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FW: Building Security

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wade tillett on Wed, 31 Oct 2001 02:49:15 +0100 (CET)

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<nettime> FW: Building Security

—–Original Message—– From: Sandra Barrera [mailto:sbarrera@pky.com] Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 4:26 PM Subject: Building Security Tighter security is now a fact of life for most downtown Office buildings in the wake of the terrorist attacks on September 11th. Parkway Realty Services immediately took the necessary precautions (i.e. extra roving security guards, closing Stetson Street turnabout, require photo ID’s for all deliveries, and the right to search all deliveries at the dock and packages coming in or out of the building). We have requested that all tenants have photos on file for our card access system. An additional card reader has been installed at the East end of the security desk. In response to your concerns and requests, commencing Thursday, November 1, 2001 card key access will become effective 24 hours a day, seven days a week for all tenants of the 233 North Michigan Avenue Building. The following are the procedures that will be required to enter and leave the building: * All tenants and their employees must swipe their access card when entering the Lobby of the building at any time. There are two card readers; the reader on the West side of security desk is for floors 13-22, the reader on the East side is for floors 2-12 and floors 22-30. * Signs will be posted at the escalators and at both readers. * All visitors and tenants without card access MUST GO TO THE SECURITY DESK TO SHOW PHOTO ID AND SIGN IN/OUT. * If you are expecting visitors and know in advance, please email 233@pky.com or fax (312) 819-4408 with the name of your visitor and date. * Prior to 7am and after 6pm Monday through Friday and all weekend everyone will be required to swipe their card upon entering and exiting the building. Elevator card access will be in effect for these hours. * Messengers must leave their photo ID with the guard and sign in/out. After hours – tenants will be contacted by phone and required to pick up all deliveries at the Security Desk. * We will have a guard stationed at each elevator bank to assist you during this transition period. We hope this will be a temporary measure, but in the meantime we would appreciate your cooperation. Let’s all work together for the safety and security of every person that works in or visits this building. Very Truly Yours, PARKWAY REALTY SERVICES, LLC Janice L. Holzman Property Manager # 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

moral colonization

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wade tillett on Sun, 23 Sep 2001 20:05:26 +0200 (CEST)

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<nettime> moral colonization

The binary structure of Bush’s address 9-21-01 ‘Terror unanswered can not only bring down buildings, it can threaten the stability of legitimate governments.’ —————————————————– EITHER you are with us Us The civilized world a limited utopic space Freedom Freedom of religion, speech, vote, assemble and disagree Justice God (is not neutral between freedom/fear) Progress Pluralism Tolerance Liberty Democratically elected government A way of life within which civilians are to remain. ‘What is expected of us?’ ..to live your lives and hug your children. return almost to normal go back to our lives and routines ———————————————————- OPERAND (the ‘/’ between ‘either/or’) The governmental black box which determines the binary division and distributes justice under a cloak of unquestioned power Dramatic strikes visible on TV Covert operations, secret even in success and unquestioned methods whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done. and extends this power to all aspects of all regions of the world This is the world’s fight. Every nation in every region now has a decision to make Help of police forces, intelligence service and banking services around the world. Drive them from place to place until there is no refuge or no rest. and at home in every arena Comprehensive national strategy to safeguard Law enforcement additional tools it needs Strengthen intelligence capabilities Comprehensive national strategy Office of Homeland Security for an undetermined amount of time Lengthy campaign Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated. ————————————————————- OR you are with the terrorists. Terrorists The dark threat of violence Terror Fear Cruelty Enemies Repressing Murder Fringe Blasphemy Perverts Hate Pretenses to piety Heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century Sacrifice human life Radical vision Will to power Fascism, Nazism, totalitarianism Global terror network Freedom itself is under attack (i.e. the utopic space defined above) who are ubiquitous and immanent Thousands of these terrorists in more than 60 countries Threatening people everywhere —————————————————————- # 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

Re: ::batteries, buddies & other binaries::

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wade tillett on Fri, 21 Sep 2001 17:46:00 +0200 (CEST)

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Re: <nettime> ::batteries, buddies & other binaries::

i heard a preacher on the radio last night, comparing this to the interim between the crucifixion and the resurrection. (wasn’t christ’s death was supposed to be a destruction of the binary?) this was an attack on the economy of the binary, the simulated discourse/oligopoly/utopic space, and at its most basic level – the equivalence and economy of justice. the most flustering to the recreation of the binary being that the enemy, for a brief interval, was without a face. (although a face was quickly produced.) the (new/old) binary of us/them, imploded, without a defined other. how could justice be accomplished without the other? how could economy be preserved? the binary was quickly re-created/re-distributed by the media to one of us/them, good/evil, past/future, attack/vengeance, crime/justice. whether or not justice *can* be achieved, the *perception* of the achievement of justice will be reinstated. bombs will be dropped in order that the perception of justice be restored, that the economy of the binary be restored, that an internal (utopic) space be re-created and opposed to an exterior space. “What we seem to have, then, is an apparent subject, an impersonal pseudo-subject, the abstract ‘one’ of modern social space, and – hidden within it, concealed by its illusory transparency – the real ‘subject’, namely state (political) power.” (lefebvre, production of space 51) there are thus two economies at work, the economy which creates the utopic space (of commerce/freetrade/america) and the economy _within_ the utopic space. these are intimately connected, but through a sort of filter in which the effects, the distribution, to the exterior of the space are hidden from the ‘choices’ and participants within the utopic space. the construction of space can be said to now be accomplished by a ‘pluralistic’ method – i.e. distribution is now delivered to specific points, rather than area to a degree. but the space of economy remains, is recreated, expanded. in fact, scarcity and an economy of have and have-nots, 0/1, binary is intentionally created and expanded (IP being a current example). while a ‘pluralistic’ multi-pronged method may now be employed instead, it is still employed to contain the binary ‘other’ – a singular, defined other who does not participate within the rules of the space, who has not been assimilated, innoculated, and contained within the ‘pluralistic’ space of utopia. pluralism exists only within the utopic space. its borders are always binary, as the basic economy by which it is created is binary, that of justice. it was the space created between the towers which was the real force of their binary structure. a space within space. a utopic space. and this utopic space was breached. hence virilio’s endocolonization. the ‘re-creation’ (expansion) of the utopic space. and at the definition of that space, power. “… this action, although it is not desirable, is necessary because the final objective of the insurrection is a free and democratic society, WHEREBY ACTS OF FORCE ARE NOT NECESSARY.” (central intelligence agency, psychological operations in guerrilla warfare, at textz.com)(a guide-book on how to create a space of simulated democracy) // also related, post “091401” http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0109/msg00130.html # 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

++ digested aftermath [x6]

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nettime’s_post_traumatic_manageress on Sat, 15 Sep 2001 17:36:05 +0200 (CEST)

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<nettime> ++ digested aftermath [x6]

tell an event by its cover david turgeon <david.t@steam.ca> going and stopping samantha krukowski <samantha@rasa.net> story on spooky sleeve provoces net moralists.. roya// <roya@girlfish.net> Re: [TW] FW: Another Gulf of Tonkin Resolution? “Ivo Skoric” <ivo@reporters.net> 091401 wade tillett <super89@telocity.com> Re: <nettime> adjust and proceed snoble@mac.com —————————— Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 21:04:39 -0400 From: david turgeon <david.t@steam.ca> Subject: tell an event by its cover from amazon.com: Top Sellers in Books: 1. Nostradamus by John Hogue, Nostradamus Propheties 2. Twin Towers by Angus Kress Gillespie 3. The New Jackals by Simon Reeve ~ david —————————— Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 22:03:04 -0500 From: samantha krukowski <samantha@rasa.net> Subject: going and stopping someone out there please tell me something to read something to make something to inhale something to see that will get my pulse normalized enough that will make my blood flow i seem to be swamp bound in some black goo where creativity is not even a possibility where sitting without sometimes the strength to light a candle seems the only option i picked up de certeau’s the practice of everyday life it sounded good found the chapter called walking in the city and was demoted to stillness again it opens “seeing manhattan from the 110th floor of the world trade center” sk – — Dr. Samantha Henriette Krukowski Co-Director, ACTLab/Convergent Media Department of Radio-Television-Film University of Texas at Austin 78712 www.actlab.utexas.edu 512.471.4222 synapsestudio www.rasa.net/samantha —————————— Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 16:08:35 +0100 From: roya// <roya@girlfish.net> Subject: story on spooky sleeve provoces net moralists.. Salaam nettimers. Below the story on The Coups spooky album cover as published by London based website AMMOCITY on Wednesday. The mainstream media in their role as moral watchdogs picked up on the story in an instance, and ammocity has been flooded with threats, abuse and and… ever since. What is most disturbing are reports from various people whose provider (AOL.. others?) refused connecting to ammocity. Hate to be a scaremonger but I have a gut feeling that blacklisting websites is something that is likely to happen. Did you receive any reports on strange, similar looking incidents? take care of each other, roya* ** Spooky sleeve precedes blasts by three months TWIN TOWERS ALBUM COVER The album cover for hip hop group The Coup manages to even out-weird the quotes from the Nostradamus hoax doing the email roundssince Tuesday. Designed more than three months ago, the original cover for ‘Party Music’ shows group member ?Boots? Riley holding a detonator while the World Trade Centre explodes behind them. If you examine the actual explosions you?ll notice that they are around the same relative height on each of the towers as the real explosions. There?s been no word from 75 Ark Records, The Coup?s label, on the subject, but on their website the artwork has already been changed. If you want to see the spookiness you can link to the address http://www.ammocity.com/twintowers – — (this is todays update on the story by ammocity..) Hip hop crew The Coup have responded to the extraordinary similarity between their planned cover art for their album ?Party Music? and the attack on the World Trade Centre. In a statement, frontman Boots Riley expressed regret for the ?uncanny similarity? between the cover, completed in June this year, and the events of September 11. He also stated that ?the original intent of the cover was to use the World Trade Centre to symbolise capitalism and was not supposed to be realistic in its depiction.? Talking of the attack he explained, “all life is precious and this tremendous tragedy is by no means taken lightly by The Coup. This is a very unfortunate coincidence and my condolences go out to the families and friends of the victims.” The album will be released on November 5 with completely new artwork. —————————— Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 16:36:07 -0400 From: “Ivo Skoric” <ivo@reporters.net> Subject: Re: [TW] FW: Another Gulf of Tonkin Resolution? This is true – we are in contants with several people from Bosnia and from Serbia – who worked in financial district area – they survived either the war in Bosnia or the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia – and they are all frightened that the war came after them. Some of them are actually in need of counseling, because they don’t believe this is over now. It is also interesting how primary instinct of somebody who was once a victim of war is not to wish for revenge and retribution, but for peace and reconciliation. Those who see this recent attack on the US as a quid-pro-quo for NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia are usually not those who were running for shelters in Belgrade, but those who were then, as they are now, behind their computer terminals safely, somewhere in the non- descript parts of the U.S. ivo Date sent: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 15:11:56 EDT Send reply to: Tribunal Watch List <TWATCH-L@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU> From: “Nalini Lasiewicz (twatch-l)” <LasiewiczN@AOL.COM> Subject: Re: [TW] FW: Another Gulf of Tonkin Resolution? To: TWATCH-L@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU In a message dated 9/13/2001 11:42:35 AM Pacific Daylight Time, FBOYLE@LAW.UIUC.EDU writes: > According to the facts in the public record so far, this was not an act of > I don’t know about that, Francis. NYC looked like Sarajevo for a while there. It still does downtown. The victims, traumatized and frightened, wouldn’t quibble with semantics. To them, war has come to America. Can you help me to understand why, in the legal sense, this is not considered an act of war? What are the characteristics missing? Hope you have time to answer. Regards, Nalini Lasiewicz Lasiewicz Foundation Los Angeles —————————— Date: 14 Sep 2001 15:18:59 -0700 From: wade tillett <super89@telocity.com> Subject: 091401 and thus, the internal discourse, the discourse within and between the confines, between the towers is interrupted, destroyed. within an implosive absence, a sucking of air, a gasping for breath. and this is the strategy which cannot be accepted. and thus, the absence is filled with the act of absence. the event is dissipated through radical proliferation. a strategy of containment through appropriation. a dismantling through absorption. the absence is filled with image. we are merely within, between, temporary, intermediate. through a constant replay of images, looped the beginning, overtly / repetitiously / necessarily tied to the promised end. the loss of control tied to the regaining of a greater control. the other conquered by the self. the evil dominated by the good. a new equation, a new discourse: ‘the destruction of internal discourse yields unity.’ the aggression upon discourse places itself as the opposite pole as an object, objectless. for this is the real strategy of the act of terror: a destruction of controlled discourse. a failure of order, of control, of division, of distribution. the implosion of the internal equivalence of economy. an absence without end. an effect without cause. an enemy without other. an impotent vengeance and a sterile justice. in this, the awkward present without justice, without enemy, without retribution, all eyes are averted from this, the gaping and unfillable absence. —————————— Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 19:33:51 -0700 From: snoble@mac.com Subject: Re: <nettime> adjust and proceed Hi Damian, Thanks for the response. In all fairness I must say that the production company decided not to remove the buildings. What they did instead was have me reposition the image so that the WTC buildings were not as readily recognizable on one of the sequences. On the other sequence they replaced the shot with another New York shot that did not have the WTC in it. Nonetheless it was not a fun session dealing with the clients and the situation at large. missing hallo psw : ov7o734o7o437 requires – msp. opengl. tzzt +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ nn: what is the dream the dream that feels that fleshes out emotion turns the transcendental into tangible and visceral vibrant even perhaps or soft soft too a means (though subtler) towards touch a dream of or to touch as if touching were the way the only way to maintain a space reality to capture particle of time or, more clearly, a moment +? +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Pirates attack US research ship off Somalia Pirates attack US research ship off Somalia Pirates attack US research ship off Somalia Pirates attack US research ship off Somalia Pirates attack US research ship off Somalia Pirates attack US research ship off Somalia Pirates attack US research ship off Somalia Pirates attack US research ship off Somalia Pirates attack US research ship off Somalia Pirates attack US research ship off Somalia Pirates attack US research ship off Somalia Pirates attack US research ship off Somalia Pirates attack US research ship off Somalia Pirates attack US research ship off Somalia Pirates attack US research ship off Somalia Pirates attack US research ship off Somalia Pirates attack US research ship off Somalia Regarding U.S.A. nationalistic tendencies….I myself have a very difficult time understanding the prevailing sentiment. The government had declared a national day of prayer and flag waving for today. I live in Los Angeles. Relative to the population at large I saw very very few flags being displayed…and based on what I was seeing on TV regarding flag waving elsewhere in this country I am confused ….in comparison I saw an enormous amount of Laker flags last month when the local basketball playoffs occurred. Thanks for the website reference. shannon > From: Damian Abbott <damian.abbott@cwcom.net> > Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:27:17 +0100 > To: sn <snoble@mac.com> > Subject: Re: <nettime> adjust and proceed > > > > sn wrote: > >> Greetings, >> >> Let me describe what I do for financial gain: >> > > Hello > > Shannon, I’m very interested to know what the outcome was from your meeting. > Also, what was their problem with the images: was it just continuity; fear of > causing offence; or did they want the movie to have that “we just shot it > yesterday” feel when it hits the nations cinemas (or even more cynically, was > it > “Hell, it ain’t there anymore, get used to your new skyline….”?) > > > Had a cruise around a few message boards to guage America’s mood and got to > say, > from a British perspective, American patriotism scares the shit out of me on a > normal day, but…. Whatever, you’ll probably know a lot more about the > subject > of the following link, but thought maybe you’d be intersted: > > http://www.were-here.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=88956 > > cheers > > Damian > Inventory > http://www.inventory.mcmail.com > > —————————— # 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

Re: question regarding text-filtering (.gif as .txt with semi-

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wade tillett on Thu, 31 May 2001 23:50:31 +0200 (CEST)

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Re: <nettime> question regarding text-filtering (.gif as .txt with semi-colon at beginning of file)

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open-source: leveraging the power of speculative production ca

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wade tillett on 9 Apr 2001 08:59:09 -0000

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<nettime> open-source: leveraging the power of speculative production capital

similar to ibm backing linux, mit proposes to put course content online with ‘OpenCourseWare.’ as with ibm, the open standards system is being used to leverage production capital. i.e. mit is leveraging its research (production) with its education mode. OpenCourseWare serves as an advertisement for increasing production capital. the president is not worried about enrollment because the power is in the production. at the same time, reliance on the traditional hardware(ibm)/degree(mit) is preserved and extended. open-source is not seen as a threat to brand-name, to hardware production, nor to the education legitimacy process of the status quo. the patents, the degree, are still created. they are used as an element of the production discourse. yes, you could claim to have taken the courses online, you could take the open-source tests even. you could even be certified (degreed) by some third-party vendor. but what is your connection to production capital? patents, degrees, hardware, are after-all mainly to increase shareholder confidence, these are back-end and end-user commitments which are by no means disregarded or unprofitable, but which are an essential part of leveraging power, dollars, confidence, to the front end: to a belief in a *future* production, to an increasing operating, production, research budget based on a general public/peer attitude of future production potential. intellectual property is thus a sort of status-builder. yes, much money is made by increasing the patent enforcement. but this enforcement serves to continue the general subversive myth that power lies in ownership. that is, ownership (or ‘non’-ownership) is leveraged to utilize and increase current advantages of production resources. the product is guarded as something of value in order to facilitate further production. the product (be it television, newspaper, mp3, vhs, or education) is distributed (all the better if you can get people to pay for the distribution channels… pay for the hardware, tv, vcr, computer, degree, operating system, but it works as well if it is gpl’d or open-source, so long as the author/producer is preserved) in a manner which increases the power of the product’s producer through increasing confidence in their production capability. the content of a newspaper is an advertisement for the newspaper’s continued and future ability to produce. produce what? its own continued and future ability to produce. the product offers a certain position, a certain audience. no one just sits back and makes money off their ‘intellectual property’ product – the whole business is in facilitating and leveraging a production *possibility*, a perceived *potential*. > http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2001/ocw.html MIT President Charles M. Vest has announced that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will make the materials for nearly all its courses freely available on the Internet over the next ten years. He made the announcement about the new program, known as MIT OpenCourseWare (MITOCW), at a press conference at MIT on Wednesday, April 4th. “I have to tell you that we went into this expecting that something creative, cutting-edge and challenging would emerge. And, frankly, ***we also expected that it would be something based on a revenue-producing model*** — a project or program that took into account the power of the Internet and its potential for new applications in education.” … “OpenCourseWare looks counter-intuitive in a market driven world. It goes against the grain of current material values. ***But it really is consistent*** with what I believe is the best about MIT. It is innovative. It expresses our belief in the way education can be advanced — by constantly widening access to information and by inspiring others to participate,” said President Vest… President Vest commented that the idea of OpenCourseWare is ***particularly appropriate for a research university such as MIT***, where ideas and information move quickly from the laboratory into the educational program, even before they are published in textbooks. # 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

Re: IBM bites bigtime

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wade tillett on 9 Apr 2001 08:57:56 -0000

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Re: <nettime> IBM bites bigtime

Tuesday, April 03, 2001, 10:59:38 AM, spornitz@pangea.ca wrote: > from the IBM annual report: > http://www.ibm.com/annualreport/2000/flat/toc/2_3_1_intro.html >> > So, we’re going to invest $1 billion in Linux, and we’ve dedicated > 1,500 programmers to enable every IBM hardware and software > product for Linux. Our strategy is to accelerate its adoption as a > platform that can support heavy-duty, enterprise workloads-such as > those already in production with customers like weather.com, Shell > International Exploration and Production in the Netherlands, and > Telia, Scandanavia’s largest telecommunications company. We think > that, at the end of the day, the operating system that provides the > most flexibility to customers is the one that is going to end up > winning. We’re voting with our customers on this one. We’re betting a > big part of IBM’s future on Linux. also from the IBM annual report: http://www.ibm.com/annualreport/2000/flat/toc/2_4_2_flash3.html “For the eighth straight year, IBM earned more patents than any other company (more, in fact, than our eight closest competitors combined). By year end, fully one third of those patents had made their way from the lab to the marketplace?and were at work powering our own products or licensed to others. IBM’s total intellectual property portfolio generated more than $1.5 billion in income in 2000.” http://www.ibm.com/annualreport/2000/flat/toc/2_2_7_leader.html “Mills: Thinking customers today understand that you can’t implement a transformed e-business enterprise unless you get the infrastructure underneath it running. They also know they need a partner that can look across all these processes and see how to put them together. Infrastructure is going to be a winning play for us this year. Elix: For us, outsourcing is back strong. We cracked the market in Asia?in a way, we created the market in Asia. Then there’s e-sourcing, and the business transformation that underpins all of the infrastructure and hardware and software changes. That holds tremendous opportunities for growth.” # 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

seattle: (a)moral colonization

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http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9912/msg00215.htmlreplies:http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9912/msg00221.htmlhttp://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9912/msg00229.html wade tillett on Wed, 29 Dec 1999 21:18:35 +0100 (CET)

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<nettime> seattle: (a)moral colonization

what we should keep in mind about the wto protest in seattle isthat it was a wto protest in seattle.that is, not only the wto, but also the wto protest, representedfirst world interests. specifically, it represented americaninterests. the protest serves as an extension of power throughthe simulation of conflict. what i mean is that the wto and theprotest both operate within a system of first world expansioninterests, and this expansion is accomplished through aspectacle of conflict. am i saying that people should not protest,should be silent? absolutely not. what i am saying is that whenwe protest we must have an acute awareness of how thisprotest will be used. the wto negotiations ‘collapsed’, but thereis more than one result of this conflict. these results are whatwe need to examine and anticipate.what are the results for the corporations?the continued operation under the existing rules of the wto. thecontinued operation under governments in their existing form.an expansion of interests through self-regulation, concurrentwith industry deregulation in the name of competition. ‘thisderegulation, by allowing insurance, banks, and brokers tooperate under one roof, therefore decreasing their overheadcosts, will allow savings to be passed on to consumers.’ doesanyone believe this? industry deregulation is simply a symptomof corporations more powerful than governments. deregulationallows corporations to operate on a scale larger thangovernments. mega-conglomerates of media and financialinstitutions are necessary in order to preserve americaninterests through the extension of corporate power based in theunited states. remember that the cold war was an economicwar, the spoils of which are economic colonization.deregulation allows for the massive deployment of propagandaand products on an international scale. yeah, you can send acouple hand-crafted wooden chairs to russia through yourweb page but who would want them. they could make those forthemselves. the products and services which makes the unitedstates a superpower are the products and services whichprovide a capital investment which no one else can match. thisis the reason for deregulation, to ensure unmatched corporatecapital bases. the united states is the world bank, brokeringinvestments and taking a cut through the use of unmatchedfunds. the united states no longer needs a weapons war to draineconomies of their wealth. american interests are strongenough worldwide to provide the backbone of economicinfrastructure. what are the essential industries of an americanbased corporate colonization? media and finance. industrieswhich have both been heavily deregulated since the end of thecold war. the government won the cold war through thestrength and extension of a global american economy. butgovernment colonization is frowned upon these days. luckily,and not by chance, it is also unnecessary for continuedamerican colonization. colonial expansion is now afforded tocorporations under the banner of free trade. the institutionswhich the government relied upon for its wealth during the coldwar are now claiming the power which they gave. its kind oflike what the united states always does, give weapons to theguys they believe will further their interest and then crush themwhen they turn on the us because they finally figure out the uswas only using them to further american interests. but thegovernment can not continue the expansion of an economicwarfare without weapons. the american government has metits ‘moral’ (financial) limit. or has it?.capitalism and democracy have been bundled into the phrasedemocratic capitalism and sold as if any restrictions oncorporations are restrictions on our freedom to choose and,therefore, democracy. ‘global capitalism is inevitable and this isgood because democracy will follow.’ is this true? what are thechoices which are not being presented to us? did we all lose thecold war? (fooled for the last time by the either/or). capitalismis based on growth, what happens when it has fully extendeditself? will this ever happen? can governments controlcorporations larger than themselves? can people controlcorporations through their buying power if they are informed?how could people be informed if the media is what we need tobe informed of? is a desire for information simply the extensionof an information economy? does a belief in first worldeducation necessarily extend the fundamental capitalistic beliefin a relationship between wealth and knowledge, and thereforea ‘you get what you deserve’ value system? is not aninformation economy based on massive data mines financed bycorporate capital? – the information which informationhave-nots possess is the information on their self – theirbuying habits, their desires, their sizes and health, their protestsand weaknesses, their recorded entity, their objectificationwith which they can be limited. their bank account. we areconsumers eagerly lined up for personalization, security, andprosthetics so that we may be strip mined of our information,tied to our reification and therefore bankrupt.what are the results for the protesters?was this really a victory for the protesters? where is thecounter-plan? the structure which is to take place after therevolution?there is the issue of united states environmental laws beingoverturned by the wto inside the united states, but to limit thedispute to this would be nationalist and protectionist. there arelarger more global issues such as human and labor rights,environmental pollution, non-democratic governments. theseare all good issues to be concerned with, however what itresults in is the expansion of the first world beyond a unifiedvision of capitalism into a unified vision of a pseudo-christianpseudo-democratic capitalistic belief system. the continuedexpansion of first-world countries as the moral police andtruth-makers of the world. (be careful what you wish for.) whydo you think that the protest in seattle got so much mediacoverage? why do you think clinton was so eager to hop on thebandwagon? it is an inflation of interests. beyond free trade wehave moral trade. the conflict yields a governmental, moral,social, and cultural expansion. more (a)moral colonization.manifest destiny.are we really up to this? are our morals worth passing along?(the only form of regulation we could attain would be entirelycorrupt, what with trillions of dollars at stake.) can we pretendthat we do not have overly populated jails and housing projects,high murder rates, the death penalty, a miserable education andfoster care system for our children, an extreme and wideninggap between the rich and poor, as well as environmentalpollution and consumption of most of the world’s resources?we do need our government to protect us from corporations.corporations do not represent any form of society, welfare, orcommunity. government is our strongest weapon againstcorporations. but we must be careful what sort of power wegive to our government also. we must protect our rights withouttrampling over everyone else’s. does the expansion ofcorporations have to mean the expansion of our moral system?we need to examine our own democracy and the belief thatdemocracy is alive and well because of our freedom to choosea product. where the power structure lies is not in what youchoose, but in the choices that have been presented to you. thethings not listed on the menu are quickly dismissed asnon-choices, choices already weeded out by supply anddemand. ‘democratic choices’ which have already been made.these are the choices we must look at. choices likenon-ownership, community ownership, public ownership,elective ownership, pulsating ownership, revolvingownership…. choices like modified capitalism,information-based capitalism, regulated capitalism, welfarecapitalism… choices like elective democracy, electivecitizenship, consumer rights… i am not saying these are theanswers, but i am saying that there must be options other thanthe american form(s) of democratic capitalism. these formsmust be allowed to exist. this world can not support a worldwhich consumes (resources, governments, people) the waythe united state does. do we really think that new forms ofgovernments, of society, can ever sprout out of the unitedstates? we must encourage new forms. we must limit theexpansion of american profiteering , but we also must limit theexpansion of the united states ad other countries as moralpolice. economic colonization must include moral colonization,or else we have amoral colonization. is this colonizationinevitable? if so, how can it be modified, limited, changed?we need to examine our goals. we must understand what theresult will be, what will be left with when we do not attain ourgoals. (after all, this is why communism doesn’t work). that is,we have to make clear goals which account for their failure.an internet that promotes non-commercial interests andsolidarity:http://www.assises.sgdg.org/motion-assises99-en.htmlunited states bill of rights:http://lcweb2.loc.gov/const/bor.htmlunited states declaration of independence:http://lcweb2.loc.gov/const/declar.htmlunited nations bill of rights:http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.htmlthe electronic frontier and the bill of rights:http://www.eff.org/pub/Legal/bill_of_rights_online.paper# 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

Re: EXPLICIT TEXT

Posted on by wade tillett

http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0002/msg00213.html original http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0002/msg00205.html http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0002/msg00209.html wade tillett on Mon, 28 Feb 2000 20:43:02 +0100 (CET)

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Re: <nettime> EXPLICIT TEXT

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until the text becomes ‘ produces ‘ the left side with us see.

Posted on by wade tillett

http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0011/msg00014.html  wade tillett on 2 Nov 2000 17:31:34 -0000

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<nettime> until the text becomes ‘ produces ‘ the left side with us see…

I was wondering how much text degrades as it is put into a translator. Asan experiment, I have entered this text into babelfish and had ittranslate from french to english and from english to french until the textbecomes ‘stable.’ Let’s see…Je me demandais combien de texte dégrade pendant qu’il est mis dans untraducteur. Comme expérience, j’ai écrit ce texte dans le babelfish etl’ai fait traduire de français-anglais et d’anglais-français jusqu’à ceque le texte devienne ‘ gamme de produits. ‘ voyons…I wondered how much text degrades while it is put in a translator. Likeexperiment, I wrote this text in the babelfish and translated it theFrench-English one and the English-French one until the text becomes ‘line of goods ‘ let us see…Je me suis demandé combien de texte dégrade tandis qu’il est mis dans untraducteur. Comme l’expérience, j’ai écrit ce texte dans le babelfish etl’ai traduit le français-anglais et l’anglais-français jusqu’à ce que letexte devienne ‘ ligne de produits ‘ nous a laissés voir…I wondered how much text degrades while it is put in a translator. Likethe experiment, I wrote this text in the babelfish and translated it theFrench-English one and the English-French one until the text becomes ‘product line ‘ let to us see…Je me suis demandé combien de texte dégrade tandis qu’il est mis dans untraducteur. Comme l’expérience, j’ai écrit ce texte dans le babelfish etl’ai traduit le français-anglais et l’anglais-français jusqu’à ce que letexte devienne ‘ produit ‘ laissé à nous voient…I wondered how much text degrades while it is put in a translator. Likethe experiment, I wrote this text in the babelfish and translated it theFrench-English one and the English-French one until the text becomes ‘produces ‘ left with us see…Je me suis demandé combien de texte dégrade tandis qu’il est mis dans untraducteur. Comme l’expérience, j’ai écrit ce texte dans le babelfish etl’ai traduit le français-anglais et l’anglais-français jusqu’à ce que letexte devienne ‘ produit ‘ à gauche avec nous voient…I wondered how much text degrades while it is put in a translator. Likethe experiment, I wrote this text in the babelfish and translated it theFrench-English one and the English-French one until the text becomes ‘produces ‘ on the left with us see…Je me suis demandé combien de texte dégrade tandis qu’il est mis dans untraducteur. Comme l’expérience, j’ai écrit ce texte dans le babelfish etl’ai traduit le français-anglais et l’anglais-français jusqu’à ce que letexte devienne ‘ produit ‘ du côté gauche avec nous voient…I wondered how much text degrades while it is put in a translator. Likethe experiment, I wrote this text in the babelfish and translated it theFrench-English one and the English-French one until the text becomes ‘produces ‘ left side with us see…Je me suis demandé combien de texte dégrade tandis qu’il est mis dans untraducteur. Comme l’expérience, j’ai écrit ce texte dans le babelfish etl’ai traduit le français-anglais et l’anglais-français jusqu’à ce que letexte devienne ‘ produit ‘ le côté gauche avec nous voient…I wondered how much text degrades while it is put in a translator. Likethe experiment, I wrote this text in the babelfish and translated it theFrench-English one and the English-French one until the text becomes ‘produces ‘ the left side with us see…Je me suis demandé combien de texte dégrade tandis qu’il est mis dans untraducteur. Comme l’expérience, j’ai écrit ce texte dans le babelfish etl’ai traduit le français-anglais et l’anglais-français jusqu’à ce que letexte devienne ‘ produit ‘ le côté gauche avec nous voient…I wondered how much text degrades while it is put in a translator. Likethe experiment, I wrote this text in the babelfish and translated it theFrench-English one and the English-French one until the text becomes ‘produces ‘ the left side with us see…Je me suis demandé combien de texte dégrade tandis qu’il est mis dans untraducteur. Comme l’expérience, j’ai écrit ce texte dans le babelfish etl’ai traduit le français-anglais et l’anglais-français jusqu’à ce que letexte devienne ‘ produit ‘ le côté gauche avec nous voient…I wondered how much text degrades while it is put in a translator. Likethe experiment, I wrote this text in the babelfish and translated it theFrench-English one and the English-French one until the text becomes ‘produces ‘ the left side with us see…# 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

Re: Napster Hurts Free Software

Posted on by wade tillett

http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0005/msg00078.html original http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0005/msg00057.html (this is a long thread, all replies not listed here)  wade tillett on Thu, 11 May 2000 19:18:40 +0200 (CEST)

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Re: <nettime> Napster Hurts Free Software

“On the whole, you find wealth much more in use than in ownership.”aristotleWe have been told ownership is the basis of capitalism. The other basisis services. (Goods and services.) Of course, these lines are not soclearly drawn. A movie is a good, but is paid for per viewing as if itwere a service. The service part of a movie is the infrastructure. Amovie theater, projector, and large screen, which people do not have thecapital to match. Then, when vcr’s came out, there was a huge controversy about being ableto copy movies. Once the physical infrastructure, in this case a vcr, agood easily associated with our ideas of ownership, became readilyavailable and affordable, the use that this good provided remained thebasis of capital. There were/are, some meager attempts at making it sothat tapes could not be copied through physical and coded mechanisms, buton the whole, these are ineffective. And yet people still rentvideotapes. So how is mp3 different from vhs? The fact is, consumers are never content with what they own. This is howvideotapes continue to prosper, by the continual production of new moviesconcurrent with a continual increase in consumption. Movie producers wantpeople to have vcrs because people with vcrs want new movies for theirvcrs. You give away the goods which make people want futureservices/production. But the internet represents a loss of control ofdistribution (or so it seems). Just like vcrs were a loss of control ofdistribution (or so it seemed). Or is it simply the simulacrum of a loss of control of distribution? Remember how apple did so bad and microsoft did so good and ibm tried tomake the vcrs? The power structure is in the standard/code/infrastructure. The power tobe harnessed from this standard is in the production for a continuallyincreased consumption. The power is in the production/distribution offuel fueling consumption. “If you ‘take’ my idea,” writes Lawrence Lessig in his book Code, “I stillhave it. If I tell you an idea, you have not deprived me of it. Anunavoidable feature of intellectual property is that its consumption, asthe economists like to put it, is ‘non-rivalrous.’ Your consumption doesnot lessen mine. Ideas, at their core, can be shared with no reduction inthe amount the ‘owner’ can consume.” In fact, ideas, at their core, increase the amount the ‘owner’ canconsume. Ideas, like fire, consume more and more. It is in theproduction of new ideas and services for consumption where money and poweris made. The consumer must not ever be content with the ideas which hehas acquired. This is the whole point of advertising, massiveadvertising. And if a ‘grassroots’ movement for increased consumption, such as mp3’s,fuels the fire, so much the better. The de-centralization of distribution leads to a centralization ofproduction. Entire industries are de-regulated in order that they canproduce that which can only be produced with unmatched capital. Withvcr’s, any independent movie-maker could cheaply produce and distributetheir own movie, right? But it is the movies produced with unmatchedcapital for production and advertising which everyone watches. So themusic industry, or the news industry, or the publishing companies, pretendthat it is the end of their power because it is the end of their controlof distribution. And they use this argument to say that it is ok if theyhave mega-mergers because now ‘anyone’ can distribute. This argument isused for all sorts of industry de-regulation, such as the 1996 telecomact. All the while at+t is buying up every cable company they can find,so they can charge for usage of infrastructure. Huge software companies and movie and music producers do not really wantto stop ‘illegal copying’ because this copying increases the overallconsumption of their product. It is free advertising. The money ‘lost’to what was already produced is more than gained in future production. Stocks are the perfect example. It isn’t the actual usage or distributionof the product which determines price, but the anticipated futureproduction, made possible by this anticipation and the increase in stockprices and overall capital base. So how are we manipulating the idea of ownership for capitalism? By looking at consumers with a straight face and telling them how awful itis that they are consuming your product for free, that the consumer reallywon this one and got to own something without paying for it, while yourstock and capital base for advertising and production go through the roof. You give them your product because it increases your power of production.(A great salesman makes you think you are ripping him off.) Corporations are continually creating an infrastructure for consumption. In one of the greatest marketing schemes ever, the consumer paid for theconsumption infrastructure. People actually bought vcr’s. A device whichsits in the home ‘useless’ unless consuming new production. And now, oh no!, people are downloading mp3’s for free! (The music industry feigns its alarm as it positions itself for thegreatest increase in consumption of new production ever.) Ownership of anything, physical or intellectual, only exists in our mind. Ownership is only an idea. We associate this idea with certain objects orthoughts. There is no ownership, only consumption. # 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