" L'inconscient est structuré comme un tumblr " (Dr Jacques Lacan)

ACTA : cut the techno-crap & call me a judge

The 1 billion $ question, "Is ACTA incompatible with freedom of expression and information or data protection and the right to property in case of intellectual property?", will finally be addressed by a judge this year.

Where that? In US? in Japan? In Luxemburg, where the European Court of Justice sits.

This initiative from the EU Commission results from... citizens, more precisely, from the scratching pain-in-the-brain protesters who never cease to complain about ACTA's negotiations and their discreet encroachment over civil rights. Until now, the objectors to ACTA have somehow been the noisy wastes of the official doxa regarding the "objective need of a protective ACTA", they have been the unwanted civil side-effects of the official sermon on property rights.

(to read opposite views and endorsement of the sermon, click on the click to glance at the industry's advocacy letter addressed to MEPs)

The reference of the protesters' question to the European judge is not only and obviously a legitimization of their concern.

It also is a new qualification for the judge : since the governments and the Commission were not ready to include their concern into the negotiations of this international treaty, the EU judge in charge of law's protection get a new promotion : he has also to include the civil waste of the ACTA's official doxa into the law's protection.

Another reason for governments to despise independent judges?

Fast & furious : the summary of today's news but in a Platonic style

(XXIst century's icons & myths mapping our daily roaming en el Laberinto de la soledad #46)

Competition of bad asses : The EU Commission stood by its position in its dispute with China over CO2 charges on airlines flying to Europe.

Wonderland has a new Queen of Hearts.

Before the Avengers come soon to save our credit-crunched world, they wandered like mere human beings....

Meanwhile, in the land of the careless China's main competitor...

Happy stones to throw (Epiphany is hard labour too #60)

Hirotoshi Ito - Laughing Stone that Henry Michaux would have found excessively demonstrative, René Magritte overly perfect, Mai 68 unduly 'bourgeois', Vladimir Poutine typically American, & Marquis de Sade unreasonably soft.
What about the Arab Spring? Iran? Senegal?

Sounds of Brussels

For a teleportation to the urban & Belgian & Euro-zone's sounds of Brussels, click on the click.

Selon Thomas Baumgartner :
"Bientôt l'Atelier du Son mettra Bruxelles à l'honneur, à travers quelques rencontres faites sur place. La capitale belge & européenne est un lieu artistique sonore bouillonnant. Il en fut question (...) justement lors de ma dernière visite j'avais entendu parler d'un festival de "Field recording" (ce qui pourrait se traduire par "paysage sonore", mais je crains d'être approximatif sur cette traduction, car il existe aussi le mot "soundscape"...).

En préparation de ces entretiens belges, je suis tombé sur le projet Sounds of Europe. C'est une tentative en cours de mettre en réseau des artistes sonores de l'Europe entière (et même au-delà, si l'on fouille dans le site), qui partageront leurs expériences, leurs productions... Derrière Sounds of Europe, il y a l'idée de mettre en place des résidences d'artistes dédiées au projet, des productions adaptées...

Sounds of Europe est né de la constatation suivante : le field recording devient un genre en soi, avec ses styles, ses variations, et ses artistes. Ce qui est assez beau, c'est que l'Europe se retrouve ici terrain de jeu sonore, voire terrain unifié par le son. Il y a une part d'utopie dans ce projet, et ce n'est pas le moindre de ses attraits. Faites du son, pas la guerre ! Etant donné la période, qui est plutôt au morcellement/ cloisonnement, Sounds of Europe met du baume aux oreilles. C'est à suivre, et normalement on devrait en parler dans les prochaines semaines dans l'Atelier du Son. "

Reminder : Facebook may lead to democracy, not ipso facto to a republic State of Rights

As demonstrated in Tunisia, Libya or Egypt, electronic social networks may accelerate the sharing of undesirable information and of justified anger without guaranteeing the upheaval leads to a republic State of Rights.

At the other top of the democratic spectrum, lies the old system of formal petition that has been recently extended to Europe.

Its virtue is to address societal issues that a remote legislator ignores.

Petition can be addressed to the EU legislator once it gathers one million of European signatures.

At the time of the negotiation of this principle by Member States in 2010, negotiators sincerely believed that collecting such an amount of signatures would be difficult and would de facto create a filter on the number and the seriousness of petition.

Electronic social networks in the meantime changed this reality. The creation of a genuine "European public space" -that has so many times been called by citizens, politicians and intellectuals for years- is now in the hands of petitioners.

Clich here to read recent comments of the vice-president of the EU Commission on this issue.

Meanwhile in the land of presidential elections...

Examples of Kafka in the land of Jean-Yves Le Gallou and in the university of Claude Guéant are here.

Meanwhile in the Eurozone...

DRAWING & STICKING : MONSIEUR QUI, PARIS, 2012

Meanwhile in the Euro-zone...

Meanwhile, in wall street...

Public Billboard of Globalized Town into Public Billboard of pixelled Metropolis #32 (last shot)

In off chance you are not already aware of the pretty good news of this century : note that Soundwalk recreates the homeric sense of traveling.
As indicated before, this is the last pixelled day of this intangible blog. Nervous addiction to images and optic wastes will slow-down & take another form in another place. A book will be made up of the posts.
Pax Tecum,
Brusqu'elles.

Style is what remains once chaos put you down #567 (Jean-Luc Mélenchon)

De quoi la langue française de M. Mélenchon est-elle le non?

Recall, before the week-end

Epiphany is hard labour too #59

Artist between California & Pakistan: Khalil Chistee

I put light in my paintings that does not exist in my country #61

(Museum of Paris, spring 2010).

Public Billboard of Globalized Town into Public Billboard of pixelled Metropolis #31

- Good day Officer.
- Good day Brusselsky. Please, let me know your reasons for anonymousness.
- No fame, no shame as said my grandma when beating the pavement of Paris' Saint-Denis street.
- What do you do for a living, Brusselsky?
- I do my best Officer. I'm genetically attached to Uranus' cycles but I've little jealousy for those not concerned by these cycles.
- Would you say Brusselsky that the emotional coma you insert in the Flow are autistic moanings unable of bearing a global key of reading and, therefore, are an intangible waste of time?
- I know Officer my additions to the narcissic blogs and the pixeled vacuum are of little help to the iCivilization and the WiiCulture. But, in the other hand, my autistic moanings are a mere politeness of despair, anxious of providing readers with optical reliefs. Isn't it the purpose of the Flow, Officer?
- It might be Brusselsky, it might be. Good day Brusselsky.
- Good day Officer.




«ces rayons dansants qui viennent sur l’écran manifester tous nos sentiments à l’état d’ombres» (Lacan J., Le Séminaire, livre VIII, Le transfert, Paris, Seuil, 2001, p. 46).

Please, Sin & pull the petals off my consciousness until you reach the bottom of my body #117

Drawer: James Jean.

Public Billboard of Globalized Town into Public Billboard of pixelled Metropolis in Christmas Time #30

'Et mourir de désir' is a poster from a hopefully forgotten French movie released only in few countries (French-speaking countries, Italy, Japan) in 1974 but whose iconic title swings in the strollers' eye at Brussels, place du jeu de Balles, thanks to the concern of an old shopkeeper.