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Matze Schmidt | 11 Feb 19:43

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ACTA Act

In the subway I had to ask three young women, who had tacked the 
word on their jackets or put it on their mouth protection, "What is 
ACTA?". One of them just said: "Youtube". This direct and perfect 
hook-up of the locutive and the illocutive parts within the act 
of speech <in the speech act theory the act of speeking which 
linguistically always means something extralinguistic>, by which 
Reality and Adress of its Finding coincide, caused in my case -- 
smart online -- already the perlocution, this action convinced for 
operation, in which the result of the speech act time-wise coincides 
with its execution. I don't remember, had forgotten every plea. 
The trade agreement that has been protested in February was already 
not up-to-date anymore in the seconds of the selection of 
apppropriate search engines and was discarded by the government in 
a play of words, "ad acta" in the words of the electronic press.

But the act and its linguistical appeal (or the other way round), 
did they not fall apart in this? If this agreement complicates 
juridically more than it resolves for the capital, therefore harms 
the mittelstand, and when the resistance forms en massive while 
simultaneously they abandon the intentions to ratify the

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Felix Stalder | 12 Feb 11:53

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Like 10'000s of people across Europe, I spent a few freezing hours
yesterday at the local anti-ACTA rally. Vienna in my case. Even the
police estimated the turn-out to be around 3500 people, which is about
10 times the number I expected before hand.

The event was very 'young male geek' oriented, with a few sprinkles
of diversity, mainly some political parties, including some some
right wing fringe parties I had never heard of before, and sizable
contingent of young people who were hard to pin-point in terms of
their appearance. Normal, like the confused lookers-on who had their
Saturday afternoon shopping interrupted by people chanting obscure
acronyms. How about “ACTA AD ACTA” as rousing slogan?

It's amazing to see that after 10-15 years of arguing these things
in relative obscurity, they have hit the mainstream. It strikes me
more than ever that there is a big generational divide between those
who take Internet culture as common sense and those for whom it's
weird, or, at least new, in comparison to an old common sense. For
the first group, ACTA is both very personal – since it's interferes
with their intimate day-to-day environment – and also symptomatic
for corruptness of the entire system as they suddenly have come to
understand it, by coming of age during the crisis. For the other
group, it's a minor abstract issue, and, by and large, business as
usual, simply confirming their well-honed cynicism.

Every generation needs a political fight that allows them to relate
politics to their personal life and experience how power interferes
in their own everyday world, rather than understanding it as some
far-way abstraction. I think for a whole generation, these types

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Patrice Riemens | 12 Feb 12:37

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Rats! I missed 'my own' demo here in Amsterdam due to forgetfulness ...

In last w/e Dutch paper of record there was an intriguing snippet of
information, burried in the general description of the juridic chaos in
cyberspace, alleging that the big 'content providers' had good reasons to
believe that the under 25s were in favor of paying for access, and that it
were the oldies, who'd seen the Internet from its beginning, who were
clinging to the 'free' model (the 'lost generation' - go to jail! . I
do not think this to be true, yet, if so, even partially (the exponential
increase of Internet access thru mobiles, definitely a non-free solution,
was mentioned as an aside), then can it be that the whole lobbying was a -
quite succesful - delaying tactic till paytolls & tools were developed and
in place?

Cheerio, p+4D!

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> Like 10'000s of people across Europe, I spent a few freezing hours
> yesterday at the local anti-ACTA rally. Vienna in my case. Even the
> police estimated the turn-out to be around 3500 people, which is about
> 10 times the number I expected before hand.
>
> The event was very 'young male geek' oriented, with a few sprinkles
> of diversity, mainly some political parties, including some some
> right wing fringe parties I had never heard of before, and sizable
> contingent of young people who were hard to pin-point in terms of
> their appearance. Normal, like the confused lookers-on who had their
> Saturday afternoon shopping interrupted by people chanting obscure
> acronyms. How about âACTA AD ACTAâ as rousing slogan?
>

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Vuk Ćosić | 14 Feb 07:24

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Hello

may I offer a bit of early morning dogma:

# Something is happening, again

Surely someone wrote in these seventeen years of nettime a story of
information society domesticating the internet, removing the thorny
bits that might disrupt the status quo *too much*.

It is sincerely sad for senior participants in information society
to watch how the vision of free/open is being attacked and partly
replaced by far less primitive and obviously damaging vision of
fencing/charging.

# The internet is teaching us to think society

In order to understand this better I am reading (and thinking) texts
about eco systems and am seeing a cardinal difference between actors
who think that way and the others.

I am trying to look at our external reality as some indivisible hybrid
where the digital sphere with the structure of our communication
network has implicitly nudged the society away from the fighting
mode of the hierarchies towards a more collaborative mode of eco
systems. The nudge is of course behaving like a pendulum, so we get
counter-reformations here and there.

# We have a role

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