Issuedrinks April 2008

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[fc-nettime-nl@plaintext.cc: [Nettime-nl] [event] The Map Is not the Territory?! - Mapping as critical?investigation]

by Koen Martens

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Well, you are all reading the nettime list of course, but still: - ----- Forwarded message from Florian Cramer <fc-nettime-nl(a)plaintext.cc> ----- The Map Is not the Territory?! - Mapping as critical investigation Lectures and presentations by Bureau d'Etudes (FR), Theo Deutinger (AU/NL), Christoph Wachter and Mathias Jud (CH), Michael Murtaugh and Piet Zwart Institute Media Design M.A. students Piet Zwart Institute, WdKA, Mauritsstraat 36, 3012 GC Rotterdam Wednesday, April 16th, 19:30-22:00hrs "Mapping" refers to different yet related practices. Information mapping is not simply visualization of political and business statistics, but increasingly employed by contemporary artists, designers and activists as a medium of critical research and political contestation. Classical cartography, on the other hand, has become a 'hot' economic and cultural issue ever since services like Google Maps have suggested that public space and its representation can be marketed as one whole. Has the map merged with the territory, or do critical mappings insist on difference? Presenters: - - Bureau d'Etudes is a Paris-based group that produces maps of contemporary political, social and economical systems as visual analyses of transnational capitalism - - Theo Deutinger is a Rotterdam-based architect and maker of urbanist and economic-cultural maps that have appeared among others in Vrij Nederland - - Christoph Wachter and Mathias Jud are Berlin- and Zurich-based artists; their web site "Zone Interdite" collects and displays data on military exclusion zones - - Piet Zwart Institute staffer Michael Murtaugh and Media Design M.A. students will present critical information mappings created in the course This event is part of the EU-funded international research project A Topological Approach to Cultural Dynamics, and will be followed by the public event "Test_Lab: Topology" on Thursday, April 17th, 20:00 at V2_ Eendrachtstraat 10, 3012 XL Rotterdam. - -- Florian Cramer, Course Director Media Design MA, Piet Zwart Institute Willem de Kooning Academy Hogeschool Rotterdam T +31 (0)10 7947402 http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdma ______________________________________________________ * Verspreid via nettime-nl. Commercieel gebruik niet * toegestaan zonder toestemming. <nettime-nl> is een * open en ongemodereerde mailinglist over net-kritiek. * Meer info, archief & anderstalige edities: * http://www.nettime.org/. * Contact: Menno Grootveld (rabotnik(a)xs4all.nl). - ----- End forwarded message ----- - -- K.F.J. Martens, Sonologic, http://www.sonologic.nl/ Networking, hosting, embedded systems, unix, artificial intelligence. Public PGP key: http://www.metro.cx/pubkey-gmc.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH/HICktDgRrkFPpYRAq+XAJ0QLGpWIq5aZwSmZg2j6QgQONQdHACeIbju G/68Ig7lOm+gadqkzZUoGco= =Lt0+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[editor@eff.org: EFFector 21.12a: EFF Uncovers Congressional Listening Program]

by Koen Martens

:) ----- Forwarded message from EFFector list <editor(a)eff.org> ----- EFFector Vol. 21, No. 12a April 1, 2008 editor(a)eff.org A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation ISSN 1062-9424 [snip] * Spy Agency Announces New Social Network Site Move over Facebook and MySpace -- the NSA is now in the social networking business. This week, the NSA announced SpySpace.com -- a social networking site developed by the NSA itself. SpySpace.com will allow ordinary Americans to instantly share their private data with the government -- eliminating the NSA's reliance on cumbersome requirements such as warrants. SpySpace.com allows users to upload personal data about who their friends are, what sites they visit, what books and newspapers they are reading, and where they live directly into a massive database controlled by the NSA. Messages sent though the site will be automatically copied -- without warrants -- to a secure room controlled by the NSA. Third party apps make it easy to tag your friends as "suspicious" or "unpatriotic." Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell hailed the site's potential. "Since Congress has so far failed to protect telecoms against lawsuits, wholesale domestic spying is more difficult than ever. SpySpace will give our agents the access they need to protect Americans in their homes -- all legally, and all without warrants or other restrictions." SpySpace apologist Richard Esguerra expressed enthusiasm for the new site. "I think it's neat. I'm not doing anything wrong, so I don't have anything to hide. And if I can save the government the few seconds it takes to get a warrant, I'm helping my country fight evildoers." The use of social networking sites has exploded in recent years, with millions of people making private information public by uploading data about their social networks, consumption habits, and travel patterns. For more about social networking sites and the growing potential for privacy violations: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/09/myspace-and-facebook-plan-use-personal… For this complete post: http://www.eff.org/pages/04/01 [snip] ----- End forwarded message ----- -- K.F.J. Martens, Sonologic, http://www.sonologic.nl/ Networking, hosting, embedded systems, unix, artificial intelligence. Public PGP key: http://www.metro.cx/pubkey-gmc.asc Wondering about the funny attachment your mail program can't read? Visit http://www.openpgp.org/

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