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[- What's the best way to be totalitarian in the tech age?
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By amy, Section question corner
Posted on Thu May 22nd, 2003 at 03:50:22 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Slashdot ran this story the other day about how in Korea, people posting to message boards are required to use their real first and last names, not nicks. That made me reflect on Trebor's recent story about Delta airlines, in which the culprit in governmental privacy invasion appears to be a corporation, not the government itself. This made me think...
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[- don't be shy!
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By amy, Section discordia home improvement
Posted on Sat May 17th, 2003 at 03:29:14 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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One the Grand Hopes we Discordant Developers have for Discordia is to break - or at least bend - the intimidation factor encountered on lists. We think the weblog format encourages informal, impromptu, sometimes brief conversational postings, and so we hope you will find that inviting. We also hope, with our weird overlapping sections, to invite discussion in a broad range of categories - so please don't feel limited to the style or subject matter of earlier posts! Even though we're not "officially" launched to the public yet, I see our user list growing by the day... So, new Discordants - please join in and post yer text-nibbles!
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[- Book Review: Metromarxism by Andy Merrifield
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By TreborScholz, Section review-a-rama
Posted on Tue May 13th, 2003 at 08:04:17 AM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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summer reading: Metromarxism by Andy Merrifield
A Marxist Tale of the City
(Routledge, 2002)
From Mr. Marx to Sir Engels to Herrn Benjamin, Monsieur Lefebvre and Debord to David Harvey and Marshall Berman. The author looks at these Marxist scholars and their relationship to the city.
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[- on expressionism and activism and ...
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By monicaross, Section whatever...
Posted on Mon May 12th, 2003 at 06:28:35 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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its quite difficult to know where to come in to discordia...so here goes... with some thoughts in response to a question i was recently asked by another artist and to trebor's and brian's discussion..." what did you do about the war?"
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[- The (Ir)relevance of New Music?
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By petertraub, Section review-a-rama
Posted on Sun May 11th, 2003 at 04:11:57 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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At a weekend-long new music festival at Stanford several weeks ago, I attended a couple of the concerts with two friends who really had no exposure to 'new music'. At the final concert, which was one of the centerpieces of the festival, we walked out during the intermission (they did not know that Sturgeon's Law must be taken into account at all such events :-) ). I didn't personally feel the need to leave as I have been working in this scene for several years now, but my friends just really couldn't connect to it...
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[- Turnschuhe und Bilder - Ware und Kultur?
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By HenrikSchrat, Section whatever...
Posted on Sun May 11th, 2003 at 11:33:38 AM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Eine Sache, die mir recht häufig im Kopf rumgeht, und gestern gerade bei einer Diskussion wieder hochkam
Ist von Adorno, dass Kunstwerke innerhalb der Kulturindustrie nicht mehr auch Ware sind, sondern nur noch Ware.Ich kann dem Meister der Kulturindustrie einfach nicht folgen. Vielmehr sehe ich in allem auch eine kulturelle Bedeutung, wie andersherum alles Ware sein kann.
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[- Collaboration and 'then some' /or/ Get me out of the 19thC
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By MathewKabatoff, Section whatever...
Posted on Sun May 11th, 2003 at 09:04:57 AM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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What does it mean to think of, articulate, or be artistic practice today? Up until recently I have had expressed anxiety about the medium and type of practice I have been engaged in, fretting about such things as 'the new' and my gesture produced in conjunction with 'the new' rather than the modes and mechanisms of production themselves. These modes and mechanisms of course are modes and mechanisms of multiplicity: of rhythm and chorus; of frightfully playful and directed collaboration, inside and outside of the frame.
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[- build-a-crime
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By amy, Section Filter It Yourself!
Posted on Sat May 10th, 2003 at 08:08:34 AM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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filtered through the lens of "anything a powerful political puppeteering - er uh - lobbying group deems a threat to their business can suddenly look like terrorism":
geert sent a link to us discordant developers to this story about how some governments are viewing weblogs as a new form of rebellion and acting accordingly. which prompted me to ponder, "imagine the trouble one could get into if caught blogging wireless!" which then led me to think...
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