Comments for Continental Drift http://brianholmes.wordpress.com Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:33:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU Comment on FUTURE MAP by steven spielberg and video games http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/2007/09/09/future-map/#comment-4440 steven spielberg and video games Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:08:26 +0000 http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/2007/09/09/future-map/#comment-4440 <strong>steven spielberg and video games...</strong> As you seem to know what your doing blogging wise, do you know what the best time of the week is to blog and have them read?... steven spielberg and video games…

As you seem to know what your doing blogging wise, do you know what the best time of the week is to blog and have them read?…

]]> Comment on Some Reflections on Global Mapping by dr.woooo http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/some-reflections-on-global-mapping/#comment-4421 dr.woooo Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:13:54 +0000 http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/?p=349#comment-4421 in terms of possibilities, i think the otra campaign towards 2010 and the mexican movements are growing amazingly. the resurgency of the 'anti-summit, anti-cap movement in asia and canada 2010 etc is promising. how much the food riots are a zone of proletarian development i can only guess at this stage. I came of age politically in the early 90's a grim time. then things went off for a bit, i am hopeful that something big is around the corner. but who bloody knows. in terms of possibilities, i think the otra campaign towards 2010 and the mexican movements are growing amazingly. the resurgency of the ‘anti-summit, anti-cap movement in asia and canada 2010 etc is promising. how much the food riots are a zone of proletarian development i can only guess at this stage.

I came of age politically in the early 90’s a grim time. then things went off for a bit, i am hopeful that something big is around the corner. but who bloody knows.

]]> Comment on Some Reflections on Global Mapping by ed phillips http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/some-reflections-on-global-mapping/#comment-4408 ed phillips Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:13:13 +0000 http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/?p=349#comment-4408 Stunning, Brian. I hardly see anything quite like your articulate attempts to map the way we all carry this immense "globe" in our psychic flesh. I'm sorry that you don't by default post these missives to nettime. The diffuse war in the petrodollar corridors. The quite literally stunning display of power that is complete impotence. The consumers of deviance. I do note some interesting trends: Obama-demo-machine in tacit assumption of impotence makes gesture to keep Gates at DOD. The war machine is acknowledging its impotence in the face of urban, political war and is now funding attempts at cultural-politcal study and influence. The threat of conventional war reveals itself as mask for a diffuse political war in Iran. The petrodollar mini-axes of power are flexing their muscles: Iran, Venezuela, Russia. The sham unilateralism of anglophone powers reveals itself as a tacit alliance with the rest of the G8 to attempt to manage and control the chaos that reigns in the interstices of the white markets (the stans, west africa, etc.) Asian long century emerges alongside an intermittent set of hiccups in financialization. Stunning, Brian. I hardly see anything quite like your articulate attempts to map the way we all carry this immense “globe” in our psychic flesh. I’m sorry that you don’t by default post these missives to nettime.

The diffuse war in the petrodollar corridors. The quite literally stunning display of power that is complete impotence. The consumers of deviance.

I do note some interesting trends: Obama-demo-machine in tacit assumption of impotence makes gesture to keep Gates at DOD. The war machine is acknowledging its impotence in the face of urban, political war and is now funding attempts at cultural-politcal study and influence. The threat of conventional war reveals itself as mask for a diffuse political war in Iran.

The petrodollar mini-axes of power are flexing their muscles: Iran, Venezuela, Russia.

The sham unilateralism of anglophone powers reveals itself as a tacit alliance with the rest of the G8 to attempt to manage and control the chaos that reigns in the interstices of the white markets (the stans, west africa, etc.)

Asian long century emerges alongside an intermittent set of hiccups in financialization.

]]> Comment on One World, One Dream by justreading http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/one-world-one-dream/#comment-4360 justreading Fri, 30 May 2008 11:05:52 +0000 http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/one-world-one-dream/#comment-4360 | great chapter, i link to it from twitter | one spelling mistake: Großstadt (not Großtadt) | | great chapter, i link to it from twitter | one spelling mistake: Großstadt (not Großtadt) |

]]> Comment on FUTURE MAP by Recapturing Subversion « Continental Drift http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/2007/09/09/future-map/#comment-4347 Recapturing Subversion « Continental Drift Thu, 22 May 2008 19:08:49 +0000 http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/2007/09/09/future-map/#comment-4347 [...] –Future Map: Or, How the Cyborgs Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Surveillance [...] [...] –Future Map: Or, How the Cyborgs Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Surveillance [...]

]]> Comment on Network Maps, Energy Diagrams by Recapturing Subversion « Continental Drift http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/network-maps-energy-diagrams/#comment-4346 Recapturing Subversion « Continental Drift Thu, 22 May 2008 19:08:30 +0000 http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/network-maps-energy-diagrams/#comment-4346 [...] –Network Maps, Energy Diagrams: Structure and Agency in the Global System [...] [...] –Network Maps, Energy Diagrams: Structure and Agency in the Global System [...]

]]> Comment on NEOLIB GOES NEOCON by Acutia http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/2007/06/25/neolib-goes-neocon/#comment-4337 Acutia Tue, 20 May 2008 00:48:45 +0000 http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/2007/06/25/neolib-goes-neocon/#comment-4337 Good thorough overview Brian. Have anybody else noticed the prevalence around the web of really shallow understandings of Curtis's films, especially by those on the left addled by conspiracy fixations. I have the feeling that Curtis' research for "The Power of Nightmares" may have drawn strongly on both Paul Berman's "Terror and Liberalism" and maybe Buruma and Margalit's "Occidentalism". That's just my guess though. You can catch a recentish interview with Curtis regarding his views of the internet, its effects on news journalism and his hopes for how the internet will allow him to make his films even more complex and knotted with details. See: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/23/beeb_week_adam_curtis_2/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/20/adam_curtis_interview/ Good thorough overview Brian. Have anybody else noticed the prevalence around the web of really shallow understandings of Curtis’s films, especially by those on the left addled by conspiracy fixations.
I have the feeling that Curtis’ research for “The Power of Nightmares” may have drawn strongly on both Paul Berman’s “Terror and Liberalism” and maybe Buruma and Margalit’s “Occidentalism”. That’s just my guess though.

You can catch a recentish interview with Curtis regarding his views of the internet, its effects on news journalism and his hopes for how the internet will allow him to make his films even more complex and knotted with details.
See:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/23/beeb_week_adam_curtis_2/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/20/adam_curtis_interview/

]]> Comment on SWARMACHINE by Recapturing Subversion « Continental Drift http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/2007/07/21/swarmachine/#comment-4334 Recapturing Subversion « Continental Drift Sun, 18 May 2008 16:19:56 +0000 http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/2007/07/21/swarmachine/#comment-4334 [...] –Swarmachine: Activist Media Tomorrow [...] [...] –Swarmachine: Activist Media Tomorrow [...]

]]> Comment on ESCAPE THE OVERCODE by Recapturing Subversion « Continental Drift http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/2007/07/20/escape-the-overcode/#comment-4333 Recapturing Subversion « Continental Drift Sun, 18 May 2008 16:19:36 +0000 http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/2007/07/24/escape-the-overcode/#comment-4333 [...] –Escape the Overcode: Guattari’s Schizoanalytic Cartographies [...] [...] –Escape the Overcode: Guattari’s Schizoanalytic Cartographies [...]

]]> Comment on The Potential Personality by Recapturing Subversion « Continental Drift http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/2007/04/08/the-potential-personality/#comment-4332 Recapturing Subversion « Continental Drift Sun, 18 May 2008 16:19:15 +0000 http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/2007/04/08/the-potential-personality/#comment-4332 [...] –The Potential Personality: Trans-Subjectivity in the Society of Control [...] [...] –The Potential Personality: Trans-Subjectivity in the Society of Control [...]

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