Notices by Rasmus Fleischer (rasmusfleischer@tldr.nettime.org), page 18

@mllstrm Mixcloud valde nyligen att gå samma väg som Soundcloud och ta (saftigt) betalt av den som vill ladda upp mer än ett fåtal timmars ljud. Så jag sökte mig till den återstående tjänst av samma slag som är gratis att ladda upp på.

J Albert - Feel No Evil
Andreas Gehm - Heaven & Hell
Journeymann Trax - Canopy (ft. D. Tiffany)
not even noticed - Complicated Life
Idris Bena - Pieces Back
SW. - JAZZmassLESS
Zopelar - Passado
TRP - The Future
Jordan Nocturne - Gemini Boy
DJ Rubio - Merenrantafoto Sotarikoksen Uhrista
MOY - Tardigrade
Primitive Needs - Sprained Ego Protocol
Jupiter Jax - The Deepest
Drumskull - Negative 7
Rings Around Saturn - Online Spectre
Cignol - TRumcen
CH415 - Octafunk
Unknown Mobile - Heavenly Depression
Walton - Angry Drummer
Fantastic Man - Trojan Force
Well Being - Pleasure Garden (Adapt 2 The Culture Mix)
Laudrup - El Batan
Elsa - Why Are You Running
Yak - Wide Eye (Original Mix)
MOY - Geodesy
Zigg Gonzalezz - High Jackin

https://soundcloud.com/rasmusfleischer/rytmisk-etyd-for-januari

I recorded my first mix of 2023. Mostly improvised, a lot of #acid #house:
https://hearthis.at/rsmsflschr/rytmisk-etyd-for-januari/

I have loosely-formed and somewhat conflicting thoughts about how many of us discuss "owning your data" and the #fediverse. On one hand, the protocols do improve certain levels of individual ownership vs centralized and corporate options. On the other hand, the #ActivityPub protocol is specifically designed such that my data is necessarily duplicated to an unbounded an unknown number of not-owned-by-me entities. On the third hand, exponential distribution is a central essence of the internet.

@lausanhk @promiseli

Thank you for this excellent piece of clarity and forward-looking!

I like the perspective of "multiple, logics of state capitalism", "US, Chinese and other". Anyhow, this seems to imply that today, there is no other capitalism than state capitalism. Since when is then this the case? Do you have a specific definition of "state capitalism"?

kind of high level theological weirdness with something which is simultaneosly 1) a universal language understood by all, and 2) a feeling that only the chosen can understand

People online talk about "house" and every time I just think like, "you see, no one man owns house because house music is a universal language, spoken and understood by all / You see, house is a feeling that no one can understand really unless you're deep into the vibe of house" etc. (Mr. Fingers – Can you feel it)

Then it turns out those people are Americans talking politics. When they just say "house" they mean the fucking House of Representatives.

I dream of going back to Odessa this summer. I really do. It might not be probable, but it is still not impossible that, this year, все буде Україна. ?

Video reportage from Popular Front, interviewing members of the Russia's anarcho-communist underground movement, responsible for at least 80 anti-government sabotage attacks during the past year:
https://youtu.be/1u1lXr1vShI

"The party is the ‘masculine’ moment of the class; its own self-separation, its political doubling, is what produces (the rest of) ‘the class’ as inert, passive material, as objectified, feminized *other*. The party is blindness to what the class is up to. It is inability to communicate. The party produces the proletariat as the woman he can never talk to.
By early June 2020, the class had ghosted the party. The party was left to oscillate between desperately trying to get some action, or simply jerking off."

From this piece published by Endnotes half a year ago:
https://endnotes.org.uk/posts/a-new-institute-for-social-research-the-struggle-within-the-struggle

Yet another outstanding album by Skee Mask: https://scntstlab.bandcamp.com/album/b
I tend to agree with the one redditor saying "His textural continuity and cohesiveness is second to none."
#techno #breakbeat #ambient

And note that Skee Mask took his music off Spotify. It can however be downloaded at Bandcamp for any price starting from zero.

I mean post-Soviet histories, not post-war.
But that also includes one very strong pre-war history; the one about how Russia started the first Chechen war. It is a very timely and very sad remider.

I really appreciate watching Adam Curtis' documentary Traumazone. So much strong material speaking for itself.

But there is one deeply disturbing thing, namely the subtitle: "Russia 1985–1999".
It's very misleading, because #Traumazone is only partly a story about Russia.
A large part of the time (maybe 1/3) is spent telling parallel post-war histories about Kazakstan, Ukraine, etc. Countries which are NOT parts of Russia.

In effect, the framing serves to normalize Russian colonialism. Even though much of the content works in the opposite direction.

This new video by Pussy Riot did make me cry and it is fucking militant too.
"It's time for us to complete the revolution. Let Moscow burn."
https://youtu.be/W4IsdnlbOr8 ?

@bh That's on spot. I do think that we have only seen the beginning of something that can take very different and very ugly forms, and that it is important to grasp the bigger picture within the context of a crisis theory.

@remixtures I find it weird that the article does not even mention the many attacks claimed by the radical leftist group БОАК. Of course there is a theoretical possibility that this group could be a front for some foreign security service, but there are strong indications that this small but militant group are actually genuine, self-organized Russian anarchists.
https://tldr.nettime.org/web/@rasmusfleischer/109557967011410803

@bh I agree, but I'm not sure if the broader French concept is to be regarded as the same as the more recent, narrower concept in German. I note that Jan Rathje – the scholar featured in the podcast – seems to regard "souveränismus" as a neologism coined by sociologist Susann Bischof. https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/binaries/content/assets/customsites/perspectives-on-terrorism/2022/issue-6/pot-xvi-6-a5-rathe.pdf

"Eine Reise in die Welt der Reichsbürger" was a pretty interesting podcast episode: https://pca.st/episode/11226d1c-8230-4baf-9476-be9b67154305
I noted how a couple of time they describe the Reichsbürger as "Souveränisten", a concept I have not really encountered in other languages, and also in German only used by quite few writers, it seems. Brief introduction here: https://www.bpb.de/shop/zeitschriften/apuz/verschwoerungstheorien-2021/339286/reichsbuerger-und-souveraenismus/
"Conspiracist sovereignism" – the worldview of the Reichsbürger, the "sovereign citizens" in the US and possible more weird groups yet to surface – is not really fascism, though it is clearly related. Specifically, it should be understood as a bizarre ideological reaction to a very real crisis of political sovereignty.

Gonna write this up in longer form, but folks complaining that the $45bn Ukraine costs are high miss two key points:

1. The direct costs in (US) military aid are surprisingly small; in the order of $19bn this year, and $10.8bn committed (so far) for next year

2. The indirect economic costs of the Russian war to the US economy (i.e. to the private sector not via the government) are in the order of $600-700bn per year. To pick a random company, it's nearly $6-10bn in costs to Apple *alone*.

Interesting episode of the Popular Front podcast about the "Anarcho-Communist Combat Organisation" (БОАК), the heroic partisan group blowing up railways and attacking military recruitment offices inside Russia:
https://pca.st/episode/a05d26f8-014e-4c32-ad8b-6264adc90ab1 ????