[NetBehaviour] nominated for Father Christmas

[Annie Abrahams]

I will pass this on
thanks Ruth

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 3:25 PM, ruth catlow <ruth.catlow at furtherfield.org>wrote:

>  On 28/12/2011 12:22, manik wrote:
>
> ...HI RUTH & OTHER...ROB IS DEFINITIVE 'MAN OF THE YEAR' ON
> NETBEHAVIOUR...WE WISH TO ADD;'INOO' MOST IMPORTANT /BESIDE ALL OTHER
> POINTZ/ IS THAT NEW PEOPLE ON NB AT LEAST TRY TO GET INVOLVE IN SOCIAL
> STREAM TROUGH DISCUS AND PARTICIPATE ON OTHER WAYZ ON NB...WE ARE
> AWARE  THAT MOST OF US HAVE NO FRESH  IDEA/HOPPE IT'S TEMPORARY/ HOW TO
> GIVE CONTRIBUTION TO UNAVOIDABLE NEW DISCOURSE IN GLOBAL SOCIAL CHANGE IN
> THE WORLD/THAT MEAN TO CHANGE THING FROM BAD TO GOOD ON GLOBAL LEVEL/ ...WE
> ALL FEEL IN OUR HEARTS THAT CHANGE MUST BE... BUT CAN'T EXPLICATE RIGHT
> NOW...BEST WISHES FOR HOLLYDAYS...MANIK...DECEMBER...2011...
>
> Hi MANIK
> you make good points.
> I agree that we probably share an urgent and heartfelt sense of need for
> fundamental Global Change.
>
> This competition has just been announced. Asking people to write a
> paragraph reversing the Panopticon effect of the Internet of Things to
> envision the City of Trust in the freedom society.
> http://www.theinternetofthings.eu/content/new-years-contest-panopticon-metaphor-internet-things-%E2%80%93-why-not-if-it-were-opposite
>
> " What could be the metaphor of a free society where individuals are
> endowed with the capability to exploit their talents and realise their
> dreams, where social groups stand together, and where organisations adopt
> an ethical conduct? If we accept that Panopticon can be the metaphor for
> the surveillance society, the City of Control, the human enslaved by his
> objects, what could be the opposite concept for the freedom society, the
> City of Trust, the empowered individual?"
>
> I think it's an excellent question.
>
> Answers anyone?
>
> cheers
> Ruth
>
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* helen varley jamieson <helen at creative-catalyst.com>
> *To:* netbehaviour at netbehaviour.org
> *Sent:* Wednesday, December 28, 2011 11:02 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [NetBehaviour] nominated for Father Christmas
>
>  thanks to you too, ruth! :) hope you & marc are having a good break &
> keeping warm.
> waving from the southern summer :)
>
> On 25/12/11 12:50 AM, ruth catlow wrote:
>
> I was about to nominate Rob (and his links series) for this year's Year
> Round Father Christmas of Netbehaviour- a combo of timely, informative and
> pleasurable resources- each collection hangs together with mysterious and
> joyous coherence.
>
> Then I thought of all the other sparkly wonders that have dropped into my
> inbox from all you others NBers
>
> These are some of the things I have particularly loved in NB this year
>
>    - invitations to live networked performances: music, cyberformance,
>    collaborative (bodily and avatar) performance
>    - collaborations and streams of drawings, paintings, videos, sound:
>    everyday, visceral, playful, strange, brain-shape-shifting, machinic
>    - steady attention and inventive responses to the many upheavals in
>    the wider world
>    - people new to NB finding wayz to introduce themselves, their
>    practices and join the conversation
>    - tributes and memorials to the passing of many fine, strange and
>    imaginative people
>    - torrents of (sometimes unprocessable) practice and theory springing
>    up and washing all over the place
>    - all the conversations: thoughtful, grouchy, bitter, funny, informed,
>    informing, theoretical, flippant, just-plain-wrong, brutal, embarrassing
>    and illuminating.
>
> Thanks and warm festive fuzzies to you all.
>
> Ruth
>
>
> --
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>
> helen varley jamieson: creative catalyst       helen at creative-catalyst.com   http://www.creative-catalyst.comhttp://www.make-shift.nethttp://www.upstage.org.nz
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