John Armitage on Wed, 3 Oct 2001 20:37:15 +0200 (CEST) |
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<nettime> Autonogram 8: Autonomedia and 9/11 |
[Hi all, here is some information and a few articles on NYC 9.11 for those whom Ben at Autonomedia in NYC calls 'dissident voices'. John.] ===================================================== From: Ben at Autonomedia [mailto:ben@autonomedia.org] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 8:18 PM To: Recipient List Suppressed Subject: Autonogram 8: Autonomedia and 9/11 Greetings -- On September 11, I made it over to Autonomedia Headquarters at about 10 in the morning. Our building is about two blocks from the East River on the Brooklyn side, and one wall of windows gives a view of lower Manhattan that was sometimes described as "stunning." There were a lot of other words for it that morning, and as we watched both towers come tumbling down, we continually asked each other "what can this mean?" and "what's going to happen now?" An interesting aspect of that morning was that almost no mainstream media outlets were able to broadcast, as their transmitters were downed, and the one TV station we COULD get was necessarily improvising -- there were no animated graphics or catchphrases yet, no Ground Zero or Infinite Justice to shape our consciousness of this day's events. There was not yet any meaning to any of it, just images and intensely lived time. That long moment of weird purity would end soon enough, of course, and since then the struggle for an autonomous media has felt even more vitally important. The "Forum" part of the Autonomedia web site, the Interactivist Info Exchange (a joint project with ABC No Rio and the InterActivist Network), is a dynamic clearinghouse of articles and discussion posted by its registered users and random guests, and has become an immensely valuable resource in these last weeks. Dissident voices haven't had an easy time of it, but so far over 270 articles have been published to our site, some of which have stirred up lively discussion within the site. If you haven't explored the Info Exchange yet, please take a few minutes to browse its contents, and register if you feel so inspired. Registration isn't required to read articles or leave comments, but is necessary to post full articles; also, it's free, and the information won't be used for anything slimey. Here's a list of a few articles posted in the last three weeks: An Anti-Authoritarian Response to the War Efforts http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/22/1756209 Interview with Afghani Left Revolutionary http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/28/1537215 Chomsky Responds to Hitchens & Further Questions on U.S. Politics http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/30/1239252 Three Political Websites Downed After Government "Homeland Security" Threat http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/30/1859212 The Anti-Globalization Movement after 9/11 by George Caffentzis of Midnight Notes http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/01/164256 Short Comment from Michael Hardt, Co-Author of 'Empire', on September 11th http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/26/1250203 Post WTC Review of Hardt and Negri's "Empire" from the London Review of Books http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/01/1137233 One Hundred Raids on Italian Radicals, Sixty Detained, Numerous Firebombings http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/20/1541210 and the first post on the topic, with some very interesting replies, World Trade crater http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/11/1720252 So, have a look, register if you like, and help keep free and autonomous media healthy and vital. bests, Ben at Autonomedia * * * * * # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net