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[- Data Dérive
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By TreborScholz, Section review-a-rama
Posted on Wed Jan 7th, 2004 at 10:13:01 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Data Dérive; Angie Eng's Mental Mappings is an exhibition review in the context of Eng's New Media Art Residency at Art in General, New York City, October 28 to December 20, 2003>
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[- Terrorism, Viruses, Kiddie porn, and WI-FI
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By amy, Section Filter It Yourself!
Posted on Sat Jan 3rd, 2004 at 11:43:23 AM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Filtered through an alarmist-about-alarmists filter.
CNET lists viruses, intruders, and terrorists, in the same breath. Apparently inspired by their talk with the US Dept of Homeland Security. But wait - it's the CNET interviewer, not the government guy, who brings up Nimda et al as though they're relevant to terrorism... and reminds us that "the success or failure of the government's National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace hinges on private sector buy-in." There's already enough questions about what the alleged "terrorists" in Guantanamo Bay actually have done, without wondering if 16-year-old virus-writers are part of the mix. But is it governments, corporations, or both that are behind all this confusion? Lets look at some related incidents...
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[- IM, I Said...
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By amy, Section editors' corner
Posted on Mon Dec 29th, 2003 at 05:19:38 AM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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From time to time, I yack here about my mailing list and other electronic "push" communication withdrawal - i.e., I get overwhelmed by media that come to me, rather than letting me go to them when I want to (like weblogs, websites, etc.) On that note, Jakob Nielsen's thoughts on IM, Not IP (Information Pollution.) Although I agree with many of his sentiments, his proposed solution and conclusion leave me a bit uneasy. Should we predetermine what "hot topics" are of interest to us on a discussion group? Do we really want software to "protect users' time just as strictly as the most vigilant executive secretary protects a CEO's calendar"?
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[- Criminal artists
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By Aileen, Section Filter It Yourself!
Posted on Sat Dec 6th, 2003 at 09:54:38 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Filtered through admiration for a wonderful translation
"We want artists to work and we want artists to learn Dutch. We want Rotterdam to look like any other Dutch city but at the moment we have more unemployed artists and crime than anywhere else"
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[- Wohin mit dem Kochkurs?
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By GabrielPickard, Section whatever...
Posted on Fri Dec 5th, 2003 at 09:34:33 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Leider ist es jetzt schon etwas aus dem Zeitrahmen gefallen, aber ich bin "on a tight schedule" - vor allem in letzter Zeit viel am programmieren, aber hier ist mein Bericht zu unserm Projekt lieber-herr-koch.de (als E.A. Dobbs- Eintrag)
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[- Do opportunistic idealists make good politicians?
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By Aileen, Section question corner
Posted on Sun Nov 30th, 2003 at 07:04:51 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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In the midst of reading encouraging accounts of idealistic projects and conversations with friends about how many other women from our group feel the same need to "do something" that we have, a trivial little newspaper arrived in my household. Somewhere in the middle there was a small article about recently elected local politicians and their new responsibilities following local elections a few months ago.
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[- What's to be Been... Mr?
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By GabrielPickard, Section editors' corner
Posted on Fri Nov 28th, 2003 at 08:30:24 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Kenta Ohji, a philosopher involved in the (now-dormant) project NAM (New Associationist Movement), when i told him about my plans for the future, commented something like this: He said that he liked the way i based my plans on function, on what i wanted to do and achieve, instead of status and the role i would want to play. Well, that cheered me up. I was then 17 years old.
Now, three years down the road, the question what box to stick my head & shoulders into has nevertheless kept on nagging. I have even started considering professions (mostly induced by different concerned parties' propositions).. Only to wind up feeling quite uncomfortable about those boxes' inside.
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[- Discordia's new editors
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By TreborScholz, Section editors' corner
Posted on Thu Nov 27th, 2003 at 05:35:18 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Discordia welcomes new editors--
Nat Muller, Jennifer Nigg, Janet Owen, Gabriel Pickard, Joseph Rabie, and Sophia Rawlinson.
read more about them -->
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