9/11 tragedy pager intercepts.
Nov 25, 2009 General
http://911.wikileaks.org/ (thanks Tiziana Terranova)
From 3AM on Wednesday November 25, 2009, until 3AM the following day (US east coast time), WikiLeaks is releasing over half a million US national text pager intercepts. The intercepts cover a 24 hour period surrounding the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington.
The messages are being broadcast to the global community “live”, sychronized to the time of day they were sent. The first message is from 3AM September 11, 2001, five hours before the first attack, and the last, 24 hours later.
Text pagers are usualy carried by persons operating in an official capacity. Messages in the archive range from Pentagon and New York Police Department exchanges, to computers reporting faults to their operators as the World Trade Center collapsed.
The archive is a completely objective record of the defining moment of our time. We hope that its revelation will lead to a more nuanced understanding of the event and its tragic consequences.
An index of messages released so far is available here.
Twitter users should refer to #911txts. We will give status updates at twitter.com/wikileaks.
Observations should be posted here.
Last 12 intercept collections:
Time index 2001_09_11-05_35 to 2001_09_11-05_39.
Time index 2001_09_11-05_30 to 2001_09_11-05_34.
Time index 2001_09_11-05_25 to 2001_09_11-05_29.
Time index 2001_09_11-05_20 to 2001_09_11-05_24.
Time index 2001_09_11-05_15 to 2001_09_11-05_19.
Time index 2001_09_11-05_10 to 2001_09_11-05_14.
Time index 2001_09_11-05_05 to 2001_09_11-05_09.
Time index 2001_09_11-05_00 to 2001_09_11-05_04.
Time index 2001_09_11-04_55 to 2001_09_11-04_59.
Time index 2001_09_11-04_50 to 2001_09_11-04_54.
Time index 2001_09_11-04_45 to 2001_09_11-04_49.
Time index 2001_09_11-04_40 to 2001_09_11-04_44.
Agamben sur Tiqqun
Nov 10, 2009 General
http://www.dailymotion.com/videox929gpwww.contretemps.eu
Le philosophe Giorgio Agamben présente Contributions à la guerre en cours de Tiqqun, aux Editions La Fabrique, un livre qui rassemble trois textes écrits il y a près de dix ans : “Introduction à la guerre civile”, “Une métaphysique critique pourraît naître comme science des dispositifs” et “Comment faire ?”.
Tags: 2009, Editions La Fabrique, français, Giorgio Agamben, Tiqqun, Video
Slovenian Philosopher Slavoj Zizek on Capitalism, Healthcare, Latin American “Populism” and the “Farcical” Financial Crisis
Oct 27, 2009 General
Dubbed by the National Review as “the most dangerous political philosopher in the West” and the New York Times as “the Elvis of cultural theory,” Slovenian philosopher and public intellectual Slavoj Žižek has written over fifty books on philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history and political theory. In his latest book, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, Žižek analyzes how the United States has moved from the tragedy of 9/11 to what he calls the farce of the financial meltdown. [includes rush transcript]
JUAN GONZALEZ We continue on the subject of the financial crisis with a man the National Review calls “the most dangerous political philosopher in the West.” The New York Times calls him “the Elvis of cultural theory.” Slovenian philosopher and public intellectual Slavoj Žižek has written over fifty books on philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history and political theory. His latest, just out from Verso, is called First as Tragedy, Then as Farce. It analyzes how the United States has moved from the tragedy of 9/11 to the farce of the financial meltdown.
Žižek’s latest offering, also excerpted in the October issue of Harper’s Magazine, opens with the words, quote, “The only truly surprising thing about the 2008 financial meltdown is how easily the idea was accepted that its happening was unpredictable.” He goes on to recall how the demonstrations against the IMF and the World Bank over the past decade all protested the ways in which banks were playing with money and warned of an impending crash. They were met with tear gas and mass arrests.
AMY GOODMAN: The message, he writes, was, quote, “loud and clear, and the police were used to literally stifle the truth.”
Well, Slavoj Žižek addressed a full house at Cooper Union here in New York City on Wednesday night and joins us now in our firehouse studio.
Welcome to Democracy Now!
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Tags: 2009, 9/11, Crisis, history, philosophy, political theory, Populism, psychoanalysis, Slavoj Žižek, theology, United States
1989
Sep 3, 2009 General
The Shōwa period ends with the death of Emperor Hirohito (aka Emperor Shōwa) after 62 years and 14 days of his reign in Japan. Akihito becomes Emperor of Japan, beginning the Heisei period the following day.George H. W. Bush succeeds Ronald Reagan as the 41st President of the USA. Berners-Lee started at CERN, Geneva and writes his “www proposal”. It should be the origin of the world wide web. In Alaska’s Prince William Sound the “Exxon Valdez” spills 240,000 barrels (11 million gallons) of oil after running aground. Slobodan Milo?evi? becomes president of Serbia. The Tiananmen Square massacre takes place in Beijing. Solidarity’s victory in Polish elections is the first of many anti-communist revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe in 1989. Elections in the European Union. First entry of the German rightist extremist’s party “Die Republikaner” in the parliament. The Hungarian government opens the country’s western borders to refugees from the German Democratic Republic. The Hungarian Republic is officially declared by president Mátyás Sz?rös (replacing the Hungarian People’s Republic). East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to travel freely to West Germany for the first time in decades. Bulgarian Communist Party leader Todor Zhivkov is replaced by Foreign Minister Petar Mladenov. The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces they will give up their monopoly on political power. Chile holds its first free election in 16 years. Operation “Just Cause” is launched in an attempt to overthrow Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega. After a week of bloody demonstrations, Ion Iliescu takes over as president of Romania, ending Nicolae Ceau?escu’s communist dictatorship. Constitutional amendment in Poland.Soviet war in Afghanistan: The last Soviet Union armored column leaves Kabul, ending 9 years of military occupation.After 44 years, Estonian flag is raised to the Pikk Hermann Castle tower.The Berne Convention, an international treaty on copyrights, is ratified by the United States.The Ayatollah Khomeini dies in Iran. France celebrates the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution. Nintendo releases the GameBoy portable video game system. The South African general election, 1989 (the last under apartheid). Brazil holds its first free presidential election since 1960. This marks the first time that all Ibero-American nations, excepting Cuba, have elected constitutional governments simultaneously.Velvet Revolution. Richard C. Duncan introduces the Olduvai theory, about the collapse of the Industrial Civilization.
Tags: 1989
E’ morto Franco Volpi
Apr 15, 2009 General
Franco Volpi, una vita per la filosofia
Addio al grande interprete di Heidegger
Franco Volpi, 57 anni, ordinario di Storia della filosofia a Padova, è morto ieri all’ospedale San Bortolo di Vicenza, dove era ricoverato da lunedì pomeriggio in seguito a un incidente stradale. Era stato travolto da un’auto a San Germano dei Berici, mentre si trovava in sella alla sua bici. La conferma del decesso è giunta in tarda serata dal nosocomio vicentino, che dalle 15 aveva fatto partire le sei ore di osservazione per la dichiarazione di morte cerebrale. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: 2009, Franco Volpi, italiano, Martin Heidegger
Virtual Entity
Apr 3, 2009 General
Virtual Entity is a philosophical research starting from the assumption that the concepts of authenticity, ownership, uniqueness and seriality are, within the digital domain, no longer valid whereas they are not redefined.
The practical aspect of this research is a new software being specifically developed to release, license, and catalogue digital files. This system, transforming the traditional approach towards metadata, is based on the idea that any file is an independent creation living its own life and experiencing various levels of transformation and progressive generation (of meaning, shape, and entities) in the course of its virtual existence. This way digital resources, interpreted as cultural units, are considered the main actors of the web.
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Tags: Authenticity, english, Ownership, Seriality, Uniqueness, Virtual Entity
Artwork or not work? – Why art is sacred and the key to sociability
Feb 26, 2009 General
Erik Empson
Egon Schiele: “The work of art is sacred, too.”
E.F Schumacher: “…there can be nothing sacred in something that has a price.”
The awe which may have once greeted any one excellent work of art, is today more likely to be generated by the price it fetched when sold than anything to do with the work’s visual affect. How do we account for this apparent reversal?
Art, because of its uniqueness, and because it is the result of irreducible, complex human labour, never fitted into the Marxian conception of value and work – based as it was on factory production and its particular type of discipline. But in escaping that dreary paradigm, artists themselves have long struggled over the problem of authenticity and the commodity form and in so doing sought to challenge the separation between art and life.
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Tags: 2008, Art, english, Erik Empson
Trapped in Amber: Angst for a Reenacted Decade
Feb 16, 2009 General
21 February – 22 March 2009
Opening reception and catalogue launch: Friday 20 February 2009, 7 p.m.
Special performance by Magnus Monfeldt: Friday 20 February 2009, 8 p.m.
Trapped in Amber curators in conversation with the artists: Sunday 21 February 2009, 3 p.m.
Artists: Daniel Garcia Andujar (ESP), Hamdi Attia (EGY/USA), Bodil Furu (NO), Assefa Gebrekidan (ETH), Iman Issa (EGY/USA), Mahmoud Khaled (EGY), Magnus Monfeldt (SWE/NDL), and Harwood/Wright/Yokokoji (UK)
Curated by: Bassam El Baroni and Helga-Marie Nordby
The exhibition is part of the project Africa in Oslo initiated by The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, which also involves Stenersen Museum, Oslo Museum: International Cultural Centre and Museum, Oslo Fine Art Society and Kunstnernes hus (more info below)
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Arte y crítica
Feb 3, 2009 General
Traducción del francés de Saúl Kaminer.
Por lo general, admitimos como dogma que la función del arte consiste en expresar, y que la expresión artística descansa sobre una certidumbre. Ya sea el pintor o el músico, el artista dice. Dice lo inefable. La obra prolonga y rebasa la percepción vulgar. Lo que la segunda vuelve trivial y deja de lado, la primera, coincidiendo con la intuición metafísica, lo capta en su esencia irreductible. Ahí donde el lenguaje común abdica, el poema o el cuadro hablan. Así, la obra, más real que la realidad, consuma la dignidad de la imaginación artística que se erige en saber de lo absoluto. Incluso descalificado como canon estético, el realismo conserva todo su prestigio. De hecho sólo lo negamos en nombre de un realismo superior: el surrealismo es un superlativo.
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Tags: 1994, Art, Critic, Dostoïevski, Emmanuel Levinas, español
Daniel García Andújar in der Weserburg
Jan 19, 2009 General
24. Januar – 22. Februar 2009, Weserburg – Museum für moderne Kunst / Bremen
Postcapital Archive (1989-2001)
„Mauer/Bremen”, 2008-2009
„Mauer/Bremen“ ist ein neuer, speziell für Bremen konzipierter Teil des multimedialen Projektes „Postcapital. Archive 1989 – 2001“ des spanischen Künstlers Daniel García Andújar. Es thematisiert in besonderer Art und Weise die Ereignisse um 1989 und ihre bis heute andauernden Folgen. Read the rest of this entry »
Für sein „Postcapital“-Archiv hat García in den letzten zehn Jahren mehr als 250.000 Dateien (Texte, Audiodokumente, Videos, etc.) aus dem Internet zusammengetragen, die die tief greifenden Veränderungen, die sich in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten weltweit auf gesellschaftlicher, politischer, ökonomischer und kultureller Ebene ereignet haben, dokumentieren.
Tags: 2009, Anne Thurmann-Jajes, Berlin Wall, Bremen, Exhibition, Weserburg
