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Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 23:19:47 -0400 Reply-To: [email protected] Originator: [email protected] Sender: [email protected] Precedence: bulk From: Osterhase <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Operation Osterhase Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mime-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by listproc.thing.net id XAA18412 Status: RO X-Status: Back to the Future, or The BBS Strikes Back! http://www.thing.net Parts of the universe disappear, empires fall, presidents get caught, web sites get de-funded, but The Thing goes on! Yes, the new and improved ThingConnector 3.0 BBS is here! Our in-house developed "community server/ messaging" software caters to all your dubious needs for realtime communication, as well as messaging in all the new ThingThreads, like Radar, Nettime, Rainer's Reading Seminar, Almost (A)Live from LA, InfoWar, and Thingist. 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List-Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> X-Url: <http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/> X-Pop-Info: 00011072 00000292 Sender: [email protected] X-Mime-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by smtp1.xs4all.nl id MAA03378 <I cut out all the non-star-marked articles ... (i.e. those available for paid subscribers only) ... if you want the entire text, send an email to [email protected] - fokky> -- LE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUE _________________________________________________________________ Le Monde diplomatique english edition April 1998 edited by Wendy Kristianasen LEADER Neo-fascism * by Ignacio Ramonet Much has been written about the crisis of the left which followed the events that brought the post-war period to a close. But not enough has been said about a similar collapse of the right. In France, there has been a failure of policies leading to a massive loss of confidence and an explosion of social ills. With the dangerous results that were seen on 20 March. http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1998/04/01leader.htm Translated by Ed Emery IMMIGRATION, INTEGRATION AND EXPLOITATION Unemployment hits Southeast Asian migrant workers * by Solomon Kane and Laurent Passicousset The South East Asian crisis has made victims of several million immigrant workers. They are the first to pay the price of mismanagement by the governments that invited them and of the carelessness of the companies that employed them. Yet the countries of the region continue to compete with each other to export unskilled labour and increase their foreign currency revenues. http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1998/04/06asia.htm Translated by Malcolm Greenwood SEEN FROM THE UNITED STATES France, an unforgivable exception * by Thomas C. Frank The US press boasts of the importance it gives to the facts. Yet the media's treatment of international affairs often serves merely to demonstrate the benefits of the American way of life and the head-in-the-sand nature of those who refuse to follow it, notably France. The left's electoral victory and the government's refusal to follow in the footsteps of Washington's would-be Gulf warriers have added to the media's complaints about this most vexatious nation. http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1998/04/08frank.htm Original text in English A DOUBLE CRISIS Bloodshed and bargaining in Kosovo by Jean-Arnault Derens and S�bastien Nouvel The elections of 22 March 1998 have seen the crisis in Kosovo enter a new phase. Although the elections were "illegal" and many had called for them to be boycotted, there was a huge turnout. Ibrahim Rugova was re-elected "president" and his Democratic Alliance of Kosovo (DAK) gained a majority in "parliament". This outcome is in keeping with the negotiations that Serbia is apparently willing to embark on. However, fresh outbreaks of violence and the extreme right's involvement in the Belgrade government leave a question mark over the future. http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1998/04/10kosovo.htm From integration to rebellion * http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1998/04/11koso2.htm Translated by Julie Stoker VISIONS OF A NEW SOCIETY Jobs: it's all only make-believe * by Anne-Cecile Robert The United States and United Kingdom are constantly praising the advantages of work flexibility, claiming that it creates jobs, while, they say, the rigid continental European system "prefers" unemployment. Looked at more closely, however, the British approach is less than exemplary. Quite apart from often fudging the figures and ignoring demographic data, it represents a severe step backwards in terms of wages and social welfare. http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1998/04/12robert.htm Translated by Francisca Garvie (*) Star-marked articles are available to every reader. 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Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1998 02:04:09 -0500 To: [email protected] From: Bram Dov Abramson <[email protected]> Subject: Videazimut: Virtual Conference Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by tao.ca id CAA19738 Sender: [email protected] Precedence: bulk Reply-To: [email protected] Virtual Conference: The Right to Communicate and the Communication of Rights 11 May - 26 June 1998 Videazimut is an international NGO that brings together independent video and television organizations and practitioners from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America around an agenda for the democratization of communication -- an essential component of sustainable development and democratic society. 1998 marks the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In its declaration of principles, Videazimut aligns itself with a growing consensus on the right to communicate as a fundamental human right. We are therefore holding a Virtual Conference from May 11 to June 26, 1998, aimed at generating and disseminating fresh thinking on communication and human rights. Held in conjunction with the International Development Research Centre (Canada) and the Canadian International Development Agency and with the assistance of meep! media, this Virtual Conference is our contribution to the community of events marking the UDHR�s 50th anniversary. You are invited to take part in the Virtual Conference. Participants are asked to join one of five working groups over a 5-week period. In each working group, 1-3 short papers will be circulated each Tuesday morning, forming the basis for the following week�s discussion. Discussion will take place over e-mail -- filtered through moderators to avoid information overload -- supplemented by a WWW resource with conference papers and archives of the discussion. Participants will receive *no more than* two e-mail digests daily. A weekly summary will be posted each Monday afternoon, for those who have not been able to keep up, before passing to the next topic. The working groups: (1) legal perspectives (2) institutional perspectives (3) gender perspectives (4) cultures of globalization: perspectives (5) civic education and public memory: perspectives. A plenary session will happen during the final week. Further details, including speakers, will be found at our web site: <http://www.PanAsia.org.sg/conf/videaz>. You can also e-mail Bram Dov Abramson, who is acting as coordinator, at <[email protected]>. Our web site will be open as of FRIDAY, 17 APRIL. A second announcement will be sent at that time. The Virtual Conference�s official languages are English, Spanish, French. All participants may submit their comments in any of these languages, with the help of a volunteer translation team. ...................................4................... From: micz flor <[email protected]> Subject: CRASH MEDIA - call #2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 12:42:47 +0100 -------====###====------- _______ __ / ___ \____________ _____| |__ / \ \/\_ __ \__ \ / ___/ | \ \ \____| | \// __ \_\___ \| | \ \________/|__| (______/______\___|__/ _____ ___ __ / \ ____ __| _/|__|____ / \ / \_/ __ \ / __ | | \__ \ / | \ ___// /_/ | | |/ __ \_ \____|____/\_____\_____| |__(______/ C R A S H M E D I A #2 Where Media Reaches its Critical Mass http://www.yourserver.co.uk/crashmedia/ call for contributions -------====###====------- !*!*!*! Issue 2's 'Extra Special' section: !*!*!*! !*!*!*! !*!*!*! !*!*!*! MEDIA & ETHNICITY !*!*!*! Beyond the Electronic Frontier - a Wilderness? Transistor Culture/Cultural Transistors Coffee-Code-Coda Penny Papers - Media Spaces in the Semiopolis Mutiny on the Mouse Pad Galleries Without Walls Set Top Semtex 'Disorienting Rhythms' for MTV Dervishes The New Obedience: Unbundling Consumer Tactics My Mate Murdoch Not the 9 o'clock Views Trans-Asia Express All the Fun of the Glare Cornershops for A-Centred Living -------====###====------- IN BRIEF Crash Media is bracing itself for the launch of its second print issue - another shotgun publishing escapade. Crash Media is a publication with a split personality; part tabloid newspaper and part website, complete with discussion threads and a low-interference editorial policy. [Feel free to enter the online debate at any moment and be prepared to find your statement in print.] Right now we are calling for contributions for the next print issue to be released as in the middle of May. *.gif *.txt *.wav *.ra *.doc *.pic Deadline for contributions: 30th of April '98 !!! Crash Media is (looking at) independent media practice; taking media criticism off the bookshelf and stacking it on the flyer table. Find Tech/Specs on CM and contributions below. -------====###====------- !*!*!*! Issue 2's 'Extra Special' section: !*!*!*! !*!*!*! !*!*!*! !*!*!*! MEDIA & ETHNICITY !*!*!*! Issue 2 will also include the following permanent sections(->Medium Roast, ->Culture Club, ->Under The Needle, ->Access Denied, ->Balzac Nation, ->Strangeways). Contributions in many guises required: deep undercover analyses, sub-cutaneous cuts, bi-lateral dissections, polemics for the hard of reason, trinkets for the virtual mantelpiece, eye-sores for the foot-sore, nectar for the hive mind, befuddlement for conspiracists, personal highlights and urban low-lights. In other words: articles, logos, interviews, artwork, reviews, literature, listings, cartoons and info-blips. We favour text within the 500 to 800 word limit - and we envy the capacity to make a strong point with 200 words! Scans should be 300dpi and stuffed, send as attachments (MAC or PC) - stamp-based mail is just as good. Currently we are not able to pay contributors. Every contributor will receive ten copies of Crash Media. -------====###====------- TECH-SPECS Crash Media has been published in print as a free, bi- monthly tabloid, since the middle of March. Printed on tabloid paper, each issue has a print run of 5,000. Crash Media is based in Salford/Manchester and London (UK). Each issue consists of 12 pages. Crash Media is being distributed intensively in the North West of England and London, and selectively world-wide. We are also open to any suggestions for worthwhile locations. Crash Media is a joint venture, defining the agenda of the 'Revolting' media lab in Manchester/Salford UK in Aug/Sept (temp URL: http://www.art-bag.net/revolting), Salford University and 'Skyscraper Digital Publishing'. Crash Media is extended through a digital forum. Threads generated in Crash Media on-line will be selectively reprinted in the next issue. The public access server in Manchester/ Salford will be set up over the next few weeks and will host Crash Media - URL will follow shortly, any domain name suggestions welcomed. http://www.yourserver.co.uk/crashmedia/ !! To receive a free print copy of Crash Media within !! the UK, send a 1st class stamped and self addressed !! A4 or A5 envelope to the below address. -------====###====------- CONTACTS / ADDRESS Micz Flor, Josephine Berry [[email protected]] Crash Media University of Salford Art and Design Technology Research Unit Peru Street UK-Salford M3 6EQ fax: +44.171.6134052 ............................................5.......... Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 16:44:12 +0200 (MET DST) From: ecoropa <[email protected]> To: recipients names suppressed Subject: final call for support- 28 04 98 BURRY THE MAI ####### BURRY THE MAI ####### BURRY THE MAI Paris 10th April 1998 Dear friends, You will find enclosed an almost definitive programme for the two days of action against the MAI : 1. The pre-programme of the 28th of April, today in french, next week in english, we hope you will recognised the speakers since the spelling of their names is the same in both languages... For a better understanding, be aware that the afternoon schedule is planned as follow : It will start at 15h30 by a presentation by speakers who will be identifying the actors, and institutions of the globalisation (see speakers list below). Then everybody, we are expecting at LEAST a 1500 people crowd during the afternoon, will break to the numerous forums and debates organised around the MAI (MAI and democracy, MAI and humans rights, etc... ) (see list below) During the whole afternoon, artists will create visual, musical, etc... activities, so that it will be very alive...Organic food stands are also planned. Of course there will be stands for people who wants to present their activities, please let us now ASAP if you need one. The peak of the afternoon, will be the presentation of the Charter against MAI NTM and the neo-liberal agression, which will be signed by the co-organisers of the events and individuals. After that, around 20h00 pm, a human chain will be formed around the OECD as a symbolic reminder of the 150 th anniversary of the second abolition of the slavery. OECD representing the new 'Master' against whom the peoples are fighting... We hope to be live for the TV news. That is all for the day. I hope this short memo gives you an idea of what is being planned. Important : Please confirm ASAP whether you are planning or not to come. The deadline for your organisation to be listed as co-organiser is tuesday 12th of April, at 13h00 GMP. Be there or be square ! 2. 29th of April. A strategy meeting will be organised. Room is secure. Objectives : next steps against MAI and NTM, and more... Etienne Vernet Thierry David Jen-Michel Isabel PRE-PROGRAMME DU RASSEMBLEMENT INTERNATIONAL DU 28/04/98 15h30 : Ouverture, Spectacle 16h00: A la tribune : QUI SONT LES ACTEURS/DOCTRINES/INSTITUTIONS DU NEO-LIBERALISME ET DE LA MONDIALISATION Intervenants : Michel Chossudovski - Canadien, francophone, professeur d'iconomie ` Ottawa, spicialiste des institutions internationales (FMI, BM, OMC...), dernier livre paru : + Globalisation of poverty ;. Susan George - Prisidente de l'Observatoire de la Mondialisation, co-prisidente du Transnational Institute, membre de l'International Forum on Globalisation, chercheur, dernier livre paru : + La Suisse aux enchhres ;. Agnhs Bertrand - Activiste, secritaire ginirale d'Ecoropa-France, spicialiste du GATT et de l'OMC, membre de l'International Forum on Globalisation et de l'Observatoire de la Mondialisation. 16h30 : Spectacle 17h00 : Forums iclatis sur les digats et les consiquences : 1/ ASSAUT SUR LA DEMOCRATIE, SUR LES DROITS DE L'HOMME ET LES DROITS DES PEUPLES Animateurs du forum : Christian de Brie - Professeur de droit ` Paris VIII. Moustapha Gueye - Coordination Nationale des Sans-Papiers 2/ ASSAUT SUR LES SUR LES DROITS SOCIAUX ET SUR LES SERVICES PUBLICS Animateurs du forum : Claire Villiers - Agie ensemble contre le chtmage Jean-Christophe Chaumeron - Fidiration Finances CGT 3/ ASSAUT SUR LA DIVERSITE CULTURELLE Animateurs du forum : Jean-Henri Roger - Sociiti des Rialisateurs de Films Jack Ralite - Sinateur maire d'Aubervilliers 4/ ASSAUT SUR L'ENVIRONNEMENT ET LA SECURITE ALIMENTAIRE Animateurs du forum : Girard Lambert - Groupe Ecolo-Belge Frangois Dufour - Confidiration Paysanne 18h00 : Spectacle 18h30 : A la tribune : RESISTANCES, EXIGENCES, PERSPECTIVES Intervenants/TRIBUNE (6 mn) : Jean-Claude Amara - Droits Devant Maude Barlow et Tony Clarke - Conseil des Canadiens, co-auteurs du dernier livre paru : + l'AMI un danger pour la souveraineti canadienne. ; Annick Coupi - SUD PTT Nasser Mansouri - secteur iconomique et social de la CGT Chantal Aumeran - SNUI (syndicat national unifii des Imptts) 19h30 : A la tribune : LECTURE DU TEXTE DE LA CHARTE 20h00 : CHAINE HUMAINE AUTOUR DE L'OCDE ......................................................6 Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 11:26:26 -0400 Reply-To: [email protected] Originator: [email protected] Sender: [email protected] Precedence: bulk From: [email protected] (by way of rachel greene) To: [email protected] Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: ParaSounds2 - Wiretap 4.04 *************************************************************** ................... 'Sounds of Silence' ..................... ....................... Wiretap 4.04 ........................ *************************************************************** An exhibition and performance program on sound art, antennas and listening to silence. We experience silence when our ears don't hear anything. But there is no reason to believe that there are no sounds in silence - just as our eyes can only perceive a limited spectrum of waves as optical information, our ears are only sensitive to a small part of what there is to hear. Machines are less limited in this. They can be pitched to pick up all sorts of waves and sounds and to transform them and make them audible for the human ear. Artists and scientists use all sorts of apparatuses in order to research the aesthetical and the physical dimensions of the so called 'silence' and 'white noise' and to make them perceivable to the human senses. *************************************************************** .................... dates and program ...................... *************************************************************** Friday April 17 1998 18.00 hrs: opening exhibition. Saturday April 18 untill May 2 daily from 13.00 hrs untill 18.00 hrs (Monday closed): Installation: 'Aeriology' by Joyce Hinterding. Sunday April 19 from 14.00 hrs untill 17.00 hrs: Wiretap 4.04: 'The Wardenclyffe Project': performance by Projekt Atol/Rastermusic and a presentation by Marko Peljhan on the project Makrolab previously presented at the documenta X in Kassel. Location: V2_Building - Eendrachtsstraat 10 - 3012 XL - Rotterdam Entrance exhibition: fl 2,50 Entrance Wiretap 4.04: fl 7,50 Info: 31.10.404.6427 - [email protected] *************************************************************** ..................... Exhibition ....................... *************************************************************** Joyce Hinterding 'Aeriology' Aeriology is an aerial, several kilometres in length, an energy gatherer, a reconfigurer of subtle fields. Aeriology is a project for an unfolding of the ethereal. A machine for the techne of the imperceptible. Form in the nature of a coil expands the possibilities for an art concerned with lines, flows and folds. These harmonising coils reveal through sympathetic amplification activity of the unseen. Over 34 kilometres of wire wrap around the steel columns in the V2_ space to form an energy gatherer. A huge, semi-transparent wall of copper that is stimulated by imperceptible activities of the environment. The signals and waves that the installation picks up are fed into an audio system and are thus made audible for the human ear. An oscilloscope (with a video/data out) monitors the output of the antenna, while a surveillance camera tracks the movement and human interference in the electromagnetic environment. Images from both the oscilloscope and from the camera are projected onto the walls of the exhibition space. Based in Sydney Australia Joyce Hinterding is a cross media artist producing and exhibiting works that explore dynamics. Her work develops and makes strange with natural phenomena as a means of examining some of the states that exist between things. Through explorations with acoustic and electrical phenomena she has been developing a delirious technology, one that gives a voice to the unquantifiable nature of the everyday world. http://www.imago.com.au/luminoska http://no.va.com.au/ *************************************************************** Projekt Atol / Rastermusic/Noton 'The Wardenclyffe Project' Projekt Atol (Marko Peljhan and Aljosha Abrahamsberg (Slo)) and Rastermusic/Noton (Carsten Nicolai, Frank Bretschneider, Olaf Bender (D)) research possibilities to scan and braodcast information and signals within large communication systems. Marko Peljhan - http://makrolab.ljudmila.org/ Rastermusic/Noton - http://www.rastermusic.com/ Wardenclyffe is a town on Long Island in upstate New York where researcher and inventor Nikola Tesla etsablished an experimental station for a so-called 'world system' in 1900. This 'world system' not only was supposed to create the possibility of wireless transmission of energy to any place in this world, but also to work as a worldwide communication and information system accessible for everybody. The experimental station was never fully finished and was given up on and torn down for lack of money after six years. *************************************************************** The Parasounds series 'Parasounds' is a series of programmes organised by V2_Organisation Rotterdam which explore the subliminal soundscape. 'Parasounds' presents sonic phenomena of the contemporary environment which lie, in one way or the other, 'beyond' what we usually hear and perceive. The programmes look at various aspects of the relations between the natural and technological environment, science, society and the way in which artists are working with such phenomena. 'Parasounds' traces a continuing tendency by artists to move away from the creation of images towards an experience of the world through sound events. The first installment of 'Parasounds' was presented in November 1997 under the title 'Roots and Wires: Polyrhythmic Cyberspace and the Black Electronic'. Other parts of the series - 'Sounds from the Outside', 'Sounds from the Inside' - are due to follow later in 1998. 7...................................................... Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 05:06:23 -0500 To: [email protected] From: [email protected] (MediaFilter) Subject: Kosovo Update from Balkan.Monitor Message-ID: <[email protected]> The KOSOVO issue on Nettime was drowned out in a heated debate by Nationalists and Escapists... No reason to ignore the realities of the brutality in Kosovo because it may not be in your backyard... Be informed! The latest issue of the Balkan Media and Policy Monitor presents a reasoned account of the conflict from the point of view of the Independent Media from the region, translated into English. The following is a list of contents from Issue 59-60, now online at: http://balkan.monitor/59-60 http://mediafilter.org/Monitor/59-60 Events in Kosovo: The current conflicts and problems of this province are analyzed by: - Shkelzen Maliqi from Pristina for a "AIM" - Fehim Rexhepi on the internal situation within key Albnain party for "Nezavisni" - Arben Krasniqi on student protests in Pristina for "AIM" - Ibrahim Mehmeti from Skopje on reactions in Macedonia for "AIM" - Heni Erceg for "Feral Tribune" with a view from Croatia - Roksanda Nincic for "Vreme" on the negotiation prospects - Dejan Anastasijevicz on the political background of recent violence for "Vreme" - Slobodan Inic on Milosevic's Kosovo policy and international role in the negotiations for "Nezavisni" - Slavisa Maric from Pristina on the return of schools to Albanians for "AIM;" - Zoran B. Nikolic for "Vreme" on the formation of an Albanin negotiation advisory group - Besim Abazi for "AIM" on the Albnian view of Milosevic's political stance - "BETA" news agency on the Serbian referendum on Kosovo The Balkan Media and Policy Monitor is a News Digest in English which has been online since May 1, 1995 and has been acclaimed by the Encyclopedia Brittanica as one of it's primary sources on the Balkans Conflict. http://Balkan.Monitor http://MediaFilter.org/Monitor ........8.............................................. From: [email protected] To: [email protected], [email protected] Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 17:37:18 +0100 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Subject: A SEED Europe is looking for....a new office team membe Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.54) Sender: geert Precedence: bulk Reply-To: [email protected] X-Freeteam: dif-eu Ander Europa lijst ------------------ A SEED Europe is looking for a rational ,candid, patient, active,creative, sensible, practical, honest, philosophical, financially brilliant, political, gentle, self- confident, devoted, supportive, poetic, decisive, original, co- operative, reliable, brave, straightforward, sweet, inspiring computer- literate, elegant, persistent, informed, motivated, action-oriented, engaged and enraged person: YOU?!?! A SEED Europe is the European part of a global network of activists and groups active on issues of environment, justice, solidarity, globalisation and diversity. A SEED organises campaigns that encourage people to get active inall these areas. The last months we have been concentrating on the HOT SPRING campaign which focuses on the negative consequensces of economic globalisation for nature and people all over the world. The facilitating office of the A SEED Europe network is based in Amsterdam. From there the network is fed with information through ROOTS (monthly newsletter), HOT SPRING Update (calendar of activities), SEEDlinks (quarterly magazine), the website (visit it at http://www.antenna.nl/aseed) and various other publications. At the Amsterdam office, we also work on fund-raising, maintaining the database and organising events to keep the network strong and kicking. Every 6 months we organise an activist gathering/General Meeting (next one in Bulgaria in July) or large gatherings (last one the Alternative Summit in Amsterdam in June 1997, parallel to the EU Summit). At the general meeting an overall strategy will be set for the next nine months. At the moment, six people from all over the world are working in the office. Together they are responsible to keep the network going. We are looking for a new person to strengthen the current team for at least one year. This person will share in all the responsibilities of the team. The team plays an active role in the direction of A SEED on a European as well as an international level. Together with the council (or 'board' consisting at the moment of 6 people from all over Europe) the office team is responsible for putting the outcomes of the general meetings into practice. If you speak and write English, are (preferably!) younger than 30 , have experience in organising events, have experience with financial issues such as fundraising and bookkeeping, and have some knowledge of the European activist and NGO movement in this field, we are interested in your application. Another requirements is that you are up to date in environment/development issues and believe that we can change the world through action. Unfortunately we can only employ someone that doesn't need a visum for the Netherlands. Please send in a 1 to-2 page application letter plus a detailed statement of your motivationton to the A SEED office as soon as possible but before April 20, applicants will be notified in the first week of May. We hope to hear from you ! The A SEED Europe office team. A SEED Europe PO Box 92066 1090 AB Amsterdam Netherlands tel: 31-20-668-2236 fax: 31-20-665-0166 email: [email protected] WWW: http://www.antenna.nl/aseed/ P.O.Box 92066 1090 AB Amsterdam The Netherlands tel. +31 20 6682236 fax +31 20 6650166 ................9...................................... Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 18:47:42 +0200 X-Sender: [email protected] Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 1 (Highest) To: [email protected] From: [email protected] (Richard Barbrook) Subject: Cyber.Salon 5 <22/4/98> Mute Telepolis & Hypermedia Research Centre present: CYBER.SALON 5 'Women and Technology' Speakers: Eva Pascoe (Cyberia, The Independent) Caroine Bassett (cultural commentator) Chair: Pauline van Mourik Broekman (Mute) 7pm to 11pm Wednesday 22nd April Sub-Cyberia (basement of Cyberia) 39 Whitfield St LONDON W1P 3LU entrance free be there early! =========================================================================== Cyber.Salon 5: Women and Technology The last few years have seen an explosion of activity in the re-formulating of women's relationship to technology. Authors such as Donna Haraway and Sadie Plant have famously re-written this relationship as one of possibility and ambiguity, offering us images of 'hopeful monsters' and 'wired_women' in place of the submissive, technologically threatened and eco- oriented protagonists of earlier feminisms. Instead of enslavement by, submission to, or incomprension of technology, we are now faced with images of liberation through 'productive couplings' with it. Instead of women domesticating the offshoots of militarism, providing the friendly, homespun face to products that are anything but, women are now the non-innocent, and active, users of it. Some even argue for a 'natural' empathy between woman and machine - both operating as counters in early computer history, both increasingly autonomous from men, and both perfectly suited to an era of erratic schedules, multi-tasking and micro-production. Although it may have received a large share of attention, this explosion of activity is in no way restricted to the realms of theory. The work of female programmers, multi-media and information-designers, employees (and CEOs) of technology companies and moderators of women/girl lists and zines have incorporated technology into their lives in a way that conspicuously illustrates the tower-of-texts that has been published on the subject. Yet, to this list should be added the thousands of tele-operators, chip-installers and female hi-tech workers that 'man' sundry information desks, production lines and data-banks that make the global economy tick at ever greater speeds, and whose circumstances place a big question mark over the notion of a hopeful (cyber)feminist future. Cyber.Salon 5 wants to take another look: Eva Pascoe, Caroline Bassett and - chair - Pauline van Mourik Broekman will discuss the day-to-day relationships of Women and Tech, aswell as some of the principal ideas behind contemporary re-formulations of their relationship (e.g.in cyberfeminism). Possible topics include: -Tele-working: Audi-ad or hi-tech prison? -Women-only lists/zines: Exclusion or Inclusion? -In Tele-communities: from Ideal Home to Ideal Host? -The feminisation of work: who wins? -Glass ceilings: who wants to break through them? -Appropriate technology: who *really* need modems? =========================================================================== Forthcoming Cyber.Salons Wednesday 20th May: Beyond the Californian Ideology with Peter Lunenfeld and Korinna Patelis =========================================================================== Coming Soon: <www.cybersalon.net> the Cyber.Salon website and on-line conference space =========================================================================== *** PLEASE NOTE THAT WE'VE MOVED PERMANENTLY FROM 'THE WHITE HORSE' *** =========================================================================== --- # 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: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: [email protected]