Name: Black Agenda Radio December 1, 2023 by Black Agenda Radio
Duration: 54 min 46 s
Description: In this week’s segment we talk about U.S. relations with Israel and support for war crimes which would not take place without U.S. support. Also, we hear from activists in the Spirit of Mandela coalition. But first, we hear about the history of interventions against Haiti and the latest iteration which includes using Black nations as a cover for imperialism.

M.NOMIZED : Synthesizers, Melodica, Sampler, Treatments, Loops.

for "Rainbowing", a project by Marco Lucchi

settembre 2022

Marco Lucchi - Rainbowing (seven colors mix) - remixed by M.Nomized

Rock Konducta, Pt. 2

Time Trips

Festival Ensemble(s) 2021
2e2m, Court-Circuit, Cairn, Multilatérale, Sillages
Direction Jean Deroyer
Version pour 8 musiciens - Commande du festival Ensemble(s)
À Vuk

La composition de cette pièce repose sur l’analyse d’enregistrements de terrains réalisés en Normandie et en Val de Loire, dans lesquels j’ai pu isoler diverses manifestations de faune pour m’intéresser uniquement à leur aspect temporel.

Les phénomènes de réitérations, de micro-variations et d'isochronies constituaient des formes d’invariants entre diverses espèces, sur divers territoires et en divers moments de la journée ou de l'année.

Refusant l'imitation, et retenant exclusivement les caractéristiques temporelles des espèces enregistrées, j’ai cherché à juxtaposer des matériaux comme des espèces imaginaires, jusqu’à parvenir à des états d’ambiguïté avec d’autres références que sont la synthèse granulaire ou la musique électronique progressive.

La lente évolution des paysages m’a conduit vers une conception plus minimale du développement et du continuum, et l'idée de déambulation a orienté la pièce vers de lentes émergences et bascules entre les plans sonores, certains matériaux lointains se rapprochant peu à peu pour s'éloigner tout aussi lentement.
Un autre parcours réside dans le geste même de l’écriture, qui cherche à rassembler, à synchroniser ces autonomies dans les relations instrumentales pour constituer une proposition structurelle.

Territoires - for 8 musicians (2021)

In this week’s segment we learn about the need for expungement of criminal records and about the implications of the Durham Report on the FBI’s investigation of Donald Trump. But first we hear about Black women in Brazil, their struggles for human rights, and their desire for solidarity with Black people in the US and an upcoming meeting in New York.

Black Agenda Radio May 26, 2023

In this week’s segment we talk about U.S. relations with Israel and support for war crimes which would not take place without U.S. support. Also, we hear from activists in the Spirit of Mandela coalition. But first, we hear about the history of interventions against Haiti and the latest iteration which includes using Black nations as a cover for imperialism.

Black Agenda Radio December 1, 2023

Returning champ Salomé Viljoen joins us once again to discuss her latest work analyzing the relationship between social data and value creation. We get into the conversion problem of turning data into money, which requires us to expand our view of data and break from the bonds of pure exchange value to also think about social data’s “prediction value.” We also talk about why our current legal regimes of data governance are unequipped and ineffective at governing the political economy of social data—and the change that is needed.

••• Follow Salomé: https://twitter.com/salome_viljoen_  
••• Valuing Social Data https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4513235 

Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills   

Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)

305. What’s the Value of Data? (ft. Salomé Viljoen)

This one started with a single cello chord sample which I made into a nice atmospheric loop that obviously isn't in any key so basically impossible (for me) to add anything else to. So I ended up with whatever the heck this is. 

The voice at the start is me, grumbling to myself when the neighbours were keeping me awake. 

I should start these jamuary tracks earlier in the day.

Jamuary 2024

The Party (Jamuary Day 9)

We take a deeper look at Nvidia, a company that has — compared to software firms like OpenAI — flown under the radar for both investigative and critical analysis of AI. We discuss their meteoric rise and the monopolistic control they have over the hardware for artificial intelligence through their business for GPUs but also how they have solidified that control through the closed, proprietary CUDA system for AI development. We also get into the journalistic style of great man + myth making + ironic distance that structures how these powerful companies and their “visionary” leaders are covered by the media. Finally, we end with one word: Gooniverse.

••• How Jensen Huang’s Nvidia Is Powering the A.I. Revolution https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/12/04/how-jensen-huangs-nvidia-is-powering-the-ai-revolution
••• How Nvidia Built a Competitive Moat Around A.I. Chips https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/21/technology/nvidia-ai-chips-gpu.html
••• Nvidia’s $40bn takeover of UK chip designer Arm collapses https://amp.theguardian.com/business/2022/feb/08/nvidia-takeover-arm-collapses-softbank
••• SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son piles debt on to Silicon Valley mansion https://www.ft.com/content/1ea9c819-3019-47f6-b768-c92a0d06ecdf 

Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills   

Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)

311. Selling Pickaxes for the AI Gold Rush

SenSen - Y+X

The European Union’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, admitted that the “era of Western dominance has indeed definitively ended”. He warned that the EU must not divide the world into “the West against the Rest”, as “many in the ‘Global South’ accuse us of ‘double standards’”. Ben Norton analyzes the historic shift.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=PVSQRypJXzY

Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/02/26/western-dominance-ended-eu-josep-borrell/

Related videos:
- EU confesses 'our prosperity was based on China & Russia': cheap energy, low-paid labor, big market: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/10/18/eu-prosperity-china-russia-energy-market/
- West votes against democracy, human rights, cultural equality at UN; promotes mercenaries, sanctions: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/11/26/west-vote-democracy-human-rights-un-sanctions/

Topics
0:00 "Western dominance has ended"
2:41 Europe's "prosperity was based on China and Russia"
4:05 West vs. the Rest
5:07 Ukraine and NATO
7:05 Europe becoming US "vassal"
8:06 West votes against rest of world at UN
12:44 US-led imperialist system
18:58 Terms "Global South" and "West"
24:54 Outro

‘Western dominance has ended’, EU foreign-policy chief admits, warning of ‘West against the Rest’

Starting with the illegal UN vote to partition Palestine in 1947, this second episode in a series goes over the colonial, racist history of the zionist project up until the 1967 Six-Day War. Listen to the first one on Apple, Spotify, or anywhere you get your podcasts. This was recorded April 26, 2024.

Brian is joined by Richard Becker, the author of the newly updated book, "Palestine, Israel, and U.S. Empire," published by 1804 Books.

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Black Agenda Radio December 1, 2023

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