MIT and the Prosecution of Aaron Swartz (2013)

31 July 2013, dusan

“In January 2013, MIT President L. Rafael Reif asked Professor Hal Abelson to lead a thorough analysis of MIT’s involvement in the Aaron Swartz matter, from the time that MIT first perceived unusual activity on its network in fall 2010 up to the time of Aaron Swartz’s suicide on January 11, 2013.

On July 26, 2013, Professor Abelson and his team submitted their report to President Reif.” (source)

“Abelson and his panel interviewed 50 people and reviewed 10,000 pages of documents to produce the report, about 3,000 of which were released in redacted form.” (source)

Publisher Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 26 July 2013
Review Panel: Harold Abelson, Peter A. Diamond, Andrew Grosso, Douglas W. Pfeiffer (support)
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License
182 pages
via Marcell Mars

“MIT Report is a Whitewash” (statement by Aaron Swartz’s partner Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman in response to MIT’s report, 30 July 2013)
“MIT Moves to Intervene in Release of Aaron Swartz’s Secret Service File” (Kevin Poulsen, Wired, 18 July 2013)

publisher
summary from the publisher

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Lucy R. Lippard: Get the Message? A Decade of Art for Social Change (1984)

22 July 2013, dusan

“This book is the third collection of essays I’ve published in a little over a decade. Each of my books has marked the beginning of a specific phase of my life, though not necessarily its end. Changing (1971) was the product of my ‘formalist’ or art-educational period; it consisted primarily of essays written from 1965 to 1968, with a few late additions foreshadowing my next book-Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object.. (1973). From the Center (1976) and Eva Hesse (1976) documented my developing conversion to feminism, which expanded all the possibilities that had seemed to be closing down in the ‘cultural confinement’ of the early 1970s. Get the Message? is the result of a need to integrate the three sometimes contradictory elements of my public (and often private) life-art, feminism, left politics. Owing to publication delays, only two essays from the last two years are included.” (introductory note from the author)

Publisher E.P. Dutton, 1984
ISBN 0525480374, 9780525480372
343 pages
via fiona

Review: Fred Pfeil (Minnesota Review, 1985).

PDF (19 MB)

The Next Five Minutes Zapbook (1992)

8 July 2013, dusan

Working papers for the Next Five Minutes Conference, Exhibition and TV Program on Tactical Television held between 8 and 10 January 1993 in Amsterdam.

Edited by Amsterdam Cultural Studies (Jeroen van Bergeijk, Geke van Dijk, Karel Koch, Bas Raijmakers)
Produced by Paradiso, Amsterdam, October 1992
70 pages
via TacticalMediaFiles.net

PDF, PDF (no OCR)

See also tactical media on Monoskop wiki.