The Alan Sondheim Mail Archive

June 17, 2005


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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 18:40:57 -0300 (GMT-03:00)
From: newsletter@amazonia.org.br
To: sondheim@panix.com
Subject: Amazon News - June 16th, 2005

Amazon News
Friends of the Earth - Brazilian Amazon <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

Amazon News is a weekly information service provided by
www.amazonia.org.br, the largest bilingual site on the Brazilian Amazon
region, in partnership with several Brazilian media.

Its publisher is Friends of the Earth - Brazilian Amazon, a Brazilian
non-profit and public interest registered organization.


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The news this week:

Amapa state could protect 80% of its territory
Amazonia.org.br - 06/15/2005

Barros will substitute the STPF in December
IBAMA - 06/15/2005

Land grabbing is also a deforestation factor in Mato Grosso states
geographer from USP
ISA- Instituto Socioambiental - 06/15/2005

IBAMA investigates denouncement regarding the Legal Harvest
IBAMA - 06/15/2005

More denouncements of illegal timber extraction
Amazonia.org.br - 06/14/2005

PT deputies to process timber merchants
O Estado de S.Paulo - 06/14/2005

Sick bat bites kill 11 Brazilians
BBC - 06/14/2005
Qualified deforestation
Ag�ncia FAPESP - 06/14/2005

Reports points to fraud
O Liberal - 06/13/2005

Raposa Serra do Sol Indigenous Peoples obtain new judicial victory
Radiobr�s - 06/13/2005

License in check
O Eco - 06/12/2005

As Amazon Crops Grow, a Forest Shrinks
Washington Post - 06/12/2005

Works along the BR-163, the solution to transport soybean will be delayed
O Estado de S.Paulo - 06/10/2005

Another execution in Para state
Correio Braziliense - 06/10/2005

Declaration by ACT
Amazonia.org.br - 06/10/2005

Declaration from Cikel
Amazonia.org.br - 06/09/2005

US NGO is suspected of bio-piracy in Brazil
O Estado de S.Paulo - 06/09/2005

PF investigate fraud in another three states
Ag�ncia Estado - 06/09/2005

Environmental public policies begin to integrated conservation actions in
the Xingu Water Basin
ISA- Instituto Socioambiental - 06/08/2005
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"Amazon is not just a forest"

my _cosmic _music of the spheres__
3 vlf compositions
irvine regional park, california
http://www.asondheim.org/ellektra.mp4
http://www.asondheim.org/elk.mp3
http://www.asondheim.org/elek.mp3
modification with notch filters and chorus in cooledit
1930 regal mandolin with four low-tuned bazouki strings
sony minidisk and sony minidv video recorders
light drizzle and clouded over, cool
input directly from the vlf receiver
loosely coupled antenna in dried creekbed
visible at http://www.asondheim.org/vlfirvine jpegs
comments
although this was a fairly isolated area, the hum was enormous
there were powerlines everywhere
these are inescapable in southern california
in relation to analog / digital
the sounds are combinations of filters/effects/solarparticles/'music'
the electrospherical local membrane is altered by metal strings
these interact with the antenna field coupling and uncoupling
as performer/technician, i was not grounded, due to the rocky creekbed
there were ravens in the area
the usual spherics/spikes are audible in a number of instances
i think of this as my _cosmic swirl_
we interact everyday with electromagnetic fields of varying strength
we are penetrated by these fields
this is my _cosmic ode_ to the wondrous fields around us
this is truly my _cosmic _music of the spheres__


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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:16:52 -0700
From: Tosh <tosh3@earthlink.net>
To: TamTam Books:  ;
Subject: TamTam Books in the LA Weekly

For those who think they know me:

http://www.laweekly.com/ink/05/28/wls-mckenna.php

(I'm going to review this later - Alan)


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Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 11:00:57 -0500
From: Stacy Zellmann <zellm003@umn.edu>
To: sondheim@panix.com
Subject: Cybermind/THE SOULS OF CYBERFOLK: Posthumanism as Vernacular Theory

Considers the construction of race, gender, and sexuality in virtual
reality.

THE SOULS OF CYBERFOLK: Posthumanism as Vernacular Theory
Thomas Foster
University of Minnesota Press | 392 pages | 2005
ISBN 0-8166-3405-X | hardcover | $74.95
ISBN 0-8166-3406-8 | paperback | $24.95
Electronic Mediations Series, volume 13

Thomas Foster traces the transformation of cyberpunk from a literary
movement into a multimedia cultural phenomenon. He examines how cyberpunk
defined a framework for thinking about the cultural implications of new
technologies�a framework flexible enough to incorporate issues of gender,
queer sexualities, and ethnic and racial differences as well as developments
in nationalist models of citizenship and global economic flows.

Beginning with William Gibson's paradigmatic text Neuromancer and continuing
through the works of Maureen McHugh, Melissa Scott, Neal Stephenson, Greg
Egan, and Ken MacLeod, Foster measures cyberpunk's reach into social and
philosophical movements, commercial art, comic books, film, and music video.

For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's
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