maandag 30 april 2012
zaterdag 28 april 2012
Pirate Radical Philosophy
Pirate … from the Latin pirata (-ae; pirate)… transliteration of the Greek piratis (pirate; πειρατής) from the verb pirao (make an attempt, try, test, get experience, endeavour, attack; πειράω). … In modern Greek… piragma: teasing [πείραγμα] …pirazo: tease, give trouble [πειράζω].1
Much has been written about the ‘crisis of capitalism’ and the associated events known, for short, as the ‘Arab Spring’, ‘student protests’, ‘Occupy’ and ‘August riots’. Yet to what extent does our contemporary situation also pose a challenge to those of us who work ‘in’ the university – a challenge that would encourage us to go further than merely endeavouring to ‘just say “no”’ to the idea of universities operating as for-profit business in order to serve the economy, and demanding a return to the kind of publicly financed mass education policy that prevailed in the Keynesian era? What if we, too, in our capacity as academics, authors, writers, thinkers and scholars want to resist the continued imposition of a neoliberal political rationality that may appear dead on its feet but is still managing to blunder on? How can we act not so much for or with the student protesters, ‘graduates without a future’, ‘digital natives’ and ‘remainder of capital’ (protesting alongside them, accepting invitations to speak to and write about them and so on), but in terms of them?2 What if we desire a very different university to the one we have, but have no wish to retain or restore the paternalistic, class-bound model associated with the writings of Arnold, Leavis and Newman? While appreciating the idea that there is an outside to the university is itself a university idea, and that attempts to move beyond the institution too often leave it in place and uncontested, is it possible to take some impetus nonetheless from the emergence of autonomous, self-organized learning communities such as the Public School, and free textsharing networks such as AAAAARG.ORG (to name but two)? Does the struggle against the ‘becoming business’ of the university not require us, too, to havethe courage to try out and put to the test new economic, legal and political systems and models for the production, publication, sharing and discussion of knowledgeand ideas; and thus to open ourselves to transforming radically the material practices and social relations ofour academic labour? HERE
vrijdag 27 april 2012
donderdag 26 april 2012
woensdag 25 april 2012
dinsdag 24 april 2012
[IMG MGMT] What Relational Aesthetics Can Learn From 4Chan
Is it still necessary to define art by intent and context? The gallery world would have us believe this to be the case, but the internet tells a more mutable story. Contrary to the long held belief that art needs intent and context, I suggest that if we look outside of galleries, we’ll find the actions, events and people that create contemporary art with or without the art world’s label.
Over the past 20 years, the theory Relational Aesthetics (referred to in this essay as RA) has interpreted social exchanges as an art form. Founding theoretician Nicholas Bourriaud describes this development as “a set of artistic practices that take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context”[1]. In reality, art erroneously known to typify RA’s theorization hasn’t strayed far from the model of the 1960’s Happening, an event beholden to the conventions of the gallery and the direction of its individual creator. In her essay Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics, Claire Bishop describes Rikrit Tiravanija’s dinners as events circumscribed in advance, using their location as a crutch to differentiate the otherwise ordinary action of eating a meal as art[2]. A better example of the theory of RA succinctly put into action can be seen in anonymous group activities on the internet, where people form relations and meaning without hierarchy. MORE
maandag 23 april 2012
zondag 22 april 2012
At the action Crazy Lenya is Our President! held in the Kremlin embankment, Leonid Nikolayev with a blue bucket on his head climbed onto a fed’s black car and slid down. It was a protest against the illegal use of blue emergency lights by feds who don’t stop at a red light and kill people on the road with perfect impunity.
zaterdag 21 april 2012
vrijdag 20 april 2012
BREAKING: Anonymous Takes Down Formula 1 Website With DDOS Attack (Updating Live)
The hacker collective Anonymous has taken down the official Formula 1 website with a Distributed Denial Of Service (DDOS) attack. The group claims it is in response to increasingly violent protests in Bahrain ahead of this weekend's Formula 1 race. here
Can Artists Help Us Reboot Humanism in an Over-Connected Age?
Rhizome.org’s annual “Seven on Seven” conference isn’t really meant to have a theme beyond simply exploring the intersection of art and technology. Rhizome director Lauren Cornell plays yenta, matching various figures from the two fields who then brainstorm collaborations and build whatever prototypes can be whipped up in the very abbreviated 24-hours they actually have together (the teams first meet Friday morning, then talk, hatch an idea, and finally present on Saturday afternoon). It was notable, then, that at this year's conference — held April 14 at the New Museum — a theme did emerge organically: Quite a few of these pairs, in one way or another, were responding to a sense that the quality of mental experience was on the decline in our over-wired world. MORE
donderdag 19 april 2012
woensdag 18 april 2012
dinsdag 17 april 2012
maandag 16 april 2012
The Rejection Generator Project
Dear Writer,
We could tell from your delicate treatment of human motivation and deep insight into character that you are a wise and gentle soul. We have been dreading having to write to you and inform you that your prose is crap, you wouldn’t know a plot if it jumped on your toe and then headbutted you in the crotch, and you should buy all of the grammar and style books on the market and read them from the first page to the last (if only because that will prevent you from writing for a while).
That must have been painful for you to hear, but we feel so much better now.
With sympathy,
The Editors
zondag 15 april 2012
zaterdag 14 april 2012
vrijdag 13 april 2012
Anonymous Hacker AnonWormer Unmasked by Girlfriend's Cleavage Picture
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Василий Иосифович Джугашвили
...from the files of the Tsarist secret police in St. Petersburg, 1911.
donderdag 12 april 2012
woensdag 11 april 2012
dinsdag 10 april 2012
WHY DOES NOTHING PLEASE YOU?
[Picture: Background: 6 piece pie style colour split with images of a c++ editor, a terminal installing python, and the blue Microsoft error screen alternating. Foreground: a photo of the penguin which represents Linux. Top text: “DEBUGGING PROGRAM” Bottom text: “’WHY DOES NOTHING PLEASE YOU?’”]
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maandag 9 april 2012
zondag 8 april 2012
Watch Out, White Hats! European Union Moves to Criminalize ‘Hacking Tools’
The proposal is intended to create stiffer penalties across Europe for hacking and denial of service attacks, imposing a maximum sentence of up to five years for hacking into a site or using a botnet to flood a site with fake traffic.
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zaterdag 7 april 2012
Geometric Porn App
Geometric Porn App Preview Site from Luciano Foglia on Vimeo.
Geometric Porn App has been rejected by Apple Inc.
vrijdag 6 april 2012
donderdag 5 april 2012
woensdag 4 april 2012
Why We Love Sociopaths
My greatest regret is that I’m not a sociopath. I suspect I’m not alone. I have written before that we live in the age of awkwardness, but This text excerpted from Adam Kotsko’s Why We Love Sociopaths: A Guide To Late Capitalist Television, now available from Zero BooksThe New Inquiry Magazine, No. 3, Arguing the Web. a strong case could be made that we live in the age of the sociopath. They are dominant figures on television, for example, and within essentially every television genre. Cartoon shows have been fascinated by sociopathic fathers (with varying degrees of sanity) ever since the writers of The Simpsons realized that Homer was a better central character than Bart. Showing that cartoon children are capable of radical evil as well, Eric Cartman of South Park has been spouting racial invective and hatching evil plots for well over a decade at this point. On the other end of the spectrum, the flagships of high-brow cable drama have almost all been sociopaths of varying stripes: the mafioso Tony Soprano of The Sopranos, the gangsters Stringer Bell and Marlo of The Wire, the seductive imposter Don Draper of Mad Men, and even the serial-killer title character of Dexter. NICE READ
Netherlands Media Art Institute closes end of 2012
Press Release, 3 April, 2012. The Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk) is ceasing its activities as at 31 December 2012. The organisation in its present form will be terminated as a result of the announcement by the Ministry of Culture that the Institute will receive no further financial support after 2012. NIMk will of course try and preserve the knowledge and experience that it has built up over the past 35 years. With this in mind and in consultation with other organisations, NIMk is developing a number of plans in order to transfer its knowledge, mandate and networks, and thus secure these for the future.
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dinsdag 3 april 2012
An Essay on the New Aesthetic by Bruce Sterling
I witnessed the New Aesthetic panel at South by Southwest 2012. It was a significant event and a good thing to see.
If you know nothing of the “New Aesthetic,” or if you have no idea what “SXSW” is, you should repair your ignorance right away. Go peruse this:
http://booktwo.org/notebook/sxaesthetic/
READ Mr. STERLING FURTHER
If you know nothing of the “New Aesthetic,” or if you have no idea what “SXSW” is, you should repair your ignorance right away. Go peruse this:
http://booktwo.org/notebook/sxaesthetic/
READ Mr. STERLING FURTHER
maandag 2 april 2012
zondag 1 april 2012
Eugene's paintball sentry
Welcome to Project Sentry Gun, home to the most versatile sentry gun on the web! Now in use on six continents!
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