur ou tout autre acteur de cette chaine de maximisation des profits intermediaires est coupable. D'autant plus que les lois internationales du trafic maritime sont dictees par les avocats d'affaires des compagnies petrolieres. TotalFina en tant qu'affreteur de l'ERIKA est responsable en 1ere ligne.Nous exigeons reparation immediate et sans appel, aussi: NOUS APPELONS AU BOYCOTT IMMEDIAT ET POUR UNE DUREE INDETERMINEE DES PRODUITS TOTAL/FINA Si vous vous sentez concernes merci de diffuser largement cet appel. Si vous en avez la possibilite faites le traduire dans toutes les langues de la terre. ---------------------------------- Reseaux operationnels de Collaboration & Solidarite: ML : RoCS@onelist.com ----------------------------------- Community email addresses: Post message: RoCS@onelist.com Subscribe: RoCS-subscribe@onelist.com Unsubscribe: RoCS-unsubscribe@onelist.com List owner: RoCS-owner@onelist.com Shortcut URL to this page: http://www.onelist.com/community/RoCS - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 0 7 | - - - - Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 10:30:42 +1100 From: "mezflesque.exe" <mezandwalt@wollongong.starway.net.au> Subject: BeeHive Volume 2 : Issue 5 *-*[begin dispatch]*-* BeeHive Volume 2 : Issue 5 December 1999 http://www.temporalimage.com/beehive/ ____________ Happy Holidays from BeeHive and Percepticon! Our gift to you, a brand new issue. ____________ A HISTORY OF NORTH BEACH POETRY --- Allen Cohen >From the Beats to the readings of today, longtime 'Oracle' editor and counter-culture icon Allen Cohen walks us through a poetical history of poetry in San Francisco's North Beach district. Plus, poems to Allen Ginsberg, Jack Micheline, and more... http://www.temporalimage.com/beehive/content_apps25/cohen.html ____________ SKY SCRATCHEZ --- Mez and Memmott Australian 'electrostatix' artist Mez and BeeHive editor Talan Memmott team-up for this hyperactive hypertextual de/re/de/recomposition... http://www.temporalimage.com/beehive/content_apps25/skyscratchez.html ____________ SKELETON SKY --- Carolyn Guertin Carolyn Guertin returns to the pages of BeeHive with a Millennium Poem... http://www.temporalimage.com/beehive/content_apps25/skeletonsky.html ____________ 28 YEARS IN 1,000 WORDS --- Nicholas Morgan short, (bitter)sweet and to the point tragic fiction... http://www.temporalimage.com/beehive/content_apps25/28_1000.html ____________ And, dont forget about the BeeHive Archive for more great hypertext fiction, theory and poetry... http://www.temporalimage.com/beehive/archive/index.html ____________ ____________ ***special stocking stuffer*** 9th Ave. Banana Wars first -- 59, 49, 39 cents a pound then -- 3, 4, 5 pounds for a dollar - tm ____________ ____________ +IF underground spa[z]m = flesh sub.stance of n anim[us].all body// +THEN *.esque = n-dicating style, manner, dis[junct]tinc.tive charact[h]er +AND _____________________________________ +wollongong.starway.net.au/~mezandwalt <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<[flesque is born] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > > > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net