Re: <nettime> free speech and financialisation

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> The cliche of artist interlocutors stroking one another with sappy
> artworks and puff-ball questions for masterful ghost-scripted
> pontificating by Julian is pure NYC world capitals of capitalism
> stagecrafting of how commerce undergirds the high-branded, prize-winning!
> culture for consumption by blockbuster addicts.

As one of those cliched artist interlocutors you do not bother to  
name, i would like to observe, john, that your own linguistically  
painful post seems to exist merely to make you feel better about  
something or other.

Are you more upset by Julian Assange, by

> and NGOs -- and whistleblowers, not to overlook
> documentary makers and once honorable alt media,

or perhaps zizek,

or

>  lucre-driven genre of unctuous fancy branding

or

>  pure NYC world capitals of capitalism

or

> stagecrafting

or

> of how commerce undergirds the high-branded, prize-winning! culture for
> consumption by blockbuster addicts.

yours,
martha rosler

On Nov 25, 2011, at 6:02 PM, John Young wrote:

> "Free speech" has come to mean to protect your wallet for
> that enterpise has been "financialized" by media, academia
> and NGOs -- and whistleblowers, not to overlook
> documentary makers and once honorable alt media.
<...>


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