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Subject: <nettime> announcer 034b From: announcer <announcer@simsim.rug.ac.be> Date: 15 May 1998 21:09:32 +0200 * * * * * Sender: owner-nettime-l@basis.Desk.nl Precedence: bulk NETTIME'S WEEKLY ANNOUNCER - every friday into your inbox calls-symposia-websites-campaigns-books-lectures-meetings send your PR to sandra.fauconnier@rug.ac.be in time! 0.......1........2........3........4........5........6 1...Vuk Cosic.............Information Weapon Contest 2...Stefaan Decostere.....WALKER ON-LINE 3...Josephine Berry.......Mute Magazine: NET POLITICS 4...POLYGRAPH.............POLYGRAPH 10 / call for papers 5...Cherie Matrix.........CONTEST AND CO-OPT 6...name.space............pgMedia Asks Feds to Open Domain Name Market ........1.............................................. From: Vuk Cosic <vuk@kud-fp.si> To: nettime-l@Desk.nl Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 00:10:40 CET Subject: Information Weapon Contest Join the Info Weapon Contest and Win the Information Weapon Award One of the current paradigms on 'war' is the solubility of the frontlines and territory in general. We want to see what happens with the weapons in such a situation. Within the context of this years Ars Electronica an independent international Jury has been invited to assign the prize (1000 US$) to the most outstanding information weapon with an accent on it's functionality, design and successfulness. We are looking for software or hardware tools that do not necessarily look like tools, and they can be made or found by somebody or something that didn't necessarily try to come up with a weapon. The (in-)visibility of today's info (anti-)wars is going to be specially investigated. This competition is posing the question what could info weapons look like, if they are not simply e-mail bombs, spam or regular propaganda and disinformation campaigns on the 'content' level. Are we only condemned to be passive consumers and protect ourselves against the hostile environments of info overload? Can we still act and attack? How about the art of information warfare? + The award can be divided in equal parts between the author of the weapon and the person that submits this weapon to the jury. Information weapons created during the last fiscal year will have advantage over weapons from previous times or historical periods. The Jury also wishes to distance itself from any usage of the term "terrorism" due to the lack of its clear definition. + Further reading: http://www.aec.at/infowar/NETSYMPOSIUM/ARCH-EN/msg0000 0.html Procedure: All submissions will be done by e-mail <weapon@aec.at>, and should contain the following: - weapon's name - contact of the author/submitter - 2k max description and explanation Deadline: June the 1st Jury members: Vuk Cosic (chair), Marko Peljhan, Josephine Starrs, Rtmark, Heath Bunting, Oliver Frommel, Natalie Jeremienko, Zina Kaye, Manuel de Landa (tbc) .................2..................................... Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 17:13:58 +0200 To: decoste@imaginet.be From: Stefaan Decostere <decoste@imaginet.be> Subject: WALKER ON-LINE Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: nettime@basis.Desk.nl Status: RO Dear Walker Fan, The PARTY is on AGAIN! MAY 15th : on-line BROADCAST your host is FOKKY : <sfauconn@eduserv2.rug.ac.be> from 8 p.m. till midnight local time (Brussels) consult : <http://www.partywalker.org/partybus> or via <http://www.nirvanet.com/live> or later on the cybertheater archives : <http://www.nirvanet.com/cybertheatre/archives> then : Click on EVENTS and go to PARTYBUS Live webcast from the Partybus provided by the CyberTheatre. <http://www.nirvanet.com/cybertheatre> the installation is open 4 days a week : each Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from noon till 8 p.m. the following PARTYBUS-parties and BROADCASTS on May 15, 22, 30. We hope to see you on at least one of the parties or at THE HEART OF BRUSSELS or read your mail reactions. 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Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 18:00:39 +0000 From: Josephine Berry <josie@metamute.com> Subject: Mute Magazine's NET POLITICS issue \- - - 1- - - / / \ 1 / \ / \- - 1 - -/ \ 1 //\\ 1 //\\ 1 ///\\\ 1 ///\\\ u t e - - -* - -\\\1///- - * - - - 1 \ / 1 \ / 1 \ / 1 \ / / \ /- - 1 - -\ / \ / 1 \ / /- - - 1 - - -\ LOAD up your Ammo Clips! BEEF up your Brain Muscles! DUST down your Bookshelves! Mute Magazine's NET POLITICS Issue is upon us at last In issue 11, out this August, we invite you to partake in defending, bending or rejecting the following issues (these are only suggestions): *Public Service Net Space: Social Democracy and the Information Economy *Name.Space: Robin Hoods in the Forest of Protocols? * Be(at)ing the Other On-line: the Dialogics of Power on the Network *Technologies 'R' Us: Genderquake and the Electronic Frontier *Micro-power publishing: Media Mutiny or Diffusion through multiplication? *Post-human subjects: Temping Agencies or Aping Matrices? *Data watch - the Innocent have Nothing to Fear In collaboration with Revolting, Manchester's temporary media lab, Mute is publishing a special issue on NET POLITICS. Coinciding with the themes of ISEA98 - Revolution/The Terror - it will place contemporary debates on the politics of information networks under the microscope. For writers' guidelines or any other information on contributing, please contact the editors at mute@metamute.com, on T: +44 (0)171 613 4743 or at our editorial address (see p. 2). Mute is produced on a no fees basis, but contributors will receive 5 copies of the magazine. N.b. deadline for contributions is the 18th June. Revolting is organised by Micz Flor and runs over August and September 1998 in Manchester and Salford University; further info: http://www.yourserver.co.uk/revolting ---------mute: 2nd floor, 135-139 Curtain Rd, LONDON EC2A 3BX. ----------------------------T: +44 171 613 4743/ F: +44 171 613 4052 ----------------------------------E: josIE@metamute.com/ W: www.metamute.com * * * * * we no longer have roots * * * * * we have bouffants we no longer have roots * * * * * we have bouffants * * * * * * * * * * we no longer have roots * * * * * we have bouffants we no longer have roots * * * * * we have bouffants * * * * * ...................................4................... Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 08:01:52 +0200 From: polygraph@duke.edu (POLYGRAPH) Subject: POLYGRAPH 10 / call for papers POLYGRAPH, an international journal of culture and politics, announces issue 10 entitled "Legislating Culture." <CONTENTS> Anotonio NEGRI "What Can the State Still Do?" Pierre BOURDIEU "On the Fundamental Ambivalence of the State" John FROW "Metacapital: A Response to Pierre Bourdieu" Florencia MALLON "Local Intellectuals, Regional Mythologies, and the Mexican State, 1850-1994: The Many Faces of Zapatismo" James FUJII "Internationalizing Japan: Rebellion in Kirikiri and the International Research Center for Japanese Studies" John SUNDHOLM "From A.G. Ingelius to _Borje Brast_: Legislating Finland-Swedish Identity" Brian MASSUMI "Requiem for Our Prospective Dead: Toward a Participatory Critique of Capitalist Power" <SUBSCRIBE/ORDER> A two-year subscription (two issues) is $15, $12 for students, and $30 for institutions. Individual copies of POLYGRAPH 10: LEGISLATING CULTURE are $10 each. Back issues are $10 each. For each order or subscription please add $2 postage; institutions add $4 postage; add $5 for international postage. Send to POLYGRAPH, Art Museum 104, Box 90670, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0670, USA. Polygraph Announces a call for papers for Issue 11: MARGINS OF GLOBAL CULTURE <CALL FOR PAPERS> Discussions of the "globalization of culture" have tended to focus on mass cultural products and formations which serve, ideologically and materially, the interests of multinational capital. But how are the processes of globalization imbricated with marginal rather than mass cultural formations--subcultures, cultural dissidents, artistic avant-gardes? New technologies such as the internet have enabled multidirectional flows of information creating hybridized marginal cultural formations. This issue seeks to bring different fields of research such as subaltern studies, subcultural theory, the political economy of globalization, and cultural anthropology into a dialogue to develop new perspectives on the sorts of cultural practices affected and enabled by globalization, as well as to potentially develop new "working hybrids" among the methodologies of these different fields of study. Topics could include: Fundamentalisms as subcultures Migrant workers' migrant cultures Indigenous/folk film and video Drugs: User cultures, criminal communities, transnational flows Anarcho-Capitalism Pidgins, creolizations, and the forging of linguistic communities Chicano/a and Latino/a subcultures in the U.S. Virtual communities Neo-tribalism and modern primitives New formations of indigenous identity and community Globalization of musical subcultures: Brazilian punk, French hip hop, etc. 'Zines, underground presses, and pirate radio Commodity localization and local appropriations of commodities Millenarianisms and new prophets Afrocentrism and other transnational nationalisms Deadline for papers is August 1, 1998. Send in duplicate to: POLYGRAPH, Art Museum 104, Box 90670, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA. POLYGRAPH is a paper journal and is published annually at Duke University. For more information please email polygraph@duke.edu or visit http://www.duke.edu/literature/pgf.html ............................................5.......... Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 23:37:00 -0600 From: Cherie Matrix <cherie@banff.org> Subject: CONTEST AND CO-OPT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 14 MAY 1998 CONTEST AND CO-OPT Dates: 25 - 31 May, 1998 Banff Media Security Department Banff Centre for the Arts Canada Subversives plan their next moves in Banff. The Banff Media Security Department is pleased to announce the forthcoming meeting "CONTEST AND CO-OPT" taking place over a 7 day period in the Canadian Rockies. "We regularly host meetings for the intelligence and policing communities here, so what better place to hold secure subversive conspiracies," Cherie Matrix. With the revolutionary potential of the internet now recuperated by institutional elitists and corporate fundamentalists, it is now imperative that the underground formulate possible new zones of contestation. The main thrust of discussions will be aimed towards the total destruction of property and representation, combined with topics including: - Democracy & formalism (artist vs context). - Stupid vs serious (the power of dumb). - Institution vs bedroom (elitistism vs antisocial). - Programming (machines/ events). - New media contestation possibilities. - Potential new media (biotech/...). - Professional vs amateur (work vs play). - New funding sources (data trafficking/ media mercenaries). Invited guests include: Alexei Shulgin, alexei@easylife.org, http://www.easylife.org Andreas Broeckmann, abroeck@v2.nl, http://www.v2.nl/east/ May N Eight, may98@irational.org, http://www.banff.org/biotech/ Josphine Stars, starrs@sysx.apana.org.au, http://www.icf.de/starrs/ Kathy Huffman, kathy@thing.at, http://thing.at/face/ Leon Cmielewski, leon@sysx.apana.org.au, http://www.icf.de/starrs/ Martin Schmitz, martin@vgtv.com, http://www.vgtv.com/ Natalie Bookchin, bookchin@calarts.edu, http://jupiter.ucsd.edu/~bookchin Peter Ride, peter@artec.org.uk, http://www.channel.org.uk/cover/ Rachel Greene, rachel@rhizome.org, http://www.rhizome.org Vuk Cosic, vuk@ljudmila.org, http://www.vuk.org Wolfgang Staehle, wolfgangsta@thing.net, http://www.thing.net During the meeting the visitors will be trained in team building activities such as rock climbing, cycling, canoeing and hiking. With kind Tactical Support from Radio 90FM, Banff, Canada. For further information please contact mailto:cherie@banff.org "Excellence in Publicity & Privacy" Banff Media Security Department Bunting, Heath L 832 S Schumaker Dr Apt 302, Salisbury, MD 21804-3025 Phone: (410)742-8511 .....................................................6 Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 13:03:04 -0400 From: pgp@pgmedia.net (name.space) Subject: pgMedia Asks Federal Court to Open the Internet Domain Name Market for Immediate Competition FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE pgMedia Asks Federal Court to Open the Internet Domain Name Market for Immediate Competition ________________________________________________________________________ Press release from 05-15-98 NEW YORK - On May 14, 1998, pgMedia, Inc. d/b/a/ Name.Space(sm), a NewYork-based registrar of Internet domain names, filed a preliminary injunction motion with the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, requesting that the Court prohibit Network Solutions, Inc. ("NSI") from continuing to deny pgMedia access to the Internet's "root zone file." This motion is the latest step in pgMedia's ongoing litigation with NSI over access to the root file, which by managing the part of Internet addresses known as top level domain names ("TLDs"), functions as the main "traffic cop" directing Internet communications and allowing Internet users to communicate with all other Internet users. pgMedia seeks to make available to the Internet community a variety of new and creative TLDs other than NSI's generic TLDs, i.e. .com, .org and .net. However, to provide consumers with choices, pgMedia and other competitors need the ability to place their TLDs in the root zone file. So far, NSI, which has exercised monopoly control over the root zone file as a result of a government contract, has refused to do so, even though no agency of the U.S. has been authorized by Congress to restrict the number of Internet TLDs, and even though the addition of virtually unlimited TLDs is technically feasible and would not harm the functioning of the Internet. In its motion, pgMedia invoked a well-developed and long-standing antitrust principle known as the "essential facilities" doctrine, prohibiting a monopolist that controls a vital means to competition from denying reasonable, nondiscriminatory access to competitors. It is the same principle that the government used in 1984 to require AT&T to allow other telephone companies to access AT&T's lines, eventually providing consumers with choices in long-distance service. "This is a classic 'essential facilities" antitrust case." said Glenn Manishin, litigation counsel for pgMedia. "There can only be one 'root" for the Internet, or else the very essence of the seamless interconnectivity of the Net is destroyed. We believe that if the Court applies these settled precedents, it must rule in favor of pgMedia and order that the Internet be opened to an unlimited number of new and innovative TLDs. NSI is the only game in town, so the law says that they cannot refuse to deal with competitors like pgMedia." Addressing the Clinton Administration's ongoing policy review of domain name issues, pgMedia argued in its motion that the U.S. lacks authority under International law to restrict the number of TLDs. If pgMedia prevails on its motion, the ability of users to communicate and advertise through Internet addresses will improve significantly. Both US and global consumers, for the first time, will be free to register a variety of new TLDs without being cut-off from the rest of the Internet. For instance, all Internet users will be able to communicate with pgMedia's customers who currently employ such practical TLDs, as .sports, .law or .computers and use of communicative TLDs, like for.president and beyond.hope. "Open competition is critical to the growth, creativity and success of the Internet," said Paul Garrin, President of pgMedia. "We expect a favorable decision in this case, which will be at the forefront of many court decisions showing that antitrust principles are still alive and well in the technology era." For more information, please contact Glenn Manishin at (202) 955-6300 or glenn@technologylaw.com, or Henry Perritt, Jr. at (312) 906-5010 or hperritt@kentlaw.edu Name.Space website can be reached at http://TIME-TO.MOVE-OVER.COM Preliminary Injunction Document is at http://Name.Space-Slams.Com (this address should work whenever as NSI updates it database) --- # distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@desk.nl and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@desk.nl