Luc Soete is a fan of long waves. Have fun and behave yourself! Barkley Rosser (PS: Yes, I'm back, at least for awhile.) -----Original Message----- From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> To: lbo-talk <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Date: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 6:07 PM Subject: Tulip-o-mania program
>[Anyone in the vicinity of Amsterdam is invited...]
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>A N N O U N C E M E N T
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>Tulipomania DotCom
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>A Critique of the New Economy
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>An International Conference @ De Balie, Amsterdam, June 2 & 3, 2000
>& @ Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, June 4, 2000
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>http://www.balie.nl/tulipomania
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>P R E L I M I N A R Y P R O G R A M
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>Aim of the Conference
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>The conference Tulipomnania DotCom intends to develop an informed critique
>of the politics of electronic finance and internet economics. The aim of
>the conference is to raise the level of economic competence of the cultural
>and social sector, and simultaneously inject economic analysis with a
>sensitivity to on- and offline cultures, as well as a hands-on
>understanding of the new communication spaces.
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>The conference aims to set an agenda for possible models of intervention in
>this new domain of networked communication, and to reclaim vital public
>functions of the new information and communication environments.
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>To achieve this a dialogue has to be started between critical economic
>analysis, critical net discourses, and the premises of policy making, as
>well as the various social movements that operate in this domain. To
>facilitate this exchange of knowledge is a prime aim of the conference.
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>By bringing together critical discourse in these different domains we
>intend to find alternatives to deadly adapt-or-die rhetorics, as well as to
>dire structural inevitability (aka "There Is No Alternative") or
>simplifying activism.
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> Main Topics of the Conference:
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>* The New Economy: Premises and Pitfalls
>* Silicon Valley as a Global Business Model
>* Financial Markets and Regulation
>* Convergence, Mergers and Monopolies
>* Inclusion and Exclusion in the New Economy
>* Consumer Rights in the New Economy
>* A Critical Assessment of Alternative Strategies
>* Nettocracy: A Class Analysis of the Information Society
>* Gift Economies and Free Services
>* The Public Sector and the Network Society
>* In Defence of Internet Culture
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>Registration:
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>Day-tickets: DFL 35,-
>Entire Conference: DFL 60,-
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>Contact:
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>e-mail: balie at balie.nl
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>Fax: +31.20.553 51 55
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>Tel: +31.20.553 51 00
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>De Balie
>Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 10
>1017 RR Amsterdam
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>http://www.balie.nl/tulipomania
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>General enquiries:
>+31.20.553 51 51
>or: balie at balie.nl
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>Preliminary Program:
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>* FRIDAY JUNE 2:
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>10.00 - Opening
> Welcome by Andrée van Es (Director of De Balie)
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>10.30 - Plenary Debate I
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>The New Economy - Premises and Pitfalls
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>Moderator:
>David Hudson
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>Key-note Speakers:
>Luc Soete (Inst. of Infonomics, University of Maatsricht)
>Doug Henwood (Financial Journalist, Left Business Observer, New York)
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>12.30 - 13.30 - Lunch Break
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>13.30 - Afternoon Session I
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>Debate:
>Silicon Valley as a Global Busines Model
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>Moderator:
>Ted Byfield
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>Speakers:
>Clay Shirky (Hunter College, New York)
>Steve Cisler (Writer / Analist, San Jose)
>Corinna Snyder (Razorfish, New York)
>Reinhold Grehter (etoy.com)
>Nils de Witte (NEBIB, Netherlands)
>Andrew Ross (New York University)
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>15.30 - 16.00 - Coffee Break
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>16.00 - Afternoon Session II
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>Debate:
>Alternative Strategies
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>Moderator:
>Felix Stalder
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>Speakers:
>Jesse Hirsh (TAO Communications, Toronto)
>Nina Ascoly (Clean Clothes Campaign)
>Greenpeace Representative - tbc
>Olivier Hoedeman (TNI, Amsterdam)
>Hans van Heijningen (ATTAC NL)
>Gerd Junne (University of Amsterdam)
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>18.00 - Dinner
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>20.30 - Plenary Session
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>Public Debate:
>Inclusion and Exclusion in the New Economy
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>Moderator:
>Geert Lovink
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>Speakers:
>Andrew Leyshon (University of Nottingham)
>Age Bakker (Ex-director Netherlands National Bank)
>Roberto Bissio (Economist, Chili)
>Cees Vendrik (MP Netherlands Green Party)
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>* SATURDAY JUNE 3:
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>11.00 - Conference Resumes / Morning Session:
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>Debate:
>Consumer Rights
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>Moderator:
>Eric Kluitenberg
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>Speakers:
>James Love (Consumer Project on Technology, Washington)
>Wibo Koole (Netherlands National Consumer Organisation)
>David Mandl (Autonomedia, New York)
>Maurice Wessling (Bits of Freedom, Amsterdam)
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>12.30 - 13.00 - Coffee Break
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>13.00 - Afternoon Session I
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>Debate:
>Nettocracy: A Sociological Analysis of the Virtual Class
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>Moderator:
>Geert Lovink
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>Speakers:
>Michael Gurstein (Technical University of British Columbia)
>Alexander Bard, (Business Analyst, Stockholm)
>Richard Barbrook (University of Westminster, London)
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>14.30 - 15.00 - Lunch Break
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>15.00 - Afternoon Session II
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>Debate:
>Convergence, Mergers and Monopolies
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>Moderator:
>Guikje Roethof (Prezz.com, Paris)
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>Speakers:
>Richard Kramer (Arete Research, London)
>Korinna Patelis (Goldsmiths College, London
>Kenneth Neil Cukier (Redherring.com, London)
>Michael Latzer (ICE, Vienna)
>Heath Row (Fast Company, Boston)
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>17.00 - 17.15 - Coffee Break
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>17.15 - 19.00 - Closing Plenary Session
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> (Moderated discussion)
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>19.00 - Close of the Conference
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>22.00 - Cinema De Balie goes Wall Street
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>Workshops & Seminars:
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>The program will include a series of workshops and impromptu smaller scale
>meetings on the following topics:
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>1 - Development Finance and the Global Market Network
>2 - Financial Cryptography
>3 - International Venture Capital
>4 - ATTAC
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>Further details will be announced at the conference
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>Program Updates:
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>The updated and final program will be available at the conference web site,
at:
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>http://www.balie.nl/tulipomania
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>Preliminary List of Speakers:
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>Nina Ascoly - Clean Clothes Campaign, Amsterdam
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>Age Bakker - Ex-Director National Bank of The Netherlands
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>Richard Barbrook - Professor at Westminster's Hypermedia Research Centre in
>London
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>Alexander Bard - Commentator, majored in Economic Geography, works as a
>composer and record producer in Stockholm.
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>Roberto Bissio - Economist, Executive Director of IteM - The Third World
>Institute in Montevideo, Chili
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>Ted Byfield - Co-moderator of nettime, international mailing list for net
>criticism & free-lance book editor
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>Steve Cisler - Writer, Analyst, based in San Jose
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>Kenneth Neil Cukier - Senior Editor at Red Herring Communications, London.
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>Reinhold Grehter Member of the artist collective Etoy
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>Michael Gurstein Sociologist, Associate Professor Management and
>Technology,Technical University of British Columbia
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>Douglas Henwood - Investigative Journalist, Author of "Wall Street" &
>Editor of Left Bussiness Observer
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>Hans van Heijningen - ATTAC NL
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>Jesse Hirsh - TAO Communications, Toronto
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>Olivier Hoedeman - TNI - Trans National Institute of Ideas, Amsterdam
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>David Hudson - Journalist and Editor of Rewired, Journal of a Strained Net
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>Gerd Junne - Economist, University of Amsterdam
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>Eric Kluitenberg - Media Theorist and New Media Program Co-ordinator, De
>Balie (Amsterdam)
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>Richard Kramer - Consultant at Arete Research (London), and former
>technology analyst with Goldman Sachs
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>Michael Latzer - Deputy Director ICE - Research Unit for Institutional
>Change and European Integration, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
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>Andrew Leyshon - Researcher and Professor at the School of Geography,
>Research Group Economy and Society, University of Nottingham & Editor of
>Geoforum
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>James Love - Director Consumer Project on Technology (Washington D.C.)
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>Geert Lovink - Media Theorist and Activst, co-founder of nettime &
>Initiator of Tulipomania DotCom
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>David Mandl - Journalist, writer, radio programmer, editor at Autonomomedia
>publishers, New York
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>Korinna Patelis - Media Researcher, Department of Media and Communications,
>Goldsmiths College, London
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>Guikje Roethof - Journalist, Former MP, CEO of Prezz.Com - European News
>Services, Paris
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>Andrew Ross - professor and director of the American Studies Program at New
>York University
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>Clay Shirky - Professor of New media at Hunter College New York
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>Luc Soete - Professor of International Economics at the Faculty of
>Economics and Business Administration, Maastricht University & Research
>Fellow at the International Institute of Infonomics
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>Corinna Snyder - Trained as a cultural anthropologist, she works on topics
>relating to Lithuanian cultural production and as a general manager at
>Razorfish NY
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>Felix Stalder - Researcher, University of Toronto & co-moderator of nettime
>international mailing list for net criticism
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>Cees Vendrik - MP for the Netherlands Green Party
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>Maurice Wessling -Bits of Freedom - a Dutch privacy and civil rights
>organization for the information society
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>Nils de Witte - Netherlands Exchange for Angel Investments (NeBIB)
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>[Note: this list may still be subject to minor changes]
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>Conference web site: http://www.balie.nl/tulipomania
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