not

povodne chceli overovat info cez public, to nebolo dobre – ludia nemaju resources, tak sa obratili na novinarov.
daniel domscheit-berg (schmitt) o wl pocul na konci 2007 via friends, zistil viac, quit job of computer consultant.
housing vo svedsku (kvoli silnemu free speech law) najprv chceli ‘tunnel traffic through PRQ to bypass IP bans), potom tam dali server.
ponukaju anonymizacne sluzby, VPN.. PRQ: “we accept everything that is legal under swedish law. regardless of how objectionable it is.
we don’t make moral judgements.”
smari mccarthy, “information activist”, island.
v 10/08 pada bankovy system na islande (17/18 je v haji?), wl leakne matros o bankach
hrafnsson (60?, artist?) pocul prvykrat v 8/09, pracoval vtedy ako reporter pre statnu tv
v islandskej TV assange+schmitt prezentovali ‘transparency haven’ ako novy biznis model pre IS (na sposob svajciarskeho tax haven)
IS transp haven proposal napisali za 4-5 hodin v hotelovej izbe from scratch: niekto z immi, mccarthy, jonsdottir (anti iraq war campainger), rob konkrep?, assange
akceptovany bez vyhrad(?) parlamentom
schmitt: society is just another system.
cables spolu s war reportami a videami dostali asi naraz, to sami nezvladnu – assange ukazal v reykjavickom kafe bagdad video hrafnssonovi
hrafnsson: hi res, good quality, excessive use of power to shoot people w/ 30mm bullets normally used to penetrate armed vehicles and tanks
assange: “different people talk about whether for US it is right or wrong to be in Iraq, nonetheless in this incident, even if you argue it was right
or wrong to be in iraq, even in that suburb at that time in hellicopter overlooking this wounded man crawling on the street,
it was not helpful for US that man to be shot”. reason? 1. it is a videogame. 2. they brag after kill
pre hrafnsson sa stalo obsesiou zistit identitu tych ludi, najma deti. letel do bagdadu, tv report pre islandsku telku,
nasiel rodinu deti a ukazal im video.
bolo dolezite oslovit NYT aj guardian, forced collaboration (miesto toho aby sutazili)
reakcia na video: je mozne ze wl a assange uz maju na svojich rukach krv nasich vojakov alebo afganskej rodiny. [asi fakt best co mohli povedat –
priamy utok naspat – obvinit ich z toho isteho (i ked bez dokazu) a ukazat ze tak spravili este vacsiu skodu]
iraq war logs analyzoval tim investigativny zurnalistov v londyne – TBIJ (data zurnalisti, atd, sef: iain overton).
reports written from incidents right after, day to day, through the eyes of soldiers.
a pri praci boli sledovani.
war data logs nehovoria o vojne cez typkov v air-conditioned rooms in green zones, ale cez smrt, incidenty v reali.
vo svedsku ziadal o azyl.
PP po dlhej debate prebrali web wikileaks.
svedsky sex: victim of personal revenge.
schmitt: zaber na assanga oslabilo organizaciu.
assange chcel vydat najvacsie ryby, schmitt to chcel postupne… velke si nechat na koniec
irc assange-schmitt o newsweek (anonymnom?) iview (asi nejaky clen wl):
schmitt: “face the fact that you don’t have much trust on the inside anymore. you behave like some kind of emperor or slave trader.”
schmitt: you have to be transparent yourself. you have to follow standards you expect from others.
takze daniel a dalsi (napr herbert snorrason, historian) su s nim v spore.
snorrason o assangovi: “if you have a problem with me, just piss off.”
potichu si rozbehli a zaciatkom dec spustili svoj projekt openleaks (asi sedia niekde v berline s club mate na stole)
mccarthy: information spreads borderlessly, states have to rethink how they approach info, if they dont they will cease to exist.
hrafnsson: “democracy without transparency is not democracy”.

lepsie v: http://burundi.sk/dusan/carrythatweight/images/5/51/Pzi.esej.research.txt

rick falkvinge, oscon 2007 (o’reilly conf, portland OR), lecture, founder of swedish pirate party
http://blip.tv/file/318885/
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main point v debate ci filesharing je dobry pre ekonomiku: copyright = commercial monopoly
copyright today has crapped into our private communications (it is illegal for me to send music in email to you guys)
if copyright is to be enforced in the digital age that means it [interferes] with our emails.
=> that means that every single piece of private communication has to be monitored by law enforcement and by corporate interest groups guarding copyright to watch for the copyright infringements.
it gets worse:
corporates lobby for ISP for being liable for what their users do.
=> that threatens the ‘common carrier principle’ that messenger is never responsible for the content of the message
= both are centuries old principles of how our democracy works
lady justice has a trouble:
on one end: income for luxury consumption; on another end: 2 principles of our democracy.
=> tiez ak je kazdy email kontrolovany, tak whistleblower protection is gone.
=> if you know you’re monitored you tend to put restraint on yourself.
a ked nemas moznost formulovat svoje myslienky privatne, you lose your identity (ktora je vytvarana v private exchange bwn you and your friends).
= you need privacy, you need a postal secret
corps nas chcu presvedcit o tom ze to je otazka profitu (a udrzania monopolov), no pritom je to otazka zakladnych ludskych prav.
summary of pirate party:
copyright has nothing to do @ my private communication; lifetime+70 yrs is ridiculous as a copyright term for commercial use;
DRM is evil; patents are even more evil (ranging from useless to immoral to diabolical);
privacy is good; dual process(?) is good; and transparent government is even better;
we also safeguard the right of attribution for the copyright very strongly
other parties when realised are loosing votes to PP came to them and ask to have things explained.
norska liberalna strana dokonca skopirovala cely ich stance on copyright
vo svedsku su dve silne strany,
we play ‘who wants to be the prime minister’, the price for that would be the IP rights reform

lepsie v: http://burundi.sk/dusan/carrythatweight/images/5/51/Pzi.esej.research.txt

In 1984, in his last lectures entitled La Courage de la Verité
http://eipcp.net/transversal/1210/raunig/en
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multiple forms of truth discourses (from antiquity)
of which three can be seen as figures of imparting knowledge:
/ existuje niekolko foriem diskurzov pravdy, z nich tri su vnimane cez poznanie (ale netyka sa poznania vsetka pravda? wp: poznanie ako prienik medzi pravdou a vierou)
* (classic) teacher
knowledge as techne, as an ability embodied in a practice.
In this mode of embodiment knowledge is owned, passed on from one to another as property, from teacher to pupil in a long chain of tradition, in a hierarchy of generations and a uniform, static order of knowledge.
a rigid striation and separation of the various techniques and disciplines.
the point is to develop a rhetorical practice that seeks conflict and transversal exchange beyond the boundaries of traditions and disciplines.
/ odovzdava sa z pokolenia na pokolenie, je to objekt, property, vec. …nie event!!!!
/ co ma za nasledok delenie na discipliny, napr na uni
/ ciel je zamerat sa na hranicne praktiky, konfliktne body, praktiky ktore sa stavaju nad hranice
* (universalist) wise man
his form of imparting only consists in being a role model, in epitomizing, exemplifying.
disregard for every kind of singularity, specificity, situativity.
/ byt stelesnenim poznania. vnutri seba. ‘ucit bytim’. ale problem je ze tiez nie je event, je to staticke. neviem odovzdat nieco na poziadanie..
* prophet, (charismatic) master-prophet
has the role of an imparter, but at the same time, he does not speak for himself, in his own name.
/ nechapem. zosobnuje poznanie, ale nehovori za seba?? hovori “we”? ako guy a pod a aktivisti v knihach?
/ foucault nema nic o chapani poznania ako eventu? (ma.. nasleduje stvrty typ)
/ toto je asi rozdiel!!!
/ prva cast bola o ‘knowledge that’, dalsia bude o knowledge as an event? nestratim sa v tom ale? nemam sa tu moc o co opriet…
delanda v new philosophy of society ani objekt as event nerozvija… mozno spekulativni realisti…
to je vnimanie objektu cez procesy, cez jeho vlastnosti ktore su v pohybe.
performing the knowledge…. knowledge production wl supplies ‘truth’, media debate enhances ‘belief’, and knowledge is being performed.
knowledge about how our world functions, in a dynamic way, what processes are inherent in the debate.
this is democracy – clash of various (incoherent) worldviews
* parrhesia, truth-speaking = “fearless speach” [rough translation], “frankness in speaking the truth”
fourth form of truth discourse that goes beyond the types of the teacher, the wise man and the prophet.
in 3 variations:
the political truth-speaking of the citizen to the majority of the assembly or the philosopher to the tyrant
/ excluded to the included?; mat prave ten jeden hlas len, voci majorite
ethical truth-speaking as test and exercise leading to care for the self and others. the questioning perfected by Socrates
socrates nie je teacher, wise man, ani prophet.
His craft consists not of teaching and imparting, but rather in a practice of calling-into-question.
Knowledge arises in the movement, which generates a differentiation, “as difference, as distance, attained contrary to general opinion and shared certainties”.
“school of the missing teacher” (“l’école du maître qui manque”)
practice of the Cynics as exercising the scandal of the truth, as “philosophical activism” and as a predecessor of the revolutionary movements of the 19th and 20th century.
this one is most relevant today.
/ assange???

+ moje reci:

; knowledge production, negotiation
na bxl openvideo workshope som povedal: debaty/spory na wikipedii? to je na nej najzaujimavejsie. ostatni stichli a pozreli na mna.
this is the event of knowledge production.

We would like to understand knowledge not as a static property, an object being transmitted from one node to another,
like a file being copied. Filesharing only gives means for knowledge being produced. Participation in the discussion
One may say the actual wikipedia pages are but the detritus of the knowledge. The event of knowledge production
is metasthasised in the wikipedia discussion pages, and in the articles and books being referred to, where it is being negotiated
by the users. We should [pripomenut] that the discussion pages accomodate the private mode of conversation, when the subset
of NPOV rules haunts the discussion.
/ v tom zlyhava log – iba transmituje data, miesto aby bol knowledge production platform
/ na prednej strane prebieha akurat formalna/technicka debata, ak ide o argument tak sa debata presuva do discussion

To Foucault, knowledge exists only where power relations are suspended. To Zizek, this Foucauldian position is false: there is no knowledge that does not presuppose power relations.
There is no place beyond discourse and the power relations that govern them; resistance and change are possible from within them (Zizek: Beyond Foucault, p. 90).
It is this position that colors the primary difference between the political strategies of Zizek over Foucault. To Zizek, revolutionary potential must be sought within the capitalist system of desire, and it must seek to be universalized.
/ takze aj wikileaks ma power
/ task: how to universalize revolutionary potential within the capitalist system of desire, aka je esencia toho co robia wikileaks?
a na zaklade toho – co robia zle?
/ presne takto by som mal pokracovat dalej [riesim teraz otazku transparency]
/ lokalizovat hlavne kontradikcie na ktorych sa pohybuje wikileaks (a s nimi aj globalna debata) a univerzalizovat ich
(v zmysle zizeka/kanta). cize lokalizovat ‘excluded’ – excluded informacie, treba zapojit do commons.
aby sa potom v ramci commons riesili problemy majetku a hodnoty objektu (vratane updatu tychto terminov)
/ scientific journalism – tiez zasadne tuna
/ excluded – otazka – vyradeni z coho? a co je tu commons?

+ moje reci k wikileaks:

otazka ludskeho poznania – chcu vytvorit intellectual/ record of how civilisation works in practise; our decisions are based on what we know.
je to nieco niekde, ktore mame odhalit a dostat k nemu pristup.
proste kopa, ktora je pod zamkom.
to snad ide do epistemologie – foucaultove pisanie o poznani spada pod nu?

; filesharing
? obmedzit cely clanok na filesharing? kludne.. filesharing in the context of political economy
mozno vysvetlit aj veci okolo, ale povedat ze ich nebudem teraz rozvijat

; propositions via potentialities
podla whiteheada potom pri cables pre nas nie je otazka ci su skutocne alebo falosne (pre wl tim bola otazka,
ci ich releasnu – to ci su prave bola len jedna z veci na zaklade ktorej zvazovali).
ale aky otvaraju v kulture potencial. W: “proposition points to a potentiality [..]
propositions are possible routes of actualization, vectors of nondeterministic change.
The “pri- mary role” of a proposition, Whitehead says, is to “pave the way along which the world advances into novelty.”.
^ takto citaj dokumenty ktore releasuje wl, a ktore obsahuje wp, a ktore siri tpb
vsetky tri su platformy, ktore maju podobne ambicie (aku hlavnu premisu ma tpb?)
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task: open up access to excluded knowledge

; epistemology / knowledge that+how+acq
epistemologia – knowledge that [classical propositional knowledge = prienik medzi truths and beliefs], knowledge how, acquaintance knowledge…
ze 2 a 2 su 4. ale ze ako sa rata.
pozeram okolo na veci viem povedat ze su a kolko ich je.
ale o vacsine z nich neviem ako vznikli, ako stali sebou.
kutili su deleuziani.
viem ze nie co je, viem o vela veciach ze su.
ale viem len o malo z nich ako vznikli.
teda ake procesy v nich prebiehaju.
lebo sa menia dalej.
nie su fixne, nedorazili z buducnosti aby ostali rovnake, ani neplanuju ostavat rovnake s vyhladom do buducnosti.
menia ich ich procesy.
ktore ich formuju.
napr flasa vina… ako to ze je flasa vina? proces vyroby flase, proces vyroby vina, vinica, pestovanie vinica, distribucia, sklad, predaj, spotreba
recyklacia flase na inu flasu.

born 68

wl contains 4 large-scale trends in society:
* change in the materiality of communication.
Communication becomes more extensive, more recorded, and the records become more mobile
* crisis of institutions, particularly in western democracies
* rise of new actors, “super-empowered” individuals, capable of intervening into historical developments at a systemic level
* structural transformation of the public sphere (through media consolidation at one pole, and the explosion of non-institutional publishers at the other),
rivals Habermas’ version

9/11: kritika ze aparat sa o tom nedozvedel lebo nebol dostatocne prepojeny
inability to connect data located in different bureaucratic domains was one of the main criticisms coming out the enquires into the 9/11 attacks.
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wikileaks ukazuje ze teraz su prepojeni, ale k files maju pristup kvanta ludi
Within certain organisation such as banks and the military, virtually everything is classified and large number of people have access to this data
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There is an inherent paradox. Vast streams of classified records need to flow freely in order to sustain complex,
distributed and time-sensitive operations. Yet, since the information is classified, it needs to flow within strict
boundaries which cannot be clearly defined on a general level (after all, you never know what needs to get connected
with what in advance), and it needs to flow through many, many hands. This creates the techno-organisational preconditions
for massive amounts of information to leak out.

zamestnanci corps a statneho aparatu leakuju lebo sa necitia identifikovani s org… ich miesta su nahraditelne [weber’s rational-legal org]
a corp od nich chce aby boli kreativni a samostatni, a oni vedia ze ich berie ako docasny naklad/zdroj
-> tato disonancia produkuje motivaciu leaknut

WL created a custom-made infrastructure to receive these torrents of records.
WL managed for the first time to create an effective infrastructure for anonymous communication.
/ mirrored DNSs, mirrored content, ssh, tor access/uploads, pgp v mailoch.. server v atomovom kryte.. networked org.. not paid..
/ takze ma doveru potencionalnych whistleblowerov, ktori navyse vidia ze leak infa bude mat dosah
!! na rozdiel od piratebay:
they built social intelligence (filtering, editorial control) into the system in order to encourage only one type of anonymous speech – whistle-blowing – while insulating themselves from the usual criticisms of anonymous communication (child-porn trafficking and the like).

; rhetorics
moralist – Blair’s “humanitarian wars” to advance human rights; Irak aj Afganistan – prinesieme demokraciu a prosperitu, vytiahneme ich z obc.vojny, oslobodime zeny. vojaci mozu byt na to hrdi
/ ? ale na druhej strane je Assange tiez moralista, resp etik – bojuje proti cenzure, za hodnoty slobody tlace a slobody prejavu, ciel ma odhalovat opresivne rezimy. chce vyriesit problem cenzury tlace a prejavu (press and whistleblowers)
/ ? su motivy WL moralisticke? alebo eticke? aky rozdel medzi moral and ethical? – asi nie, obe: good/evil, right/wrong, virtue/vice, justice..

super-empowered individuals
Military strategists have been talking about ‘super-empowered individuals’ by which they mean someone who
“is autonomously capable of creating a cascading event, […] a “system perturbation”; a disruption of system function and invalidation of existing rule sets to at least the national but more likely the global scale. The key requirements to become “superempowered” are comprehension of a complex system’s connectivty and operation; access to critical network hubs; possession of a force that can be leveraged against the structure of the system and a wilingness to use it”
http://zenpundit.blogspot.com/2006/10/super-empowered-individual-man-is.html
..this concept has been exclusively applied to terrorism and it reduces structural dynamics to individual actions.
=> individuals, supported by small, networked organisations, can now intervene in social dynamics at a systemic level, for the better or worse.

shows strenghts & weaknesses of being centred around single charismatic individual
weak: authoritarianism, lack of internal procedure, dangers of burnout and internal and external attacks on the credibility of that single person (if not worse)
/ tu sa ale mina.. otazka je ci je assange naozaj taky centralny… aj ked mi tuto ideu zatial nenarusilo nic… asi fakt je.

the response has been a mixture of equanimity and stunned silence. In Sweden, by comparison, thousands of people took to the streets when the first far-right MPs were elected that same month.
Wilders (PVV) has agreed to lend his support in parliament to a minority government of conservative Liberals (PVV) and the smaller Christian Democrats (CDA) + in return: freedom to pursue many of his favorite policy projects, including anti-immigrant measures and several openly anti-Muslim initiatives, including a burqa ban and closer monitoring of Islamic schools.
Even though PVV will not take ministerial responsibility, the coalition does depend on his support for its survival and has signed a formal agreement to that extent.
Denmark has had a similar construction in place since 2001, but its right-wing People’s Party is almost moderate compared with Wilders’ Party for Freedom.
The party’s platform calls Islam “mostly a political ideology” and wishes to deny it any of the considerations afforded a religion in the Netherlands.
Wilders: Prophet Mohammed is a “barbarian and a pedophile.”
“They are trying to hide his role, but it is clear that he is part of this government, whether he has a seat in it or not,” says Mariko Peters (GreenLeft).
Wilders sometimes makes the likes of Fox News host Glenn Beck, anti-Muslim blogger Pamela Geller, and even the most extreme fringes of the Tea Party crowd look like moderates.
Several Dutch media outlets have delved into ideological and financial ties between Wilders and American archconservatives such as David Horowitz, Daniel Pipes, and Jim DeMint.
Just as opponents of the Park51 project have accused its imam, Faisal Abdul Rauf, of radicalism, Wilders has tried to link the people behind a mosque that he opposes, Rotterdam’s Essalam mosque, to Islamic extremism. He suggested in parliamentary questions this January that the main donor for the mosque’s construction, Dubai’s Crown Prince Hamdan bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, could have ties to Afghanistan’s Taliban.
He has called for a “head rag tax” on women wearing headscarves. He favors banning the Quran, wants to close Muslim schools but not equivalent Christian or Jewish ones, wants to force immigrants to sign “assimilation contracts,” and wants to include the “Judeo-Christian character” of the state in the constitution.
Pijpers says that Wilders has more in common with the Tea Party activists in the United States than with any old-style European right-wing party, because he can’t really be classified as either right-wing or left-wing.
His party has also embraced a left-wing populist defense of the Netherlands’ besieged welfare system, and he scores points with his tough stance against crime, which he often links to immigrants.
His outspokenness has made him a hated figure for some Muslims, and he lives under constant police protection. Recently, an Australian imam called for his beheading, the last in a long line of threats. Wilders himself argued in July on the website muslimsdebate.com that he does not hate Muslims — he just opposes Islam and wants Muslims to liberate themselves from its shackles. Strikingly, he seems to have formed his low opinion of Arab and Muslim societies at a young age when he visited both Israel and Egypt and contracted a stomach bug in the latter.
In July, Wilders announced that he was setting up a Geert Wilders International Freedom Alliance aimed at stopping Muslim immigration to the West. He designated the United States as one of five countries that were “ripe” for his alliance, and he may have had this confirmed at the 9/11 rally in New York. Says Golyardi, “He sees that there are people who agree with him all over the world, and he wants to provide an umbrella for them, to found an anti-Islam international.”
Earlier, Wilders had even appealed to mainstream opinion in the United States and Europe by opposing the planned burning of the Quran in Florida, even though he has compared the Quran to Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf.
assertions by some Dutch politicians and analysts that once Wilders has been co-opted into the system, as he now is, his sharp edges will be blunted.
The mildness detected in his New York speech was at the time taken as a green light for the other parties to proceed with the talks and eventually reach an agreement with him.

Tabery & Šimečka pre Respekt

nejdůležitější výsledek voleb: 3 momenty: definitivní konec mečiarismu na Slovensku, neúspěch politiky rozeštvávání a nacionalismu a to, že středopravé strany sice nijak výrazně, ale přece jen získaly větší podporu než levicový populismus.
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ficov meciarizmus:
Agendu mečiarismu ve velké míře převzal premiér Fico, a to v podobě silného vůdcovského principu a státního paternalismu. Projevuje se to i ve stylu politiky, neustálého vytváření třídního nepřítele, chápání demokracie jako nadvlády většiny, chápání politiky jen a jen jako moci. Politický marketing byl v jeho případě podstatnější než obsah politiky a byl založený na silných propagandistických heslech o spravedlnosti a sociálním státě. U Fica to není mečiarismus v ryzí podobě – jako byly únosy, vraždy, omezení svobody slova. Mečiarismus byl v tomto rozsahu hrozný a navíc byl spojený s divokou privatizací, která přivedla zemi na pokraj státního bankrotu. Tuto podobu Ficova politika nemá, tu bych charakterizovala jako vláčnější.
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left / right:
bez přehánění říkám, že současné politické teorie jsou málo použitelné.
levicové a pravicové dělení je ve 21. století nefunkční. Jeho charakteristiky jsou definované pro průmyslovou společnost. my jsme informační společností. dnes už nejde použít ani definici sociálního státu pro 20. století.
Politika se dnes dělí hlavně na hodnotových principech vztahu svobody a zodpovědnosti. Tedy především na formu kolektivních práv versus občanská práva. Na politiku státního paternalismu versus politiku individuální občanské odpovědnosti.
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grecko:
půjčka je jen iluze záchrany.
je tady MMF, přes který si poradilo Lotyšsko.
den po volbách vláda zveřejnila deficit financí 6,7 % HDP, což je velmi vysoké číslo. A já se obávám, že je ještě vyšší.
Slovensko je v situaci, kdy se musíme ptát, za kolik procent nám někdo dá půjčku na půjčku jiné zemi.
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inspiro pre CZ:
jsme udrželi daňovou reformu. A musíme sice trochu opravit druhý pilíř důchodové reformy, ale to dokážeme velmi rychle. Máme dobře udělanou reformu veřejné správy, i když se musí dotáhnout do konce úprava kompetencí a finanční decentralizace, ale to nastartování se osvědčilo a je udělané poměrně kvalitně. A máme také dobře rozběhnutou rodinnou politiku.
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priority:
Pokud vezmeme jako prvořadou justici, co je na řadě potom?
Školství, protože hlavní problém Slovenska je dnes tvorba nových pracovních míst. Máme obrovskou míru nezaměstnanosti absolventů škol, ovšem ne proto, že by slovenské děti a studenti byli nešikovní, ale protože máme obrovskou propast mezi tím, jaké kvalifikace nabízejí školy a jaké kvalifikace jsou skutečně potřeba na trhu práce. Jinak nás ale bezpochyby čekají tři dominantní úkoly: spravedlnost, reforma soudnictví a odstraňování korupce, to je jeden balík. Pak nastartování ekonomiky a tvorba nových pracovních míst, takže hospodářská politika. Přirozeně navazuje reforma školství. To jsou základní priority.

Once a critical mass of people express interest, anybody can offer to teach the class. A small committee moderates the final steps of the process, including finding an instructor and scheduling the course. However, committee members typically step down after several months, making room for new committee members to join and keeping the system as open to transformation as possible.

Telic co-directors Sean Dockray and Fiona Whitton decided to discontinue Telic’s long-running program of exhibitions, performances, lectures, happenings, etc. and concentrate on The Public School.

We started the public school in our basement to be in conversation with the exhibition space (open to all kinds of conversation: agreement, contradiction, influence, etc). After about 6 months, we were nearing 5 years of exhibitions and we felt that the school was more exciting for us to do than the exhibitions…it allowed us to work with people whose practices we wanted to support (practices that were conceptual, process-based, research-oriented, or other flavors of non-object centered practice, things that weren’t widely recognized as art, and so on) in a very easy and organic way. The gallery and exhibition context, on the other hand, imposed all kinds of expectations that were rarely very useful for those practices. Even an exhibition that shows something in progress requires this level of exhibit-ability that was more of a distraction.

Also when we swapped the gallery for a school, we swapped a number of terms, which had their own effects: an exhibition maybe became a class, the audience became…students? When a student goes to a class, they go with different expectations and they are prepared to engage with the others and the subject in a different way. They are prepared to stay longer, ask questions, argue with others, etc.

We could work with projects that were still only an idea and help them come into fruition; we could work with projects that have been going on for 10 years; we could work with vague constellations of thought or people that barely amounted to a project. All of these possibilities made it exciting for us to switch models and start operating as a school.

There are so many art worlds, it’s difficult to answer this question…I think the public school provides a certain kind of resource or space, maybe like a cafe or a bar or a library that allows for art and non-art, for juxtaposition of people and territories and ideas. [..] And I always imagine how huge Los Angeles is, and how small our new space is, and really can’t understand the relationship when the scales are so astoundingly dissimilar.

The galleries here are pretty conservative and the young people and students coming out of schools and others who don’t participate solely in the commercial art market are pretty ambitious, energetic, and creative and so they just make their own contexts for doing things.

I don’t think it’s sustainable, but file sharing is resilient. That part is sustainable if what’s meant is something that will weather bad economies, legal threats, changes in technology, etc. AAAARG probably won’t. But I don’t think it matters; it’s not trying to be the new library. That said, I don’t think it will disappear, I don’t think anything ever does. The word promiscuity for the digital object I think is a really good one.

I think pdf readers are going to be another real problem because they will demonstrate that pdfs are a market, a useful copy of the real thing. (parenthetically, I love when people upload highly personalized scans. I much prefer these to fresh ebooks). As ebook readers demonstrate a market, then sites like AAAARG become intolerable because they sit right in the middle of that market and maybe demonstrate how that market is built through the production of scarcity and highly controlled supply. But like I said it never goes away. People have been scanning and sharing books for a long time.

Verso letter?
My response was “Of course we’ll comply. Cease and desist letters are no joke, especially when backed by 3 million per year in sales.” I’m in the camp that it’s not only about copyright, so I’m not going to refuse to budge. It’s about sharing and exchange of knowledge, so if someone asks that I take it down, I will. But I wish it were the author who would ask. I prefer to think more about the desires of authors and readers. Publishers have other stakes.

There’s obviously nothing natural about property, copyright, restrictions placed on distribution, etc. The kind of sharing that people find themselves wanting to engage in, if it becomes normalized, can suggest possibilities for other ways of thinking about these things (which don’t always rely on cease and desist letters, defensive postures, and territoriality).

That’s why I’m also more enthusiastic about taking a positive approach to all of this – its not about fighting copyright or standing up to publishers or something

act of sharing itself constituted a kind of conversation. Focusing too much on the comments leads to a reductive idea of conversation, although I have visited sites with great comments.

The issues section instead becomes a kind of conversation, because people add texts into other people’s issues. Also it is a way to articulate your own argument through selection, omission, etc. The “shared issues” are less predicated on “here is my collection” and more on “I wish there was this collection, but I don’t know what would go in it”. That moves it to something before the presentation/ exhibition/ publication stage — to the earlier, discursive stage.

From Wikipedia: “small is beautiful” and “make each program do one thing well”.

To make the case for “no technical solutions”, Hardin notes the limits placed on the availability of energy (and material resources) on Earth, and also the consequences of these limits for “quality of life”. To maximize population, one needs to minimize resources spent on anything other than simple survival, and vice versa.

hypothetical example of a pasture shared by local herders. individual herder will continue to add additional animals to his or her herd. However, since all herders reach the same rational conclusion, overgrazing and degradation of pasture is its long-term fate.

examples of latter day “commons”, such as the atmosphere, oceans, rivers, fish stocks, national parks, advertising, and even parking meters.

potential management solutions: commons problems including privatization, polluter pays, and regulation.

The metaphor illustrates the argument that free access and unrestricted demand for a finite resource ultimately dooms the resource through over-exploitation.

as architect consider “software” of space (sounds, smell, light, temperature, electromagnetic fields, social relationships, etc) rather than “hardware” (floors, walls, roof, etc) | The City… takes everything explored in Everyware as a given, and a point of departure | not just a social networking project for sensor data | emphasis on contextually specific “environments” rather than object-centric “sensors” | Extended Environments Markup Language (EEML) | backend capable of handling millions of users | internet of things | technologies of “extreme connectivity” | ‘eco-system’ of conversant devices, buildings & environments

Pachube evolved out three strands of thought:
1) the geographical non-specificity of architecture these days as people live their lives in constant connection with people in remote spaces
2) a desire to open up the production process of “smart homes” in reaction to current trends for placing the design and construction process solely in the hands of knowledgeable others.
3) an emphasis on contextually specific “environments” rather than object-centric “sensors”
– environment is a construction process and not a medium; nor is it a state or an entity
– one of the major failings of the usual ubicomp approach is to consider the connectivity and technology at the object-level, rather than at the environment-level. It’s built into much of contemporary Western culture to be object-centric, but at the level of “environment” we talk more about context, about disposition and subjective experience.

I asked Bruce Sterling to be a “visionary” adviser because he was one of the people early on to envisage the concepts and ramifications of “spimes” (his neologism for ’space-time objects’). While I agree that “spimes” are directly relevant, what I found most important from his conception was the concept of “wrangling” – being actively and productively engaged and responsible in the development of spimed environments. I think it was a crucial leap: to talk about “wranglers” rather than “end-users”.

A central task for reimagining society today is to develop an alternative management of the common wealth we share.

two distinct but related domains of the common:
– ECO ecological (natural) common [but this category is insufficient] – earth and all of its ecosystems, including the atmosphere, the oceans and rivers, and the forests, as well as all the forms of life that interact with them.
– ART social and economic (artificial) common [but this category is insufficient] – products of human labor and creativity that we share, such as ideas, knowledges, images, codes, affects, social relationships, and the like.

ECO & ART:
common in both domains confounds the traditional measures of economic value and imposes instead the value of life as the only valid scale of evaluation.

contradictions (ale ukazuju sa ako complementaries):
ECO – pro conservation, since earth is limited, logic of scarcity; ART – pro creation, open/limitless nature of production of common; ALE: both perspectives refer fundamentally to production/reproduction of forms of life, which are happening simultaneously (since eg. work-time vs non-work time collapsed)
ART – interests of humanity as central (ie. extend our politics to all humanity, overcome hierarchies/exclusions of class and property, gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity..); ECO – interests much broader than human/animal worlds; ALE: navzajom sa mozu ucit eko-aktivisti a humanrights-aktivisti

The claim for centrality of the common relies on the hypothesis that we are in the midst of an epochal shift from a capitalist economy centered on industrial production to one centered on what can be called immaterial or biopolitical production. Toni Negri and I have argued this hypothesis over the course of three books — Empire, Multitude, and Commonwealth.
– {industrial capitalism THEN} Industrial production has been central, rather, in the sense that the qualities of industry — its forms of mechanization, its working day, its wage relations, its regimes of time discipline and precision, and so forth — have progressively been imposed over other sectors of production and social life as a whole, creating not only an industrial economy but also an industrial society.
– {industrial capitalism IS OVER} industry no longer marks the hierarchical position in the various divisions of labor and, more significantly, that the qualities of industry are no longer being imposed over other sectors and society as a whole.
– {immaterial/biopolitical production NOW} (central position of industry is taken over by) production of immaterial goods or goods with a significant immaterial component, such as ideas, knowledges, languages, images, code, and affects (health care workers and educators, fast food workers, call center workers, and flight attendants). The cognitive and affective tools of immaterial production, the precarious, non-guaranteed nature of its wage relations, the temporality of immaterial production (which tends to destroy the structures of the working day and blur the traditional divisions between work-time and nonwork-time), as well as its other qualities are becoming generalized.
+ property: immobile (eg. land) => mobile (eg. commodities) => immaterial (discussions about patents/copyrights; question of exclusivity and reproductibility)

2 contradictions, 2 shared logics form significant basis for understanding guises of common & struggle to preserve/further them; foundation for linking forms of political activism aimed at the autonomy and democratic management of the common:

I. contradiction between private property and the common.
ART: bwn need for common in interest of productivity and need for private in interest of capitalist accumulation
ECO: bwn private nature of accumulation and social nature of resulting damages

II. the common defies traditional capitalist measures of value (or obey radically different scale based on value of life, which we have not yet invented)
ART: value of biopolitical/immaterial goods is immeasurable using traditional system of measure of econ.value; economists cast them as “externalities”, accountants as “intangible assets” (of esoteric value), (global bankrupt largely derives from this)
ECO: value of the common is immeasurable (eg. how much $ is damage costs of having half of Bangladesh under water? or permanent draught in Ethiopia? or destruction of trad. Inuit forms of life?)

watch out (when struggle for the common operate according to opposing logics in ECO and ART):
III. preserve ECO vs limitless prod ART
IV. humanity as frame of reference @ART vs broader @ECO

next: UN Climate Conference, Copenhagen, Dec 2009

next: the common @identity and identity politics; the common @social institutions (family, nation, ..)

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Santiago Sierra, MX

– paid drug-addicted Brazil prostitutes to have their backs tattooed by a straight horizontal line for a drug of their choice.
– hired 200 immigrants of African, Asian and eastern European origin, all of whom had dark hair, for an ‘action’ in which their hair was bleached.
– hired a group of unemployed men to push concrete blocks from one end of a gallery to the other.
– In an exhibition at P.S.1, New York, Person Remunerated for a Period of 360 Consecutive Hours Sierra hired a person to live behind a brick wall 24 hours a day for 15 days (September 17 – October 1, 2000) without having any further instructions or duties. P.S.1 staff slid food under a narrow opening at the base of the wall. The individual behind the wall was generally invisible to the audience but was allowed to relate to the other side through the small opening in the wall.

– In South Korea, he paid sixty-eight people twice that nation’s minimum wage to block the main entrance to the inauguration of Pusan’s International Contemporary Art Festival.
– On the occasion of the 2003 Venice Biennale he built a wall blocking off the entrance to the Spanish Pavilion. Visitors needed a Spanish passport to gain entry to the building, through the back door. But even then the visitor was confronted with an empty gallery.
– on the occasion of an exhibition by Sierra to mark the opening of a £500,000 extension to the Lisson Gallery, London, he barred the entrance to the gallery with a sheet of corrugated steel. Sierra comments on the considerable frustration of the invited London glitterati who turned up for the opening: ‘It was as though they were saying: “Just get me inside and give me a drink. That’s what I’ve come for”
– During the economic crisis in Argentina (1999–2002) the banks closed and protected their facades with corrugated steel. People demonstrated using a form of protest known as cacerolazo which consisted of banging pots and pans against the corrugated metal. In 2002 Sierra taped these sounds and sent CDs of the recording out to galleries in London, New York, Vienna, Frankfurt and Geneva (Jeffries 2002). The CD sleeve instructed the owner to put speakers in the window and turn the stereo up full volume during certain specified local times.

http://www.installationart.net/Chapter3Interaction/interaction04.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_Sierra

Thomas Hirschhorn, CH, 11 ben X
Bataille Monument, 2002, Documenta, Kassel
– He chose as his location the Friedrich-Wöhler Siedlung, a mixed Turkish-German social housing complex in a low socio-economic suburb of Kassel.
– ‘one thing has always been clear for me: I am an artist and not a social worker.’
– he assembled a team of people living in the Friedrich-Wöhler Siedlung who were willing to work on the monument for the eight euros an hour he paid them.
– to oversee the construction Hirschhorn moved into an apartment in the Siedlung
– He even convinced the people working for him to return his belongings when some of them broke into his apartment and stole his laptop, video, hi-fi and camera equipment.
– Like many artists of the 1990s and 2000s Hirschhorn acts as an entrepreneur, which is to say a boss, albeit a more or less enlightened boss

http://www.installationart.net/Chapter3Interaction/interaction03.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hirschhorn

4 scenarios w/ art+culture after crisis:
– consolation – mast na rany, podobne ako hollywood pocas great depression, feel-good filmy a hudba, people find solace in the social nature of arts events; to je ok, ale nezabudajte na minority, new art a innovation
– anger – a la punk v 70s
– business-as-usual, aj ludia v art/kult chcu spat bohate roky
– get real –
— talk to people, art have to find a new source of funds from millions of small donations (like obama)
— prepare for cuts – do more with less
— get much smarter at marketing
— free events/experiences, livestreaming
— don’t let mainstream media cut the arts programming
— use networks, involve people

now: art from periphery to heart of remaking society; because art isnt about leisure but about life

before: high culture (classical art forms) vs popular culture (cooking, watching tv, dancing, playing football)
now 3 interdependent spheres: publicly-funded culture (“what gets funded becomes culture”), commercial culture (gatekept by big companies similarly like pub-funded by state admins), home-made culture

“In this new model the arts are integrated into a wider cultural ecology so they become reconnected to everyday life”.
kulture sa konecne uzna zasadny podiel vo vzdelavani, ekonomike ci zahr.vztahoch.
Leadbeater: people want to enjoy, talk or do = passively sit and watch, socialise, and be creative.
20 yrs ago ‘do’ part was limited to few people. ‘talk’ part bola tiez dost obmedzena – divaci boli pasivni.
marginal [pub] + entertaing [comm] + amateur [home] = potent democratic expression.
Shoshana Zuboff: “there is a new kind of public out there, being made up of ‘new individuals who seek true voice, direct participation, unmediated influence and identity-based community because they are comfortable using their own experience as the basis for making judgements”.

via panel na Forum for Creative Economy v Prahe, marec 09, plus teraz kvoli iview s bishop

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velmi dobre keywordy – kriticke voci standardnej kunsthistorii
@ Visual Culture Reader (ed. Mirzoeff)

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video in 80s YU+RU