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Re: <nettime> what would be nettime's reading list? Jorn Ebner <j.ebner@britishlibrary.net> andy@remotelinux.com Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement ben moretti <benmoretti@yahoo.com.au> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 20:59:22 +0000 Subject: Re: <nettime> what would be nettime's reading list? From: Jorn Ebner <j.ebner@britishlibrary.net> > (Would it include Empire, Crowds and Power, Male Fantasies, a Foucault, > Ahrendt or even Deleuze? How much history (of science)? How much would > politically correct and which titles would really be useful? Geert) my friend Alan reckons that The Catcher in The Rye is easily the best book ever. I'd disagree: however, it did once fit into a coach journey from London to Hamburg. The other day, Italo Calvino's The Nonexistent Knight & Cloven Viscount, published in one volume, were too short to fit into a coach journey from Newcastle to London and back again. when I recommended to Alan to read White Noise, he could not bear Don DeLillo, saying he was too clever-clever, instead, he raved about The Corrections which I choose to ignore. Writing is more interesting to me when it attempts to achieve something with writing, formally - or, if it is realist, then at least it should attempt to clarify the muddled nonsense of existence rather than spin a yarn or reflect on the fabrics of society. Sometimes this is interesting when it describes a different society from the one around. Then the problem occurs whether I want to trust the writer. lists of writing are also problematic in terms of availability: the city's public library in Newcastle doesn't hold anything that is vaguely obscure, like Dos Passos; the university's library doesn't have updated collections of French writers such as Robbe-Grillet (the collection breaks off somewhere in the 1980s) and hardly anything by Marguerite Duras who has published extensively. The university even has a French Department... i can't read French, hence I depend on translations. I am lucky that I can read them in two languages: in English there are a few novels by Duras translated and currently available, even more are available in German; Robbe-Grillet has only a few books in print in the UK, and even less in Germany. in the opening sentences of Extinction, Thomas Bernhard's narrator gives his private pupil Gambetti, amongst others one of Bernhard's early short works to read: Amras. I would have given him Bernhard's Old Masters which I recommend to students, only in the UK you have to be lucky to find it in bookshops as it is only published in English translation by American publishers. Public libraries could provide it if you lived in Kensington, central London. The German of course would be better anyway, as the rhythm of the language works better in the original, and the sublety of existential humour is more refined. In the book, the focal character comes regularly to a museum to search out the errors old masters made. 'El Greco could not even paint hands properly!' some writing I could not recommend to students in the UK, because it just isn't in translation: Gert Hoffmann's Blindensturz, which is told by the three blind men from a Breugel painting. Another one, Abfall fuer Alle by Rainald Goetz, is probably even untranslateable, as the cultural references in this book - first published as a daily online log during 1999 - are most likely to be only understood by people living in Germany. However, it is one of the most exciting books I ever read, that proposes artictic / literary positions as well as providing a document of a whole year, both personal and political-objective (as in: accessible to understanding by a broad readership) at the same time. i guess that the beauty of mailing lists such as nettime is that readers of books in languages other than English can report on writing that is exciting but unavailable in mainstream of translated Anglo-American publishing. Hence there cannot be a Reading List as this list composes of all the individual reading lists that could potentially be pooled here. The lists would be a reading collection rather than a canon (which might become at least temporary canon, reflecting current fashions of interest) or list. However, as English is the Lingua Franca here, it will never really transcend its realm of language and by default miss out on other possibly exciting writing be that scientific, artistic, or otherwise. Jorn - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 19:37:26 -0500 (EST) From: andy@remotelinux.com Subject: Re: <nettime> what would be nettime's reading list? If I may offer some additions: Tony Cliff: State Capitalism in Russia (1955/1974) Surrealist Subversions Rants, Writings & Images by the Surrealist Movement in the United States Ron Sakolsky, Ed. Free Software Foundation: General Public License Debian Social Contract The Dammapada Networks and Netwars: The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy John Arquilla, David Ronfeldt (editors) Voltaire: Candide Eric S. Raymond: The Cathedral and the Bazaar Paulo Lins: City of God Vernor Vinge: The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era Bruce Sterling: Tomorrow Now Gamahucher: The Aesthetics of Anti-Poetry: A Manifesto Noam Chomsky Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil The Gospel of Mary Magdaline Theres much more then what time is limiting to adding, but basically, any book that expands a readers realityHorizon is a good place to put on the list, which imho, should be outside of texts that are the blueprints of bygone epochs. The inclusion of authors whose output exists in the shadows of todays society often accompany the most amazing dissection, of the present day, human. Andy - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 14:06:17 +1100 (EST) From: ben moretti <benmoretti@yahoo.com.au> Subject: Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement // Here's what I think should be on the Nettime // reading list. Ben http://www.dfat.gov.au/trade/negotiations/us_fta/text/index.html Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement Table of Contents * Preamble 1. Establishment of the Free Trade Area and Definitions 2. National Treatment and Market Access for Goods * Annex 2-B Tariff Elimination o General Notes of Australia o Schedule of Australia (1,326KB) o General Notes of the United States o Schedule of the United States * Annex 2-C Pharmaceuticals 3. Agriculture 4. Textiles and Apparel 5. Rules of Origin * Annex 5-A, General Notes * Annex 5-A, Product Specific Rules of Origin For a description of the products covered by Annexes 4-A and 5-A, please refer to the Harmonized System Nomenclature web site of the World Customs Organisation (http://www.wcoomd.org/ie/en/en.html). 6. Customs Administration 7. Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures 8. Technical Barriers to Trade 9. Safeguards 10. Cross-border Trade in Services 11. Investment 12. Telecommunications 13. Financial Services 14. Competition-related Matters 15. Government Procurement * Annex 15-A - H, Combined Government Procurement Annexes 16. Electronic Commerce 17. Intellectual Property Rights 18. Labour 19. Environment 20. Transparency 21. Institutional Arrangements and Dispute Settlement 22. General Provisions and Exemptions 23. Final Provisions # Non-conforming Measures * Annex I o Australia o United States * Annex II o Australia o United States * Annex III o Australia * Annex IV o Australia * US Financial Services Annexes (Combined Annexes III and IV) o US Financial Services Annex (Insurance) o US Financial Services Annex (Banking and other Financial Services) # Sideletters o Exchange of Letters on Aspects of IP o Exchange of Letters on Blood Plasma o Exchange of Letters on Bourbon and Tennessee Whiskey o Exchange of Letters on BSE o Exchange of Letters on Cooperation in Competition Policy o Exchange of Letters on Education Services o Exchange of Letters on Express Delivery Services o Exchange of Letters on FIRB o Exchange of Letters on Foreign Investment in Financial Services o Exchange of Letters on Gambling, Tobacco and Alcohol o Exchange of Letters on Higher Education in US States o Exchange of Letters on Immigration Measures o Exchange of Letters on Import without Bond o Exchange of Letters on ISP Liability o Exchange of Letters on National Treatment o Exchange of Letters on National Treatment - Phonograms o Exchange of Letters on Pharmaceuticals o Exchange of Letters on Procurement Matters o Exchange of Letters on Recognition o Exchange of Letters on Securities o Exchange of Letters on Telecommunications Consultative Mechanisms o Exchange of Letters on Waiver of Customs Duties o Letter from Australia on Guarantees o Letter from Australia on the Privatisation of Telstra o Letter from US on Airservices o Letter from US on Expedited Availability of Insurance Services Who to Contact For further information, please contact DFAT's AUSFTA Taskforce: Hotline: 1300 558 413 (local call rates) between 9am and 5pm (AEST) - Mon- Fri For media enquiries please call DFAT Media Liaison Section (02) 6261 1555. 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