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(for those who wanna get onto this autonomedia newsletter, please write to ben. /geert) From: "Ben at Autonomedia" <ben@autonomedia.org> To: <Recipient List Suppressed:> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 7:35 AM Subject: Autonogram 10: Saints / Help / Exchange / Lab Greetings and hello again -- Here's your irregular update about the goings-on and grindstone-nosings here at Autonomedia HQ. It's a fairly brief list this time, but don't take that as a sign of our slackness. We all managed to survive the meetings of the World Economic Forum here recently, with several of us covering events for the independent media, participating in the various counter-summits, maintaining the barricades with the Anarchist Kazoo Block, and so forth. We also hosted a serialized novella about the disturbances at the WEF meetings, which generated a fair amount of interest in the days before the meetings opened (most notably from inside the WEF, as well as from at least one member of the Special Investigations unit of the Swiss government). The novella is still viewable at http://www.autonomedia.org/davos. Another Autonomedia-related activity related to the WEF meetings was a net strike against the WEF web site, sponsored by the Electronic Disturbance Theatre, in which a massive number of requests for the WEF site may have resulted in a denial of service of the site's server. This neatly fits into the rubric of "hacktivism", which is also the title of a forthcoming collection edited by the Electronic Disturbance Theatre. More on all of this can be found at http://www.thing.net/~rdom. And without further ado, here's your Autonogram 10. * * * * * * * * * "Help Yourself!" is the newest discharge in the Unbearables' series of blasts on American culture, in which they dismantle, parody, and otherwise mangle the literary tradition of the Self Help Book. More than 75 individual contributors took on the topic, and in their Unbearable tradition, demolish the myths of self help in more than 75 ways. There are far too many people and topics involved in this to list them adequately here, but click on http://www.autonomedia.org/helpyourself for a full table of contents, Jim Feast's introduction to the book, and information on how to order the thing. Also, for more Unbearables than will fit on the head of a dull pin, or just to find out who these Unbearables are and what's their deal anyway, go to http://www.unbearables.org. * * * * * Here's another plug for the Info Exchange on our website, found at http://slash.autonomedia.org. Recent articles have focussed on, among other things, the World Economic Forum and its discontents, the World Social Forum, an interview with Toni Negri on the state of empire after 9/11, the Enron debacle, and the raisethefist.com seizure and arrest. Of particular note, though, are Bill Weinberg's regular World War 3 reports, subtitled a "Vigilant, Independent Sentinel of Truth in the War on Terrorism," which is itself something of an understatement. Weinberg, who you may know as a host of WBAI's "Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade" and as a co-editor of our book "Avant Gardening", has been issuing this weekly newsletter since the bombing campaign began in October. He casts a wide net in examining the many effects of this war, dividing his reports into digestable individual items organized by area of import: Afghanistan, the Middle East, the War at Home, New York City, and "Watching the Shadows," in which his skills at investigative journalism shine the brightest. He also has included special reports on Enron and the WEF, in an effort to tie these issues into the larger war culture. For the World War 3 report for February 9, please click the link below: http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/11/154211 Also, when you visit the Info Exchange, you'll notice a new "Make a Donation" button on the left side of the page. This is something we're trying out in an effort to offset the hosting costs for the Info Exchange. The site has been expensive to run, and for a little while it looked like we were going to lose our shirts on it; whereas that situation has cooled down somewhat, it's still a little pricey for us, and we're not too proud to get out our coffee cups and do some spare changing. If you find the Info Exchange useful and happen to have some spare money lying around, by all means, feel free to send some our way! The Info Exchange is a joint project of Autonomedia and ABC No Rio (the venerable Lower East Side community arts center), both of which are legally charitable institutions ready to give tax write-offs, so if you need a tax break with your difficult-to-find radical news and dynamic gabfest, well then, please do click the "Contribute!" button. Thanks. * * * * * Autonomadic props go out to Kevin Pyle, who was honored by the Society of Illustrators with a Silver Medal for his book "Lab USA", which came out in July 2001. If you haven't seen the book yet, look at http://www.autonomedia.org/labusa for a sample -- it's a terrifying, but very well-researched, visual history of abuse in the institutionalization of humans in the United States, particularly focussed on military and medical experimentation gone gruesome. His artwork is fantastic, and the stories he tells are both important and overlooked. And for a cute snapshot of Kevin and his new son Calvin, go to http://www.societyillustrators.org/this_week/thisweek4.html * * * * * Calendar Sale! Everyone knows and loves the Jubilee Saints calendar and the Sheroes and Womyn Warriors calendar, and we still have some of the 2002 editions available for cheap. $5 per each includes domestic shipping; go to http://www.autonomedia.org/saints or http://www.autonomedia.org/sheroes if you want to see them. * * * * * Finally, if you're anywhere near New York City, do come down to the Theatorium on Stanton Street to see the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus's annual Winter Cabaret. The Bindlestiffs have been part of the Autonomedia Collective for years, and tour the country twice a year with the Autonomadic Bookmobile Roadshow. The show this season takes a western theme, and is mouth-wateringly titled "Buckaroo Bindlestiff's Wild West Gender Bender Jamboree." Getcher tickets now, ladies and gennelmen, and have a look at http://www.bindlestiff.org. They've got the best radical vaudeville show NYC has to offer. Hooray for the cirkus! * * * * * * * * * That does it for this installment. As always, if receiving these emails causes you surprise, irritation, or plain disappointment, just send me an email and I'll have you removed from the list. On the other hand, should they inspire feelings of encouragement, lust, or glee, by all means let me hear about that as well! Send hosannas and praises, coffee and treats! We love you! Hooray! indeed, that's it. bests, Ben at Autonomedia http://www.autonomedia.org _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold