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sylvester roepstorff

Critical Art Ensemble - 0 views

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activism network theory tb

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  • sylvester roepstorff on 28 Oct 09
     
    Critical Art Ensemble is a collective of five tactical media practitioners of various specializations including computer graphics and web design, film/video, photography, text art, book art, and performance.
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walking as knowing as making - 0 views

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tb kunst vidensdistribution vidensgenerering grundlagsdebat

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  • Rarely is walking considered as a distinct mode of acting, knowing, and making. As its necessity diminishes and its applications rarefy, the potential of walking as critical, creative, and subversive tool appears only to grow. Conceived of as a conversation between the body and the world, walking becomes a reciprocal and simultaneous act of both interpretation and manipulation; an embodied and active way of shaping and being shaped that operates on a scale and at a pace embedded in something seemingly more authentic and real.
  • sylvester roepstorff on 02 Oct 13
     
    Evt. en måde at holde møde på. "Rarely is walking considered as a distinct mode of acting, knowing, and making. As its necessity diminishes and its applications rarefy, the potential of walking as critical, creative, and subversive tool appears only to grow. Conceived of as a conversation between the body and the world, walking becomes a reciprocal and simultaneous act of both interpretation and manipulation; an embodied and active way of shaping and being shaped that operates on a scale and at a pace embedded in something seemingly more authentic and real."
rune66

The Triumph of Emptiness - Mats Alvesson - Bok (9780199660940) | Adlibris Bokhandel - A... - 1 views

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grundlagsdebat tomhedens trium mats alvesson

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  • rune66 on 09 Mar 13
     
    "Using a wide range of empirical examples to illuminate the realms of consumption, higher education, organization, and leadership, this provocative and engaging book challenges established assumptions and contributes to a critical understanding of society as a whole."
  • rune66 on 09 Mar 13
     
    Han har sgu skrevet nogle interessant ting. Spørgsmålet er, hvad man kan bruge det i konstruktivt sammenhæng?
sylvester roepstorff

The Collapse of Fractional Banking | Wall Street Survivor University - 1 views

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peak oil economy finanskrise tb politics

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  • The U.S. government has confirmed that indeed a recession began in December 2007, when the price of oil climbed to nearly $100 a barrel.
  • And this is what governments are seeing, banks are seeing, what markets are seeing, but no one is talking about it because it portends changes that are greater than anyone can seriously contemplate.
  • Critics of the concept of peak oil claim that it is crazy to suggest we’re running out of oil – and they’re right! These critics fail to understand the predicament of Peak Oil which is that the rate of growth in the daily/monthly/yearly production of oil is slowing and after the peak, will fall into permanent decline.
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  • Indeed, it is our collective addiction to growth that is the cause of this peak oil predicament. Our entire way of life is focused on growth: growing a family, growing a city, growing a business and growing our economy. All of this growth was needed to perpetuate the fractional reserve banking system, which is now on life support, about to die.
  • "We’re dealing with a cultural problem.
  • It all depends on your inner state, your point of view, how you interpret the world around you.
sylvester roepstorff

Ecology of the Mind | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters - 0 views

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universalism grundlagsdebat critic ecology of the mind kapitalisme adbusters vidensdistribution

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  • Quiet feels foreign now, but quiet could be just what we need. Silence may be to a healthy mind what clean air and water are to a healthy body.
  • The commercial media are to the mental environment what factories are to the physical environment. A factory dumps pollution into the water or air because that’s the most efficient way to produce plastic or wood pulp or steel. A TV station or website pollutes the cultural environment because that’s the most efficient way to produce audiences. It pays to pollute. The psychic fallout is just the cost of putting on the show.
  • The information we consume is increasingly flat and homogenized. Designed to reach millions, it often lacks nuance, complexity and context. Reading the same factoids on Wikipedia and watching the same viral video on YouTube, we experience a flattening of culture. Cultural homogenization has graver consequences than the same hairstyles, catchphrases, action-hero antics and video clips propagated ad nauseam around the world. In all systems, homogenization is poison. Lack of diversity leads to inefficiency and failure. Infodiversity is as critical to our long-term survival as biodiversity. Both are bedrocks of human existence.
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  • We may be suffering from the infodisease that Nicholas Carr first diagnosed in himself. “Over the past few years,” he writes, “I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory… what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.”
  • The result is a society that treats our cultural heritage as a resource for exploitation. Instead of producing new works of genuine art that replenish our mental environment, we celebrate the amateur whose mash-ups may be hilarious but contribute nothing of value to the cultural conversation. This situation becomes especially distressing when we consider that just as there is a finite amount of nutrients in our soil, there is a finite amount of creativity that the past can yield. Great art is rare, and only so many mash-ups can be released before the original power of a truly artistic creation is lost. And without the production of an authentic culture, our mental environment is in danger of becoming a clear-cut wasteland, overfarmed and depleted. In Lanier’s words, “we face a situation in which culture is effectively eating its own seed stock.”
  • sylvester roepstorff on 13 Jul 10
     
    En temmelig pessimistisk og tankevækkende artikel om distraktion, informationssyge og kulturkannibalisme - om forureningen af sindet og tabet af viden og evnen til fordybelse. 
  • rune66 on 17 Jul 10
     
    Jeg synes bestemt godt om nogen af citaterne måske især den om medierne som forurenende fabrikker. Dog synes jeg også, at den er meget negativ, og derfor lider af mangel på konstruktivitet. Det er meget nemt at være negativ, og man kommer også meget nemt til at overdrive. Igen er spørgsmål om en artikel som ovenstående kan hjælpe os med at handle positivt, eller om den bare får os til at hensynke i mere apati. Jeg synes, at den måske kan give en noget eftertænksomhed og få én til at stoppe op, men handlingsændrende er det nok ikke.
rune66

Er drømmen allerede forbi? | information.dk - 2 views

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Nancy Fraser kapitalismekritik

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  • Man bliver nødt til også at se på, hvordan et bedre liv kunne tage sig ud. Man bliver nødt til at formulere visioner for et liv, der er sjovere, friere og mere meningsfuldt.
  • prog, som er opfundet til et bestemt formål i en bestemt hensigt, vil altid brede sig og blive brugt af andre til andre formål. Det kan vi beklage, men vi kan ikke bekæmpe det uden at bekæmpe sproget selv.
  • rune66 on 23 Jan 10
     
    "Blå bog: Nancy Fraser *Født i 1947. Professor ved New School i New York City. Hun er en af de kendteste amerikanske kritiske teoretikere og feminister. *Blandt hendes vægtigste værker er 'Unruly practices - Power, Discourse and Gender in Comtemporary Social Theory' fra 1989, 'Justice Interruptus - Critical reflections on the Post-Socialist Condition' fra 1997 og 'Feminist contentions', som er en udveksling med Seyla Benhabib, Judith Butler og Drucilla Cornell fra 1994. *Sammen med den tyske socialfilosof Axel Honneth udgav hun i 2003 'Redistribution or Recognition?' *Hendes seneste værk er 'Scales of justice: reimagining political space in a globalizing world fra 2008'. *Aktuelt arbejder hun på en studie af kapitalismen."
Henrik Ryan

Peak Oil: Life After the Oil Crash - 0 views

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Peak Oil generalprøve på systemsammenbrud politisk apati Sovietunionens

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  • Henrik Ryan on 29 Jan 10
     
    Artiklen, der linkes til, er tredie side i en længere udredning om, hvilken lære vi kan drage af de udfordringer russerne stod i efter Sovietunionens sammenbrud med deraf følgende sammenbrud i alle aspekter af systemet, hvilket medførte ophør af institutionel ansvars varetagelse på stort set alle områder; økonomi, energiforsyning, fødevareforsyning, sikkerhed etc. Man kommer til at tænke over, hvilke livsfornødenheder man selv ville kunne tage ansvar for at varetage, såfremt en disintegration, af det system man selv indgår i, skulle indtræde.
  • Henrik Ryan on 29 Jan 10
     
    "In the U.S., there is an industry of political commentators and pundits which is devoted to inflaming political passions as much as possible, especially before elections. This is similar to what sports writers and commentators do to draw attention to their game. It seems that the main force behind political discourse in the U.S. is boredom: one can chat about the weather, one's job, one's mortgage and how it relates to current and projected property values, cars and the traffic situation, sports, and, far behind sports, politics. In an effort to make people pay attention, most of the issues trotted out before the electorate pertain to reproduction: abortion, birth control, stem cell research, and similar small bits of social policy are bandied about rather than settled, simply because they get good ratings. "Boring" but vitally important strategic issues such as sustainable development, environmental protection, and energy policy are studiously avoided. Although people often bemoan political apathy as if it were a grave social ill, it seems to me that this is just as it should be. Why should essentially powerless people want to engage in a humiliating farce designed to demonstrate the legitimacy of those who wield the power? In Soviet-era Russia, intelligent people did their best to ignore the Communists: paying attention to them, whether through criticism or praise, would only serve to give them comfort and encouragement, making them feel as if they mattered. Why should Americans want to act any differently with regard to the Republicans and the Democrats? For love of donkeys and elephants?"
sylvester roepstorff

Nussbaum, M.C.: Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities. (Hardcover) - 1 views

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demokrati tb grundlagsdebat åndsvidenskab kulturpolitik humaniora

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  • Historically, the humanities have been central to education because they have rightly been seen as essential for creating competent democratic citizens. But recently, Nussbaum argues, thinking about the aims of education has gone disturbingly awry both in the United States and abroad. Anxiously focused on national economic growth, we increasingly treat education as though its primary goal were to teach students to be economically productive rather than to think critically and become knowledgeable and empathetic citizens. This shortsighted focus on profitable skills has eroded our ability to criticize authority, reduced our sympathy with the marginalized and different, and damaged our competence to deal with complex global problems. And the loss of these basic capacities jeopardizes the health of democracies and the hope of a decent world.
  • sylvester roepstorff on 02 Oct 14
     
    Her findes nogle argumenter for humaniora og åndsvidenskab fra en person, hvis hele værk også kan ses som et forsvar for disse.
  • rune66 on 04 Oct 14
     
    Har lige checket anmeldelser på Amazon, og bogen lyder interessant, men også måske lidt for tynd. Se f.eks.: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2DJTI7ZHQ0LPW/ref=cm_cr_dp_cmt?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0691140642&nodeID=283155&store=books#wasThisHelpful Hendes pointer med at uddannelser i dag begrundes med vækst, synes jo at være i fuldstændig synkronisation med den igangværende dimensionering på danske universiteter. Jeg føler mig samtidig følelsesmæssigt ude af stand til at rumme min egen frustration over, hvad jeg oplever som magtmisbrug og korruption bland nutidens politkere og embedsfolk (som f.eks. ham jeg fortalte om, der er mere interesserede i storcentre end uddannelser, og i øvrigt scorer en kæmpe løn). I virkeligheden synes jeg det er noget, som er værd for mig/os at behandle denne frustration helt separat, for den forhindrer én i at komme videre med den vedholdende kritik, og arbejde med alternativer. Mit bedste middel mod den er at ignorere politikerdimensionen af virkeligheden, og måske det bare er det, som jeg fortsat skal gøre. De er simpelthen udenfor rækkevidde. De tjener deres gode penge, har deres fede karrierer, og har bildt sig selv ind, at de gør det godt, og der er ikke længere noget, der kan trænge ind til dem. Se i øvrigt mit link til http://www.information.dk/511467
rune66

As Amazon Rises, So Does the Opposition - The New York Times - 0 views

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amazon kapitalisme

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  • rune66 on 20 Apr 20
     
    "If you relentlessly squeeze workers and suppliers, if you undermine every community's local businesses, if you capture all of this surplus under the guise of efficiency and channel those gains to a small number of people, you end up with a system that is very vulnerable," said Ms. Mitchell, an antitrust reformer and monopoly critic. "That is what we've been doing, systematically and as a matter of public policy."
sylvester roepstorff

Thank You, Anarchists | The Nation - 0 views

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occupy_wall_street ows organization kapitalismekritik

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  • The Occupiers know that more traditional political organizations—such as labor unions, political parties and advocacy groups—are critical to making their message heard.
rune66

G.O.P. Monetary Madness - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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økonomi paul krugman inflation

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  • As an ardent supporter of Ron Paul, I must acknowledge Paul Krugman's point about getting inflation wrong, at least in the years since the crash. He is right that there were many outspoken critics of monetary expansion at the time, including Paul and Schiff, who predicted massive inflation around the corner. But there are two further points to be made about Austrian Economics in general.First, there were at the time and continue to be Austrians who correctly anticipated the strong deflationary pressures we actually ended up facing. Mike Shedlock, for example, is concerned much more with contracting aggregate credit than expanding monetary base.Second, Austrians are unanimous on a much bigger point: that we are still in the middle of this crisis. We reject any suggestion that a recovery is underway or that any underlying structural problems have actually been resolved. As such, we have yet to confront the worst consequences of the crisis and once we do, some of the outcomes Paul and Schiff predict could come into play.Austrians also agree that while the monetary expansion may not have yet caused massive inflation, it has managed to keep incumbent banks in power. Money printing is thus seen as maintaining the status quo. Rather than the mighty banks falling and being replaced by smaller, fairer banks, they remain entrenched. This populist angst towards money printing - as a tool of the establishment - currently holds more sway than concern about rampant inflation.
  • rune66 on 30 Dec 11
     
    Lidt mere fra samme snak.
sylvester roepstorff

Forbud mod vendekåber i det offentlige rum? (klumme af Rune Engelbreth Larsen) - 2 views

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cronicle tb opposition criticism

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  • sylvester roepstorff on 19 Jan 10
     
    En ret vittig kommentar fra Rune Engelbreth.
sylvester roepstorff

Jaron Lanier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views

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tb information information_wants_to_be_free jaron lanier criticism internet

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  • "You have to have a chance to sense personality in order for language to have its full meaning.
  • sterile style of wiki writing is undesirable because: it removes the touch with the real author of original information, it filters the subtlety of his opinions, essential information (eg. incl. graphical context of original sources) is lost, it creates the false sense of authority behind the information,
  • Lanier's position is that humans may not be considered as the biological computers
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  • biggest problem of any theory (esp. ideology) is not that it is false, but when it claims to be the sole and utterly complete path to understanding life and reality.
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      sylvester roepstorff on 20 Jan 10
       
      It's almost banal but actually said by so few - and so important.
sylvester roepstorff

Indignez vous! by Stephane Hessel - the text « Sapte Stele / Seven Stars - 1 views

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stephane hessel oprør modstand

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  • The end is not far away
  • The public interest must prevail over the interest individual, the fair sharing of the wealth created by the world of work override the power of  money.
  • “The press freedom, its  honor and independence againt the power of the State, the power of money and foreign influences.” That is what turns further orders on the press in 1944. Yet that is what is now in danger. The Resistance was calling for “an effective opportunity for all French children to benefit from the most developed education”, without discrimination, yet the reforms proposed in 2008 go against this project. Young teachers, which actions I support, were up to refuse to apply them and they saw their wages cut as a punishment. They were outraged, have “disobeyed” and found these reforms too far from the ideal of the republican school, too much in the service of Page 3 the money society and not enough developing the creative and critical thinking. It is just the base of the social conquests of the Resistance which is now in question (2)
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  • The gap between the poorest and richest has never been so important, and the race for money, the competition has never been so encouraged.
  • We, veterans of resistance movements and fighting forces of Liberated France, we call the younger generations to stand up, to transmit the heritage of the Resistance and its ideals.
  • When I try to understand what caused fascism, what caused the invasion by it and by Vichy, I tell myself that the wealthy, with their selfishness, have been terribly afraid of the Bolshevik revolution. They have been guided by their fears
  • Proust
  • Walter Benjamin
  • I tell young people: Look for a bit, you’ll find.
  • The worst attitude is indifference, saying “I can not do anything, I’m doing my job.
  • I had the chance after Liberation of being involved in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations, 10 December 1948 in Paris at the Palais de Chaillot.
  • René Cassin was  the one whom we owe the term “universal rights Page 7 and not” international “as suggested by our Anglo-Saxon friends.
  • It is obvious that to be effective today, we must act in a network, take advantage of all means of modern communication.
  • Alas, history gives little examples of people who learn from their own history.
  • Guillaume Apollinaire: “That hope is violent ” not politics
  • sylvester roepstorff on 14 Jan 11
     
    Selve teksten (på engelsk) fra Hessel, først udkommet i okt. 2010.
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