this saturday my friend Valery (together with Eric & Merijn) are hosting a mini conference called ‘Migrant Media Metropole – New labour struggles in the global city‘ at the Balie in Amsterdam. Migration and media-activists gather with theorists and labour organizers to discuss and share best practices in the fight against precarity and insecure labour […]
speaking about silliness of the struggle against terrorism, it seems that a bunch of people in Boston have teamed up to celebrate the one year anniversary of the aqua team hunger force LED ads bomb scare in the only sensible way, that is by putting up lots of LED art up on the streets, walls […]
just finished watching the BBC documentary (from 2004) ‘the power of nightmares – the rise of the politics of fear‘ by Adam Curtis. This three part mini series compares the rise of the American Neo-Conservative movement and the radical Islamist movement, making comparisons on their origins and noting strong similarities between the two. Curtis argues […]
i think i bought my last CD (‘Original Pirate Material‘ by the Streets) in 2002 only to rip it to my computer and then to leave it in a train running along the river rhine from Cologne towards Karlsruhe (in the hope that someone else would find it and enjoy it). I have not bought […]
not sure if all of them are used to get persons across the US/mexican border, but ABC news has a little item (‘Fake FedEx trucks, when Drugs absolutely have to get there‘) on what they call ‘cloned vehicles’: Savvy criminals are using some of the country’s most credible logos, including FedEx, Wal-Mart, DirecTV and the […]
so i have written about Europe being the mediterranean northern bank on this blog before. when i flew to South Africa last week i actually had a chance to have a look at the mediterranean south bank for the first time: tripoli as seen from the window of LH572 en route to Johannesburg Technorati Tags: […]
scene: South African Airways flight SA265 from Johannesburg to Munich somewhere over Zimbabwe: me: mam do you have any leftover meals? flight attendant: chicken or pasta? me: chicken please flight attendant: 10 dollar (US) me: i only have euros flight attendant: then i’ll take five Technorati Tags: airtravel, future, southafrica
We also do not have any robots left on our streets and little traffic so we don’t have the kind of traffic jams I saw in Jo’burg during a power cut. [Zimbabwean journalist writing on how to deal with frequent blackouts in the Sunday Independent] no, this is not from the future, nor is not […]
(i suggest to listen to dizzee rascals ‘sirens’ while reading this post). so I am in Johannesburg (or some elite gated community called ‘Sandhurst‘ that tries hard not to be part of the rest of the urban fabric) for less than two hours and I am already not used to a lot of things: physically […]
so Felix (make sure to check out that splash page!) has posted an really good review of Steal This Film II to the nettime mailing list. If you still need a reason/excuse to download and watch STFII i suggest reading his review: This experience reinforces the main point of the film: file-sharing – a technologically […]