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[- Playing Stud on the Cultural Frontlines
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By MartinLucas, Section review-a-rama
Posted on Tue Jun 10th, 2003 at 07:28:20 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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The US Defence Intelligence Agency starts a national fad with a new deck of cards "Iraqi Most Wanted', while Ruckus responds with its own set of "War Profiteers"
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[- Secret Room
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By Aileen, Section discordia home improvement
Posted on Wed Jun 4th, 2003 at 06:47:49 AM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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[ED this was accidentally posted to EA Dobbs originally, so it is now being moved to Discordia Home Improvement]
who has been in the Secret Room of Discordia without any help??
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Submitted by wolfgangpreisinger
Posted on Mon May 19, 2003 at 8:14 AM DISCORDIA PACIFIC TIME
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[- Seeking agreement with our own opinions
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By Aileen, Section Filter It Yourself!
Posted on Tue Jun 3rd, 2003 at 08:20:35 AM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Filtered through a habitual propensity to approve of criticism that seems to suggest I made the right decision:
Quiet as it is on Discordia at the moment (despite the daily growing number of users), I would like to hijack a discussion taking place elsewhere, specifically because I want to filter it through my own habitual prejudices. The discussion is a result of questions that Brian Holmes posted to Nettime about Fascism in the USA?.
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By GeertLovink, Section question corner
Posted on Sun Jun 1st, 2003 at 12:47:41 AM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Monkeys-s-s Typing Is-s a Mess-s-s
LONDON, May 9 -- Give an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters, the theory goes, and they will eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare.
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By Aileen, Section discordia home improvement
Posted on Fri May 30th, 2003 at 12:09:47 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Discordia opened for testing by Inaugural Discordians on May 1st. Now, almost at the end of May, there are:
54 users
35 stories have been posted
10 announcements/essays have been posted
99 comments have been made.
There is continuous tweaking going on, in response to feedback from all the helpful people, who have communicated their experiences to us.
Thank you to everyone for your postings and responses so far, and we look forward to hearing more from you.
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[- Is there no escape from the Matrix?
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By Aileen, Section question corner
Posted on Sun May 25th, 2003 at 06:00:04 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Obviously, there is no escape for me personally, because I live with two members of what is presumably a major segment of the target audience for Matrix I&II - two male adolescent action film and computer game enthusiasts. For that reason, I have been enjoying reading the comments about the new film on Nettime and Bagasch, especially Erik Davis' article. Yesterday evening, though, I had a conversation with a neighbor that made me wonder how much point there really is to critical theoretical discussions about pop culture phenomena.
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[- What is the difference between igniting a discussion and posting an essay or announcement?
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By Aileen, Section discordia home improvement
Posted on Sun May 25th, 2003 at 02:21:12 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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If you have already posted something to Discordia, or even just thought about posting, you have probably noticed that there are two links in the menu box on the top right to choose from. As we have tried to explain in various places, such as the FAQ and the different pages for either posting a short text to ignite a discussion or posting an essay/announcement, this distinction reflects a specific intention on the part of the Discordia development group. How useful does this distinction appear to you?
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[- I'd Like to teach the World to Sing (via New Media Conference #5,844)
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By Rachel Beth Egenhoefer, Section whatever...
Posted on Fri May 23rd, 2003 at 04:20:22 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Here I am at yet another one of our favorite self-validating events- the ever present "New Media Conference". What better way to begin the momentous multi-day gathering, than with an ice breaker game! Our moderator has placed words into a hat. We are each to draw a word and use it in a sentence about the goals for the weekend, a sort of group manifesto using contrived words from the magicians hat... But here is my question, where did these words come from? The very words in which we are supposed to describe our selves, define ourselves, our goals, our objectives. Are these not contrived, preassigned, ordered from the new media dictionary via the man behind the curtain?
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