[Another quantitative study of cultural history, like Moretti's Graphs, Maps, Trees (2003) or Lev Manovich's work in cultural analytics. Fascinating stuff, if I only knew what to make of it. The figures, for example, are really beautiful, though, for me, entirely incomprehensible. Ah, the joys of visualization. Felix ] Jockers, Matthew, Stanford University, USA, mjockers-FGKo4X94FMn2fBVCVOL8/A< at >public.gmane.org http://tinyurl.com/9khetrl Overview In literary studies, we have no shortage of anecdotal wisdom regarding the role of influence on creativity. Consider just a few of the most prominent voices: - 'Talents imitate, geniuses steal' - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900?).1 - 'All ideas are second hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources' Mark Twain (1903). - 'The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of the literature - has a simultaneous existence.' T. S. Eliot (1920). - 'The

[Another quantitative study of cultural history, like Moretti's Graphs, Maps, Trees (2003) or Lev Manovich's work in cultural analytics. Fascinating stuff, if I only knew what to make of it. The figures, for example, are really beautiful, though, for me, entirely incomprehensible. Ah, the joys of visualization. Felix ] Jockers, Matthew, Stanford University, USA, mjockers-FGKo4X94FMn2fBVCVOL8/A< at >public.gmane.org http://tinyurl.com/9khetrl Overview In literary studies, we have no shortage of anecdotal wisdom regarding the role of influence on creativity. Consider just a few of the most prominent voices: - 'Talents imitate, geniuses steal' - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900?).1 - 'All ideas are second hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources' Mark Twain (1903). - 'The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of the literature - has a simultaneous existence.' T. S. Eliot (1920). - 'Th

Die Vorstellung, dass Kulturen, sowohl als ganzes wie auch ihre einzelnen Manifestationen, aus Mischungen, Wandlungen, Verschiebungen, Bearbeitungen und Neuformierungen unterschiedlichster Elemente bestehen, bereitet uns Unbehagen. Das Aufkommen einer „Remix Kultur“, in der das Neue nie einfach nur neu ist, sondern immer unter explizitem Einbezug unterschiedlichster Elemente des Alten artikuliert wird, wird von vielen als Niedergang der (abendländischen) Kultur empfunden. Besonders sichtbar wird dies in der Auseinandersetzungen um das Urheberrecht, die deutlich an Schärfe zugenommen haben. In der ZEIT vom 10. Mai, 2012 sahen Autoren eine der „zentralen Errungenschaften der bürgerlichen Freiheit“ bedroht, kurz darauf bezeichnen Musikschaffende die Schweiz als „Urheberrechts-Guantánamo in Europa“, weil die relativ liberale Gesetzgebung sie ihrer fundamentalen Rechte beraube.

Was steckt hinter diesen schrillen Tönen? Nicht zuletzt eine zunehmend problematische Konzeption von Autorschaft als Urheberschaft. Diese soll im folgenden beleuchtet und mit einer zeitgemässeren Konzeption von Autorschaft kontrastiert werden.

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bwo INURA ml / author A new piece on the Occupy Wall Street and right to the city movements that may be of interest: "We Are the 99%" - The Slogan and the Reality¬¬ A new blog #17, dealing with the Occupy Wall Street movement and the Right to the City Alliances, as representative of the 99%, who is in them and who in the 1%, why historically they have arisen now, how they have changed since their beginnings, and what their future demands and strategic possibilities and dangers might be. The essential points are that the theoretical 99% are much less than 50% in practice, that transformative systemic change is not on the agenda today, that that realization has become acknowledged, particularly since the defeat of 1968, that the Occupy and RTTC movements are recognizing that fact and moving to individual transformative changes, with dangers and, given good outreach, real potentials for new transformative strategies. Blog #17, at pmarcuse.wordpress.com, is structured as follows:: I."We Are the 99%" - Th

Google Starts Punishing “Pirate” Sites In Search Results August 10, 2012 https://torrentfreak.com/google-starts-punishing-pirate-sites-in-search-results-120810/ Google announced today that it will lower the search engine rankings of websites that receive a high number of DMCA takedown requests, independent of whether the linked content is lawful or not. The algorithm change is the result of extensive lobbying efforts by Hollywood and the major music labels, and could severely degrade the rankings of websites such as The Pirate Bay, FilesTube, and even YouTube. yFor years entertainment industry groups have lobbied search engines to penalize sites that link to a high number of copyrighted files, and today Google has given in to their demands. The search engine will soon take into consideration the number of DMCA takedown notices it receives against sites to determine the ranking of those websites in its search results. “Starting next week, we will begin taking into account a new signal in

Original to: http://kafila.org/2012/08/13/how-to-start-a-riot-out-of-facebook-yousuf-saeed/ bwo Sarai Reader List/ author How to start a riot out of Facebook Yousuf Saeed I am utterly shocked and pained to read about the violent rally that many Muslims took out at Azad Maidan in Mumbai on 11 August 2012 in protest against the recent communal carnage in Assam and Burma. More than the accidental death of two men and 50 injured in yesterday’s protest, what alarmed me was the public anger targeted on the media for “not reporting about the violence against Muslims in Assam and Myanmar”. Several vans of TV channels and their equipment were smashed or burnt besides a number of police vehicles destroyed. Of course, the authorities are still probing as to who really began the violence in an otherwise peaceful rally (and we are open to the results of such a probe). But my worst fear came true with this assertion of one of the protesters in a newspaper report: “Why is the media not covering Burma and Assam? We

Dear all, and thanks Andreas for your note What is most problematic about e-flux is not necessary its corporate ambitions, but more so how it disguises a business venture into a philanthropic one (as Andreas also noted). Here the commodity, which is the "announcement service" is sugar coated as a cultural contribution, which hides its exchange-value. It is no doubt great to hear about biennials in remote places, but only as far as they pay whatever hundred dollars a pop an announcement costs. This is a great example of what Boltanski and Chiapello call the connextionist world where the commodity and the network become inseparable. With every new person signing to receive the announcement, the corporation?s penetration expands and its network solidifies, each recipient is an asset for the company that can further bank on for more requests from galleries, museums etc. Or to put it another way, each recipient is a commodity that the company is selling to organizations that use the service to advertise their

G'morning! SURVEILLANCE CHESS (2012) Hijacking CCTV Cameras in London ___________________________________________________________ Equipped with an interfering transmitter !Mediengruppe Bitnik hacks surveillance cameras in pre-Olympic London and assumes control. The artist collective replaces real-time surveillance images with an invitation to play a game of chess. The security staff's surveillance monitor located in the control room becomes a game console. HTTP://CHESS.BITNIK.ORG ___________________________________________________________ __________________________ ________________ __________________ London. On the brink of the Olympic Games. A tube station in one of the most surveilled public spaces in the world. !Mediengruppe Bitnik intercepts the signal of a surveillance camera: Business people making their way to the Underground, a man in a suit looking for the right exit. From the left, a woman with a yellow suitcase walks into the frame of the surveillance camera. She opens her suitcase and a

john, folks, just to clarify: i forwarded the e-flux announcement to the nettime list to contribute to the ongoing discussion about the topic; i share john's critique of e-flux (and some of these people have names that are well-known in the art world) posing as a community initiative when what they do is run a business that, in a way that is as curious as it is problematic, mixes financial, social and artistic interests. (coming to think of it: maybe this situation is a good opportunity to ask our community leaders at e-flux about our community's financial situation? ;-) however, if there is any real benefit to be gained from running the .art domain, it may well be that e-flux might still be easier to talk to by people from the art scenes, than other candidates for the TLD might be. i'm guessing and am not really too interested because, somewhat like olia, i believe that the .art addresses will mostly be in the .kitsch domain. regards, -a

Dear Nettimers, e-flux is a for-profit venture that sells announcements for . exhibitions, events, etc for considerable amounts. The so-called . "announcement" service is not free and runs an enterprise that like . other similar capitalist ventures funnels some cash into arts and . culture. The threat of venture capitalists claiming the .art is not . that greater than any other organization. Already other top domain . names belong to various other business ventures and other wise. . This is definitely not a Good-Samaritan gesture as is portrayed (oh . a nice little artist run organization in the lower-east side) But . while there is nothing wrong with making $$ in a capitalist society . and e-flux or any other for-profit enterprise can cash in on .art . or any other thing for that matter, what is strange is using a free . platform for a global community of thinkers such as nettime and ask . for their support for a highly profitable financial investment. . If anythin

Betreff: Our vision for the .art domain, the issues involved, and what is at stake for the art community Datum: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 09:07:06 -0400 Von: e-flux <info< at >mailer.e-flux.com> The .art domain Visit http://www.artdomaincommunity.com to learn more about our vision for the domain, the issues involved, and what is at stake for the art community. Dear Colleagues, As you may already know, e-flux is currently applying for the rights to administer *.art*, one of many forthcoming top-level domain names that ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is releasing with the hope of broadening the space of the internet and making it more legible. We have developed a new site: *www.artdomaincommunity.com* <http://interspire.e-flux.com/link.php?M=91575&N=3322&L=6573&F=H> where you can learn more about our vision for the domain, the issues involved, and what is at stake for the art community. The top-level domains will bring the internet into a completely new era, and this means that m

Exclusive Gonzo Circus essay ‘Time-wars’ by Mark Fisher http://www.gonzocircus.com/incubate-special-exclusief-essay-tijdstrijd-door-mark-fisher-k-punk/ Leading radical blogger and professor ‘cultural analysis’ Mark Fisher (aka k-punk) is one of the keynote speakers at this year’s Incubate DIY-conference. He is the author of the acclaimed ‘Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?’ and publishes in New Statesman, Frieze and The Wire. Daily he posts his comments on twitter as kpunk99. In his work he refers to an autonomist framework, incorporating elements from workerism, post-marxism and anarchism. Mark Fisher wrote the thought-provoking essay ‘Time-wars’ exclusively for Incubate and Gonzo (circus). There is a Dutch translation available on the Gonzo website. == Time rather than money is the currency in the recent science fiction film In Time. At the age of 25, the citizens in the future world the film depicts are given only a year more to live. To survive any longer, they must earn extra

Researching BWPWAP: The Reinvention of Research as Participatory Practice Call for Participation for International Research Conference and PhD Workshop to be held at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany, 22-24 November 2012. Organised by: Digital Aesthetics/Participatory IT Research Centre, Aarhus University reSource transmedial culture berlin/transmediale festival Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University of Lüneburg We hereby invite proposals for participation in a research workshop around the 2013 theme of the transmediale festival, BWPWAP (Back When Pluto Was A Planet). We are addressing researchers with diverse backgrounds interested in opening up some of the paradoxes of contemporary digital art and culture. Although the workshop is primarily aimed at international PhD researchers, it is also open to researchers who are pursuing research without institutional support. The workshop aims at researching concepts and phenomena that, in the light of the festival's thematic framew

The latest injection of the fake New York Times op-ed article may be signaling a new wave of (ab)use of an inherent architectural feature in today's "world wide web": the wide adoption of end-user MLM schemes (aka "social networks", the world's biggest Tupperware parties) means that most references to web pages now go through end-user's hands. In other words, the links controlled by the web site operator (say, LA Times of MSNBC) are less frequently used directly - instead, they are passed to others via end-user intervention. During this intervention the link can be changed or faked. Impersonating a site's page while subtly changing or skillfully faking content is a relatively trivial copy/paste operation. No one checks slight misspellings in the URL. This means that it is easy to snatch a piece of media outlet's 24/7 footprint. That real estate is the only real value the outlets have. It does not matter if the output is truth or lies. What matters is the 24/7 control of the narrative. Just look at the re

Knowledge is Natural http://www.artisopensource.net/2012/08/04/knowledge-is-natural-a-workshop-about-diy-energy-and-augmented-reality-in-natural-environments/ For Knowledge is Natural, we will be in the beautiful woods of the south of Italy to explore the possibility to re-appropriate sensibilities and knowledge about natural environments, using DIY, sustainable energy sources, Augmented Reality, Natural Interaction, Ubiquitous Technologies and the re-discovery of human relationships and emergent, peer-to-peer creativity. Knowledge is Natural, August 19-25 2012, in Societing's 3rd Summer School titled "Transmutation, the Next Mediterranean Way". The Summer School is created by the Mediterranean Societing Academy, Centro Studi Etnografia Digitale, Universit?? degli Studi di Milano, Universit?? degli Studi di Salerno, AOS ??? Art is Open Source???. The workshop will last 3 days. We will work within nature. Our lab will be an innovative camp in which we will give life to novel forms of collaborative stu

Re: <nettime> The Revolution Will Not Be Televised!! Newmedia-YDxpq3io04c< at >public.gmane.org Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w< at >public.gmane.org> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From: Newmedia-YDxpq3io04c< at >public.gmane.org Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 05:28:48 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: <nettime> The Revolution Will Not Be Televised!! Dante: Thanks -- so what would the world look like if the WORKING CLASS (or any other group on whose "behalf" one believes they are waging *revolution*) didn't watch television anymore? Would that REVOLUTION have already happened and how would we know it? What would the economy look like if television advertising (and all other mass-media, including the use of the Internet as an advertising medium) was eliminated? Have any economic *radicals* ever made this proposal? What would happen to "democracy" if election campaigns weren't al

Gregory M Bernard Whistleblowing in a Wikileaks World A Model for Responsible Disclosure in Homeland Security PhD thesis (March 2012) Naval Postgraduate School (US Navy) Monterey, California Full text thru: http://calhoun.nps.edu/public/handle/10945/6769 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Introduction A dramatic change in the information-sharing environment has occurred over the last decade. New technologies, the rapid evolution of the Internet, and innovations in social media have provided the ability to gather and share information at an unprecedented level. The Executive Branch of the U.S. Government touts the virtues of transparency, while Congress defines whistleblowing and the disclosure of government fraud/waste/abuse as a “civic duty”, and yet the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) process is broken, the Whistleblower Protection Act (WPA) is woefully inadequate, and secrecy continues to run rampant. The disclosure of hundreds of thousands of potentially classified documents to the organization Wikileaks may be

Hello nettimers I'm absolutely indifferent to top level domains and domain names in general. Would not give a cent for .art after my name, not even for .lol At the same time I'm a big old fan of both URLs and the location bar. http://art.teleportacia.org/Location_Yes/ (1999) I'm fascinated about the way one can narrate in the location bar and communicate literary everything through it, including business interests and copyright issues. All significant net art projects are incorporating address space, some of them take place in this bar solely. And I always try to resist any attempt to hide the adress bar in favour of a cleaner presentation. And am very sensitive to the intentions of developers to get rid of this interface artefact that look oh so unnecessarily technical. Because it is the last command line users still have. Our only front end to the algorithmic culture :) So I have mixed feelings when watching the new top level domain rush. The nice and optimistic one is that if big players ar

Maybe the entire history and ongoing present of something called "tactical media"? Maybe an infinite discussion around a relatively slim book called "Society of the Spectacle"? Eric Kluitenberg and friends have put together an interesting little website on the former: http://www.tacticalmediafiles.net best, Brian

Folks: I'm curious about why there is so little discussion, let alone *righteous* anger, about television on this list? Could it be that many of those who post actually want their thoughts and actions to be noticed -- by television? "Activist" often connotes those who participate in *demonstrations* -- so what is being "demonstrated" to whom and how? And what is the relationship between *demonstrating* and the evening news? "Terrorism" also makes no sense without television. TERROR has to communicated to a *mass* audience and that's where television comes in. In crucial terms, if it isn't on television then it didn't happen. OCCUPY began with a call from the glossy magazine ADBUSTERS. That always struck me as an odd approach. Fight advertising by coming up with ads against ads -- WTF? Do you *fight* brainwashing with more brainwashing? Do you combat psychological warfare with a "better" version of the same thing? In Gestalt psychological terms, this is phenomenon is wel