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Virtual Sit-In in Solidarity with the Striking Students of France!
March 16th to the 18th, 2006
We invite people from all over the world who support the french students in resistance and oppose the precaritization of life
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precarity to join the Electronic Disturbance Theatre and borderlands Hacklab on March 16th and 17th, 2006 to engage in a virtual sit-in on french government websites to demand
Here's my algorithm for art.
Let's say that you've graduated from art school. You decide
to make something or do something. Let's call this something
S. You use all the techniques (T) that you've learned in art
school to make/do S. You then show this to a friend. Your
friend doesn't recognize [EQUIV] it as art A even though
you've used all the techniques (T) and procedures [FUNC]
you've learned in art school. You know that S is art. You now
I've been doing things today...
I setup urlfilter, inline, and simplenews for post.thing.net.
urlfilter automatically converts web and email addresses to links.
the inline module allows you to place attached images in your post. See the Input Format->Filtered HTML description for more details.
Inline and URL Filter will only work with the filtered HTML input format.
Simple News will become our new mailing list manager. Allowing you to easily subscribe and unsubscribe from our mailing lists.
Ricardo Miranda, is touring the Armory with his Broadcast Cart.
Tune in Sunday Mar 12 from 3-6pm @ radio.thing.net
Public Broadcast Cart is a shopping cart outfitted with a dynamic microphone, a mixer, an amplifier, six speakers, a miniFM transmitter and a laptop with a wireless card. The audio captured by the microphone on the cart is fed through the mixer to three different broadcast sources. The mixer simultaneiously feeds the audio:
Radio Havana Cuba Interview
March
07, 2006
Bernie Dwyer: I am reminded of a great Irish song called "The West's Awake" written by Thomas Davis in remembrance of the Fenian Uprisingof 1798. It is about the west of Ireland asleep under British rule for hundreds of years and how it awoke from its slumbers and rose up against the oppressor. Could we begin to hope now that the South is awake?
Noam Chomsky: What's happening is something completely new in the history of the hemisphere. Since the Spanish conquest the countries of Latin America have been pretty much separated from one another and oriented toward the imperial power. There are also very sharp splits between the tiny wealthy elite and the huge suffering population. The elites sent their capital; took their trips; had their second homes; sent their children to study in whatever European country their country was closely connected with. [commas better than semi-colons in the preceding sentence.] I mean, even their transportation systems were oriented toward the outside for export of resources and so on.
Camille Paglia Takes On Academia
The humanities have destroyed themselves over the past 30 years…Through an obsession with European jargon and a shallow politicization of discourse, the humanities have imploded…There’s hardly a campus you can name where the most exciting things that are happening on campus are coming from the humanities departments…I think the entire profession is in withdrawal at the moment. This is a national problem. It’s not just a Harvard problem.
Camille Paglia, in a conversation with Open Source, 2/27/06
I like the attitude expressed by Prince-Ramus about going back to "first principles":
"Don't give us predigested solutions. Tell us what it needs to do, and let us figure out how to build it."
Go to the original article with pictures
Photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto discusses his work with Hirshorn Museum chief curator Kerry Brougher.
Here’s an amusing intellectual exercise; define performance art.
I tend to know it when I see it. I also know what it isn’t. It’s not theatre and it’s not acting. I’d even venture to say that performance art is the antithesis of acting.
A fairly standard definition is that performance art takes the structure of art making and uses it as a starting point. Performance art tends to use the artist body as a material or as a tool within an active art making system.
WHY AMERICA IS POLARIZED
Political analysts have been impressed lately by the polarization of the American public between "reds" and "blues". Eighty percent of our population has declared itself impervious to persuasion. Why has this happened? Why have political positions hardened while the pragmatic center has shrunk?
While the media speak of the new importance of 'moral values', as if this were some recent fashion trend that had just burst upon the scene, this 'red/blue' division is rooted in major historical changes--changes that are welcomed by half of our nation, appalling to the other half. Furthermore, this division is not simply an American phenomenon, but a global one, rooted in the most revolutionary cultural shift in the history of our species.
Consider these seemingly unrelated events:
In 1996 business writer E. E. Lawler found that 80% of all the companies he studied had some form of participatory management.
In 1996, for the first time, there were more visits by Americans to alternative practitioners than to traditional Western physicians.
In 2001 scientists began to consider the possibility that the "laws" of nature might not be immutable.
In 2002 lawyers argued that chimpanzees should be accorded legal status as persons.
In 2004, for the first time, more women than men applied to medical school, while women made up a majority of first-year law students and outnumbered male college students 56% to 44%.
In 2004, gay marriages became legal in Massachusetts.
All of these events would have been inconceivable fifty years ago. During this time we've seen social change taking place at a rate unprecedented in the history of the planet. And while many of the changes have had widespread popular support, they have also--especially when combined with the unrelenting pace of technological innovation--stressed our adaptive capacities. We've not only had to adjust to computers and email and cell phones, but also to the changing roles of women and minorities, the "sexual revolution", the decline of the nuclear family, the growth of the global economy, the ecological movement, and so on.
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