Notices by Rasmus Fleischer (rasmusfleischer@tldr.nettime.org), page 3

Žižek on Jameson:
https://slavoj.substack.com/p/larger-than-life?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2152876&post_id=149486644

"Once a Hizbollah operative is identified, his daily patterns of movements are fed into a vast database of information, siphoned off from devices that could include his wife’s cell phone, his smart car’s odometer, or his location. These can be identified from sources as disparate as a drone flying overhead, from a hacked CCTV camera feed that he happens to pass by and even from his voice captured on the microphone of a modern TV’s remote control, according to several Israeli officials.
Any break from that routine becomes an alert for an intelligence officer to sift through"
https://www.ft.com/content/6638813e-e246-4409-9a38-95bf60a220a8?accessToken=zwAGI0Uotu9okc9mOIE-4kZECdOaOJW_YKIgqA.MEUCIDTArBqDN6is1JLwonSv84QxCMkAN9l_A6aCHefsGEM7AiEAtsdgkcWE8Wjitc-bPg7_uMLZhcekx8Xj4HanZyVMSFM&sharetype=gift&token=b07cb402-646b-493c-a795-0065da291daa

"How Russia’s war on Drugs Provides a Steady Stream of Manpower for Ukraine Invasion"
https://bylinetimes.com/2024/09/24/russia-prisoners-drugs-ukraine-war/

@eaon You try to get out through the door, only to find yourself entering the room again, but through the window...

Fredric Jameson (1934–2024)
https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/fredric-r-jameson-1934-2024/

Farewell, Fredric Jameson.

»It is always a delicate matter, in utopianizing, to distinguish between the utopian modification of reality and the symbolic replication of what already exists.«

—An American Utopia. Dual Power and the Universal Army, pp. 82.

Nice Bandcamp feature of a great producer of contemporary music:
"Cataloging Gavsborg’s 'Mutant Dancehall'"
https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/equiknoxx-gavsborg-bird-sound-power-interview

"ALFRED SCHOLZ was a prolific producer of budget recordings, who fraudulently sold recordings credited with non-existing artists and orchestras. ... Working as a conductor, he performed under the guise of ALBERTO LIZZIO as well as many other names."
https://www.discogs.com/artist/730304

ALBERTO LIZZIO: "Credited as conductor, actually a fictional character, pseudonym invented by ALFRED SCHOLZ used on budget productions, generally with fictional orchestras."
https://www.discogs.com/artist/730308

"When this wave first began to move around 2014 I was torn: on one hand I had been a defender of background music throughout my career. I was taking a stance that provoked and challenged the pretentious snobbery of cultural elitists. On the other hand, much of this #Neoclassical music *only* succeeded as background music and didn’t seem to stand up to closer scrutiny, failing as foreground music."

https://thequietus.com/opinion-and-essays/black-sky-thinking/gonzales-solo-piano-neoclassical-regret/

let me present this year's late summer mix:
https://soundcloud.com/rasmusfleischer/sensommarmixen-2024-late-summer-deceleration
#house #techno #electro #dub #music

"Vivaldi: Concerti per una Vita" (2024) might well be the liveliest recording of #Vivaldi's instrumental music ever since Il Giardino Armonico appeared on the scene in the 1990's. 🎻 💥
No #baroque head should miss this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcrn_CbCdUI
https://www.harmoniamundi.com/en/albums/vivaldi-concerti-per-una-vita/

Listening to a fascinating sound collage on #NTS featuring field recordings from #Cairo, contemporary #Arab #hiphop, traditional and other #music, and #noise
https://www.nts.live/shows/postdrone/episodes/postdrone-31st-august-2024
#fieldrecording #experimental #rap
Presented by Cairo-based DJ Postdrone: https://postdrone.bandcamp.com/ https://soundcloud.com/postdrone

Debussy & Bartók

Wired just published a long interview with @Mer__edith of Signal:
https://archive.is/SjY5B

"I see Signal in 10 years being nearly ubiquitous. I see it being supported by a novel sustainability infrastructure—and I’m being vague about that just because I think we actually need to create the kinds of endowments and support mechanisms that can sustain capital-intensive tech without the surveillance business model. And that’s what I’m actually engaged in thinking through."

@garyhall There is indeed something to that

Žižek:
"Nazism was an exception: it was suicidal fascism, kill them all. But Mussolini and Franco were #soft #fascism. If Mussolini had not been so stupid as to join with Hitler, he’d have been one of the godfathers of the European Union. The future is soft fascism. Deng Xiaoping changed China from a communist country to soft fascism: liberalise the economy, liberalise culture, but the party retains absolute control. Erdoğan is doing exactly the same. But #Putin is closer to #Hitler.”"

"Žižek, our most famous living cultural theorist, works on the sofa next to his wife, on his laptop, and uses a Russian pirate website from which to cut and paste quotes: Marx, Hegel, Lacan, Kierkegaard, Schelling, you name it – and his own.
...
A few years ago, he was done for self-plagiarism by the New York Times: “It’s like calling masturbation self-rape,” he cries."

https://www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/kate-mossman-interview/2024/07/slavoj-zizek-the-court-jester-of-late-capitalism #zizek #piracy

Twenty years ago today.
#thepiratebay #piracy

"In the construction sector in particular, many of these migrants hail from the countries that emerged from the Soviet Union’s collapse and they still use Russian as their lingua franca. To fight for their rights and combat exploitation, hundreds of these workers have formed Builders in Solidarity (Solidariska Byggare, in Swedish). Freelance journalist Volodya Vagner reports on this rapidly growing Russian-speaking union shaking up the Swedish labor movement."
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/08/16/builders-in-solidarity

"Madre de Deus" is the second single from Vox Vulgaris' upcoming album "Early Music for Late Humanity". Over a hypnotic groove, with jamming bagpipes and trumpets of doom, a choir begins to chant a tune from 13th century Spain. Out today on all streaming services:
https://open.spotify.com/album/0nLkFZNcQ5i7755fVq32kZ
https://music.apple.com/us/album/madre-de-deus-single/1762093279
https://voxvulgaris.bandcamp.com/track/madre-de-deus
#medieval #music