The New Yorker

La position du Guardian : ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/328903

Et ce merveilleux xkcd :

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/free_speech.png

#liberté_d'expression

Charlie Hebdo and the Limits of the Republic
►http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/20528/charlie-hebdo-and-the-limits-of-the-republic

France’s iconic law on the freedom of the press passed on 29 July 1881, still enforced today, was designed in part to exclude the Republic’s Muslim subjects. While the law protected the rights of all French citizens, including explicitly those in Algeria and the colonies (Article 69), it did not protect the Republic’s subjects, who are the vast colonized populations throughout the French Empire. This was not a mere oversight: less than a month before, on 28 June 1881, the same parliament had passed an equally iconic law on the indigénat. Under the indigénat, a bizarre parallel system of justice, natives (indigènes) could not publish newspapers, or even speak or gather in public. The indigénat bypassed due process, required no trial, and involved a colorful variety of fines and punishments.

While the law also excluded a variety of colonized subjects of various creeds throughout the Empire in Africa and Asia, its Algerian context is particularly instructive because it specifically targeted Muslims. In colonial Algeria “citizens” were all those who were not Muslims, and the terms musulman, indigene, and sujet usually (though not always) overlapped. Muslim was a racialized legal category stripped of any religious significance. For instance, in a beautiful show of absurdity, several court cases confirmed that even if they converted to Christianity, natives remained legally Muslim, that is subject to discriminatory laws and stripped of citizenship.[1] The famous 1905 law on the separation of Church and State was also meant to be applied to Algeria. Tellingly, this never occurred because authorities, in particular, wanted to control what imams said in mosques. Imams remained civil servants of the French state until 1962.

(…) This does not mean, however, that this colonial history can seamlessly explain events this week.

#colonialisme #race #liberté_de_la_presse (via @caroiza)

Et :

Rather than posit that the Paris attacks are the moment of crisis in free speech—as so many commentators have done—it is necessary to understand that free speech and other expressions of liberté are already in crisis in Western societies; the crisis was not precipitated by three deranged gunmen.

►http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/unmournable-bodies via @evaspiek

Si tu mets le titre au-dessus de l’url tout le monde est plus content : en effet quand il en a besoin*, seenthis calcule le titre d’un message à partir du texte qui se situe en haut, modulo un substring() dans les cas où c’est trop long.

* pour balancer sur twitter, pour indexer mieux, pour donner un nom au fichier de sauvegarde…

noté, peut-être ajouter cette info dans ►http://seenthis.net/français/article/le-minimum-à-savoir ?

Les graphiques sont jolis #visualisation

C’est quand même dommage que la bande jaune ne fasse pas 17% de la surface totale ! (elle en fait le double, à vue d’œil).
De même, ça aurait été sympa que la surface de l’arc de cercle (oui celle du trait) fasse 1% du total, et que le 0,1% soit en proportion.

L’article est intéressant mais sur le fond me donne une vague nausée… l’héroïne de l’histoire est allée à Harvard… que fait-on de son intelligence ?

Voir aussi, à propos d’Emerson Spartz et de #viralité :

King of #Clickbait | The New Yorker
▻http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/05/virologist

merci d’archiver ! (très pratique pour nous aussi)

#Allemagne_de_l'Est #livre

►http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2010/07/RIVIERE/19389

PROJECT CYBERSYN: Chile & the Socialist Internet | Cybersalon
▻http://www.cybersalon.org/project-cybersyn-chile-the-socialist-internet

6th December 2014
C1.18 (The Pavillion), University of Westminster, 115 New Cavendish Street, W1W 6UW London

on y va ? @jeandan tu devrais venir aussi

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en fait Morozov s’inspire surtout d’Eden Medina, et insulte aussi Andrew Pickering au passage ; ce qui a déclenché un sacré tollé chez les historiens américains

https://static.squarespace.com/static/523cd0a3e4b0637224507e69/t/5438b20be4b088b048ca8f54/1413001740098/?format=750w#.jpg

An Unresolved Issue : Evgeny Morozov, The New Yorker, and the Perils of « Highbrow Journalism », by Lee Vinsel — Taming the American Idol
▻https://lee-vinsel.squarespace.com/blog/2014/10/11/an-unresolved-issue-evgeny-morozov-the-new-yorker-and-the-pe

[sur Medina]

Morozov only once mentioned Medina, and the mention came well into his text. To add insult to injury, citation was glancing at best: “As Eden Medina shows in ’Cybernetic Revolutionaries,’ her entertaining history of Project Cybersyn, [Stafford] Beer set out to solve an acute dilemma that Allende faced.”

https://static.squarespace.com/static/523cd0a3e4b0637224507e69/t/5438b340e4b0890513a4edf6/1413002049616/edenm_INFO.jpg?format=300w http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262525961.jpg

[sur Pickering]

Morozov replied, “Pickering’s book was duly read when it came out and it failed to impress. Actually, I found it awful.” Here, Morozov repeats a mistake that he also made in his Tumblr post, when he wrote, “Am I absolutely happy with Medina’s book? No. In fact, I even have minor quibbles with it.” We don’t cite other authors because we agree or disagree with them but because the hard work they have done has taught us something.

http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/includes/images/staff/pickering.jpg http://tmm.chicagodistributioncenter.com/IsbnImages/9780226667904.jpg

(note : les deux #livres en question sont absolument passionnants !)

Au final on a une situation où l’intellectuel-troll le plus en vue, membre d’une des facs les plus puissantes (Harvard) alliée à un titre de presse « haut de gamme » (The New Yorker), écrasent sans vergogne une jeune prof d’histoire (femme) d’une fac moins top (Indiana).

(cette histoire est pour vous @thibnton @sabineblanc @mona et @reka (au moins))

il y a aussi Antoine Picon qui a en parlé avant, je dois avouer que ça m’agace, dès que Morozov sort un truc on le découvre, même si d’autres l’ont traité avant. ►http://www.lagazettedescommunes.com/222064/les-intelligences-de-la-smart-city

L’article de Morozov traduit dans Vanity Fair : « Cybersyn, une machine à gouverner le Chili » ▻http://www.vanityfair.fr/actualites/international/articles/cybersyn-la-machine-a-gouverner-le-chili/23947

Lampedusa marks shipwreck anniversary

Survivors mark first anniversary of tragedy in which 366 men, women and children, died in sight of shore.

▻http://www.aljazeera.com/video/europe/2014/10/lampedusa-marks-shipwreck-anniversary-2014102195632130249.html

Europe cannot remain indifferent to what happened in Lampedusa

The European Union and its Member States must make a paradigm shift in regard to migration policies, writes Jorge Nuño Mayer.

▻http://www.euractiv.com/sections/justice-home-affairs/europe-cannot-remain-indifferent-what-happened-lampedusa-308913

LAMPEDUSA, NON E’ PROFONDO IL MARE

Il saluto di #Erri_De_Luca e #Ascanio_Celestini ai morti del 3 ottobre

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xgdGYT3ZZo&feature=youtu.be

Trascription du texte de la vidéo (en italien...) :

«L’articolo 34 dice: ’I capaci e i meritevoli, anche se privi di mezzi, hanno diritto di raggiungere i gradi più alti di studi’. L’articolo 3 dice: ’E’ compito della Repubblica rimuovere gli ostacoli di ordine economico e sociale che impediscono il pieno sviluppo della persona umana’. Lo ricordava Piero Calamandrei più di mezzo secolo fa. Parlava di cittadini italiani, ma lo diceva quando gli italiani erano emigranti. Ora che gli emigranti si chiamano immigrati e invece di lasciare il nostro paese cercano di raggiungerlo, forse dovremmo cominciare a consegnare loro i diritti che sono stati negati a noi. Ma che altro diceva Calamandrei? ’Se volete andare in pellegrinaggio nel luogo dove è nata la nostra Costituzione, andate nelle montagne, dove caddero i partigiani. Nelle carceri dove furono imprigionati. Nei campi dove furono impiccati. Dovunque è morto un italiano per riscattare la libertà e la dignità, andate lì, oh giovani! Col pensiero, perché lì è nata la nostra Costituzione.
[Erri De Luca ci porta dove sono morti i nostri concittadini stranieri]
Non è profondo il mare. E non servono abissi per affondare. Basta un battello pieno di viaggiatori che hanno pagato il costo più alto per il peggior trasporto marittimo della storia umana. Viaggiavano meglio perfino gli schiavi incatenati, perché almeno loro servivano vivi all’arrivo. Era una notte di ottobre. Calma. Il mare era ancora tiepido d’estate, ma non si resiste a lungo immersi per ore nel buio e nell’abbandono. Anche a toglieri i vestiti, per pesare di meno, aggrappati a rottami si perde caloria, si perde la presa e ci si arrende. Non servono abissi per sprofondare.
Torniamo su questo braccio di mare dove un anno fa è affondata un’assemblea di vite umane. Votarono all’unanimità il viaggio. Acquistarono il rischio e lo sbaraglio. Nella lista parziale stilata dalla questura di Agrigento si leggono i loro nomi e le loro età sotto la dicitura ’numero di elementi’. Elementi… Questo termine misero e burocratico, che cerca di tenere le distanze richiama però altri elementi, quelli chimici: l’ossigeno, l’idrogeno, l’azoto, il carbonio, il ferro e il calcio. Quelli di cui siamo composti tutti noi. Allora è andata proprio così, in questo braccio di mare sono affondati gli elementi della chimica umana del pianeta. Ci sporgiamo su questo braccio di mare dove le loro vite vennero accolte a braccia aperte per spargere del sale. Spargiamo del sale sulla ferita perché non si rimargini. Spargiamo il sale della memoria. Qui, dove i nostri compagni sono caduti. Noi siamo del Mediterraneo, cittadini di questo mare, perché ci siamo nati su queste coste e perciò siamo fratelli di tutte quelle vite che su queste coste sono venute a morire»

Year After Lampedusa Shipwreck, Italian Officials Struggle to Identify Victims

▻http://online.wsj.com/articles/a-year-after-lampedusa-shipwreck-italian-officials-still-struggle-to-ide

Dispatches: Honor Lampedusa’s Dead by Sustaining Boat Rescue

I have given up trying to write a remembrance for the 368 people who died in the shipwreck off Lampedusa, a southern Italian island, one year ago. Words to honor their bravery, remember their plight, and comfort their loved ones... I am not eloquent enough, and the images of rows of coffins, including tiny child-sized ones, strangle my thoughts. Others will give speeches on this anniversary.

▻http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/10/02/dispatches-honor-lampedusas-dead-sustaining-boat-rescue

Naufragio Lampedusa: l’isola vista dai bambini
–-> l’île vue par les enfants

(di Paolo Petroni) (ANSAmed) - ROMA - Lampedusa con gli occhi dei bambini: il pomeriggio di domenica 5 ottobre in vari punti dell’isola si svolgerà il Concerto itinerante ’Le nuove vie dei canti’, musiche di Paolo Marzocchi, testi e regia Mario Perrotta, frutto di un progetto promosso dal ministero dell’Istruzione, ideato da Guido Barbieri e realizzato da un numeroso gruppo di musicisti, registi, drammaturghi e attori, che ha coinvolto duecento studenti tra i 9 e i 14 anni della scuola Pirandello dell’isola.

http://www.ansamed.info/webimages/foto_large/2013/10/5/78d733d3d2d34243b68111f064fa2ac7.jpg

#dessin

The Anniversary of the Lampedusa Tragedy

The West’s long history of sluggish responses to refugee crises turned especially ugly one year ago today, when a boat from Africa sank within sight of the Italian island of Lampedusa. More than three hundred people drowned, mostly immigrants fleeing the troubled East African country of Eritrea. They had made a difficult crossing through the Sahara and Libya by car and on foot, only to pay several times the price of a plane ticket to be packed shoulder to shoulder on a boat too small and too old for their numbers. In April, I wrote about their journey for the magazine, and about a Catholic priest, Mussie Zerai, whose phone many Eritreans have called from kidnappers’ prisons. Eritreans carry Zerai’s number with them during sea crossings, and it often falls to him to notify rescuers when their boats begin to sink or run out of fuel.

http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Schwartz-Lampedusa-690.jpg

Comment, non sans raison, l’AIPAC voit le Congrès US,

“There is a disdain for the U.S., and a dismissal of any legitimacy of our right to question—because who are we to talk about moral values?” Baird told me. “Whether it’s that we didn’t help early enough in the Holocaust, or look at what we did to our African-Americans, or our Native Americans—whatever! And they see us, members of Congress, as basically for sale. So they want us to shut up and play the game.”