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1. Re: yasminers; pirate care for the YASMIN PHOENIX
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2. YASMIN next steps, a new YASMIN discussion (YASMIN DISCUSSIONS)
3. Re: yasmin phoenix, pirates, phoenicians and etruscans and
and emerging digi-indigenous ingenious natives (YASMIN DISCUSSIONS)
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Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2021 09:32:30 +0000
From: YASMIN DISCUSSIONS <yasmin_discussions@ntlab.gr>
To: yasmin_discussions@ntlab.gr
Subject: Re: [Yasmin_discussions] yasminers; pirate care for the
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Actually, I don't think my update got through to everyone on the list.
(My subscription hadn't been confirmed, I suspect.) So I'm sending it
again. Apologies to anyone who has already seen this.
Gary
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Roger,
Thank you for the generous introduction. You ask if I have an 'update on
how pirate philosophy might be relevant in the post pandemic' world?
One thing to mention here would be the Pirate Care project:
https://pirate.care/
This began with the Pirate Care conference, organised by the Centre for
Postdigital Cultures (CPC) at Coventry University
(https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures/),
which is where I work, and held in June
2019:https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/about-us/research-events/2019/pirate-care-conference/
This led in turn to the Pirate Care Syllabus that some of my CPC
colleagues (including Valeria Graziano, Tomislav Medak and Marcell Mars)
helped collectively produce, also in 2019:
https://syllabus.pirate.care/topic/piratecareintroduction/#on-the-concept-of-pirate-care.
They were inspired to do so by the crowdsourced hashtag syllabi that
have been generated in association with social justice movements,
including the first round of Black Lives Matter protests. (The latter
saw the development of the #FergusonSyllabus in 2014, for instance.)
The Pirate Care Syllabus is a bottom-up response to the ongoing crisis
in care. It's designed:
a) to document the many self-organised and often technologically-enabled
practices of collective care that have been emerging over the period of
austerity (beginning in 2010) in response to poverty, precarity, cuts to
public healthcare, welfare and educational institutions, lack of
affordable housing and the criminalisation of migration;
b) to build resources for community teaching and study from these
practices.
An online syllabus allowing for collaborative writing, publishing and
remixing, the Pirate Care Syllabus covers topics such as the
Criminalization of Solidarity, Commoning Care, Sea Rescue as Care,
Housing Struggles, Psycho-Social Autonomy and Community Safety from
Racialized Policing.
These were added to in 2020 with ?Flatten the Curve, Grow the Care: What
Are We Learning from Covid-19?. Considered to be still too much in
process to have settled into a syllabi in its own right just yet, this
is conceived more as a collective note-taking effort to document the
wave of self-organised mutual aid initiatives foregrounding? ?care,
labour, technology and disobedience? that are being generated in
response to the coronavirus pandemic
(https://syllabus.pirate.care/topic/coronanotes).
The idea of both the Pirate Care Syllabus and ?Flatten the Curve, Grow
the Care? is to offer social movements in Italy, Croatia the UK and
beyond 'a technological framework and pedagogical process that helps
them transform their shared analysis of present confrontations and
reflections on past mobilisations into a learning material that can be
used to help others learn from their knowledge?
(https://syllabus.pirate.care/topic/piratecareintroduction/#on-making-a-syllabus-technopolitical-pedagogies).
For more, or for just a quick introduction, see details of the October
2020 Pirate Care: Learning From Disobedience exhibition in Rijeka:
http://drugo-more.hr/en/pirate-care/
Cheers, Gary
On 29/01/2021 18:28, YASMIN DISCUSSIONS wrote:
> yasminers
> doug hall shared his update on his concept of 'pirate philosophy: from
> his 2016 book
> hew draws your attention in particular to the links he sent us- and
> yes i think Yasmin Phoenicians should read pirate care syllabus and
> apply it as appropriate https://syllabus.pirate.care/
>
> thanks Doug, lets pirate on with the post pandemic provocateurs at your heels
>
> roger malina
>
> https://pirate.care/pages/concept/
> Pirate Care is a transnational research project and a network of
> activists, scholars and practitioners who stand against the
> criminalization of solidarity & for a common care infrastructure.
>
> Pirate Care, a syllabus
>
> We live in a world where captains get arrested for saving people?s
> lives on the sea; where a person downloading scientific articles faces
> 35 years in jail; where people risk charges for bringing
> contraceptives to those who otherwise couldn?t get them. Folks are
> getting in trouble for giving food to the poor, medicine to the sick,
> water to the thirsty, shelter to the homeless. And yet our heroines
> care and disobey. They are pirates.
>
> ________________________________
>
> Pirate Care is a research process - primarily based in the
> transnational European space - that maps the increasingly present
> forms of activism at the intersection of ?care? and ?piracy?, which in
> new and interesting ways are trying to intervene in one of the most
> important challenges of our time, that is, the ?crisis of care? in all
> its multiple and interconnected dimensions.
>
> These practices are experimenting with self-organisation, alternative
> approaches to social reproduction and the commoning of tools,
> technologies and knowledges. Often they act disobediently in expressed
> non-compliance with laws, regulations and executive orders that
> criminalise the duty of care by imposing exclusions along the lines of
> class, gender, race or territory. They are not shying risk of
> persecution in providing unconditional solidarity to those who are the
> most exploited, discriminated against and condemned to the status of
> disposable populations.
>
> The Pirate Care Syllabus we present here for the first time is a tool
> for supporting and activating collective processes of learning from
> these practices. We encourage everyone to freely use this syllabus to
> learn and organise processes of learning and to freely adapt, rewrite
> and expand it to reflect their own experience and serve their own
> pedagogies.
>
> 8th March 2020 - Please Note: The Pirate Care Syllabus is still work
> in progress. Some topics and sessions are still under development,
> more will be created during the residency at the Kunsthalle (beginning
> of April) and beyond.
>
> Roger in Dallas, please phone/txt/ +15108532007 if urgent
>
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Gary Hall
Professor of Media
Director of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Faculty of Arts & Humanities, Coventry University:
http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures
http://www.garyhall.info
Latest:
Book: A Stubborn Fury: How Writing Works in Elitist Britain:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury/
Forthcoming:
Chapter: ?Postdigital Politics?, in Cornelia Sollfrank, Shuhsa Niederberger and Felix Stalder, eds, Aesthetics of the Commons:
https://www.diaphanes.com/titel/aesthetics-of-the-commons-6419
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Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2021 02:46:41 +0200
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Subject: [Yasmin_discussions] YASMIN next steps, a new YASMIN
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Dear YASMINers,
Roger has initiated a new discussion on the future of YASMIN in a very
inspiring manner with some very relevant ideas, followed by Gary Hall,
Aleksandra Dulic, Gregory Garvey, Aviva Rahmani.
YASMIN has been going on since 2005, that is a bit more than 15 years now.
It has been almost entirely based on voluntary work by a team of moderators
and has been hosted in the servers of the National and Kapodistrian
University of Athens for most of this time. We have gone through 3 different
phases and have kept most communications in respective archives.
Recently, we have started discussing about the future of YASMIN, in the very
difficult times that we are going through. Although activity in the
discussions and announcements list has been rather minimal during recent
months, YASMIN still seems relevant to many and indeed it is still very
important to us as a community. For this reason we thought that it is
important to maintain the YASMIN community and to initiate this discussion
about the future of YASMIN with all members of this community.
* What would we like to see YASMIN evolving into in the post-pandemic
era ?
* We started YASMIN as a network of artists, scientists, engineers,
theoreticians and institutions promoting collaboration in art, science and
technology around the Mediterranean Rim and beyond. Is this what we still
want ? How about investigating further the connections "beyond" ?
* What would a relaunched (but sustainable) YASMIN be like ? a mailing
list, a web site, anything else ?
All this may seem a bit too YASMIN-centric, while the whole world is in such
a turmoil. But in this turmoil it seems that communicating through YASMIN is
only positive for many of us and maybe it is something we need to keep and
probably enrich.
Roger's suggestions and Gary's ideas on Pirate philosophy and Pirate Care
seem very relevant to start with. I would suggest that we could continue
this discussion for the following weeks and then possibly organize a live
on-line meeting to finalize the discussion and agree on the future of
YASMIN.
Looking forward to the next steps
Best wishes
Dimitris
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Dimitris Charitos
Associate Professor
Department of Communication and Media Studies
Head of Department of Digital Arts and Cinema
School of Economics and Political Sciences
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
vedesign [at] otenet [dot] gr
URL: vedesign.gr
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Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2021 01:52:58 +0000
From: YASMIN DISCUSSIONS <yasmin_discussions@ntlab.gr>
To: roger malina <rmalina@alum.mit.edu>,
"yasmin_announcements@ntlab.gr" <yasmin_announcements@ntlab.gr>,
"yasmin_discussions@ntlab.gr" <yasmin_discussions@ntlab.gr>
Subject: Re: [Yasmin_discussions] yasmin phoenix, pirates, phoenicians
and etruscans and and emerging digi-indigenous ingenious natives
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Yasmin Phoenicians!
Among stubborn socio-political/cultural bulwarks in need of being pirated by a certain 21st century progressive onset of activism, the dualist notion of a co-existing natural/supernatural reality to all things looms large. I think huge, actually -- elephant-in-the-room gigantic. Disinformation and alternative truths were not invented by Donald Trump -- they form the mass social-cultural backbone for all of human history -- i.e., an entirely anti-science notion that beneath its physical facade, the Universe is governed by supernatural forces. Not to mention the Earth itself, and in the face of today's advanced science, the muck of a deeply rooted and institutionalized, powerful and enormously wealthy supernatural belief complex among the planet's human animals, coupled with an inability of human scientists themselves to exploit and communicate the liberating non-supernatural spirituality and ontological meaning inherent in their simple search for a truth of things, is like a termite infestation in the woodwork structures of progressive desire for change.
I don't mean religions per se, there are many humanitarian ones or even a God notion whatever that means. It all begins with the stubborn fictional meme from our ancient past of "supernatural," derailing the momentum toward critical paths to our future at the 21st century. The notion of spirit, that being a profoundly emotional connection to existence, needs to be pirated from the falsely omniscious supernatural-based institutions that wield it, robbed from those pretenders and given back to the "natural" (i.e. science) in which it is properly nested, imbued with the rich biological sensations of meaning that evolution has gifted us as a reward for uncovering truth. Art excavating in the terrains of science, can reveal that where the scientists could not.
Stephen Nowlin
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From: roger malina <rmalina@alum.mit.edu>
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2021 12:19 PM
To: yasmin_announcements@ntlab.gr; yasmin_discussions@ntlab.gr
Subject: yasmin phoenix, pirates, phoenicians and etruscans and and emerging digi-indigenous ingenious natives
Yasminers
and in particular Dalila Honorato, Stephen Nowlin and Luca Forcucci
and Gullermo Munoz
Dalila triggered the metaphor of YASMIN PHOENIX for the work we are
starting to have a new different YASMIN rise from the ashes of the
pandemic- let me add that we should think as yasminers as pirates
Immediately it triggered my memory of reading Gary Hall's Pirate
Philosophy https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/pirate-philosophy__;!!Fh--17vRJmFW!h87pOpvBVOSMBCJEoYBf9xn0QDi5wgjBhCBipq_3iQpbigN8Ir1emxYySevwLtWHNujTwyof$ and his
unpacking the very useful innovation role that pirates played in the
Mediterranean- i have copied this email to him in case he has an
update on how pirate philosophy might be relevant in the post pandemic
digi-indigenous culture that the digi-natives are inventing as we read
the new rituals, customs and behaviours for the post pandemic world
and its increasing virtual reality- and we digital elders stand back
and notice but don't meddle- ok digi-natives take over YASMIN PHOENI
secondly YASMIN moderator Guillermo Munoz co founded the group in
spain called "pirates of science'
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.piratasdelaciencia.com/blog/quienes-somos/__;!!Fh--17vRJmFW!h87pOpvBVOSMBCJEoYBf9xn0QDi5wgjBhCBipq_3iQpbigN8Ir1emxYySevwLtWHNrQ2xq-4$ so maybe the
pirate metaphor could be helpful as we work on the helping the YASMIN
PHOENIX arise from the ashes with the help of the YASMIN pirates and
phoenicians-- i have copied Guillermo also in case he has some
thoughts too
luca forcucci also suggested: I am all in for the flight, and let's
not forget the Etruscans !
all the best Luca
and stephen nowlin: Roger -- as our nearest star rises seemingly anew
over a political return to some sanity here in the U.S., your news
feels timely and welcomed. Happy to climb aboard the flight of the
YASMIN Phenix!
and
Roger Malina
more on gary hall below:
Gary Hall is a critical theorist and media philosopher working in the
areas of digital culture, politics and technology. He is Professor of
Media at Coventry University, UK, where he directs the Centre for
Postdigital Cultures which brings together media theorists,
practitioners, activists and artists.
He is the author of a number of books, including The Inhumanist
Manifesto (Techne Lab, 2017), Pirate Philosophy (MIT Press, 2016) and
The Uberfication of the University (Minnesota UP, 2016).
How philosophers and theorists can find new models for the creation,
publication, and dissemination of knowledge, challenging the received
ideas of originality, authorship, and the book.
In Pirate Philosophy, Gary Hall considers whether the fight against
the neoliberal corporatization of higher education in fact requires
scholars to transform their own lives and labor. Is there a way for
philosophers and theorists to act not just for or with the
antiausterity and student protestors??graduates without a future??but
in terms of their political struggles? Drawing on such phenomena as
peer-to-peer file sharing and anticopyright/pro-piracy movements, Hall
explores how those in academia can move beyond finding new ways of
thinking about the world to find instead new ways of being theorists
and philosophers in the world.
Hall describes the politics of online sharing, the battles against the
current intellectual property regime, and the actions of Anonymous,
LulzSec, Aaron Swartz, and others, and he explains Creative Commons
and the open access, open source, and free software movements. But in
the heart of the book he considers how, when it comes to scholarly
ways of creating, performing, and sharing knowledge, philosophers and
theorists can challenge not just the neoliberal model of the
entrepreneurial academic but also the traditional humanist model with
its received ideas of proprietorial authorship, the book, originality,
fixity, and the finished object. In other words, can scholars and
students today become something like pirate philosophers?
and the phoenicians:
The Phoenicians came to prominence following the collapse (c. 1150 BC)
of most major cultures during the Late Bronze Age. They were renowned
in antiquity as adept merchants, expert seafarers, and intrepid
explorers.[citation needed] They developed an expansive maritime trade
network that lasted over a millennium, becoming the dominant
commercial power for much of classical antiquity. Phoenician trade
also helped facilitate the exchange of cultures, ideas, and knowledge
between major cradles of civilization such as Greece, Egypt, and
Mesopotamia. After its zenith in the ninth century BC, the Phoenician
civilization in the eastern Mediterranean slowly declined in the face
of foreign influence and conquest, though its presence would remain in
the central and western Mediterranean until the second century BC.
PS words matter: nina czegledy thinks the term 'digi-indigenous' is an
inappropriate appropriation of the values of indigenous cultures
Roger in Dallas, please phone/txt/ +15108532007 if urgent
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