Can someone tell me how to unsubscribe myself from 'artnet' please?

----------
>From: [log in to unmask]
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: some comments from a friend in Belgrade
>Date: Wed, Apr 21, 1999, 6:06 pm
>

>Glenn Smith typed:
>
>>I don't really understand why such a conversation is going on on this list
>>but i guess the only art and ideas i can see are those of the geographer
>>Jovan Cvijic who played such a crucial part in legitimizing serbia and
>>consequently Yugolslavian claims on Macedonia through his maps of 1906,
>>1909, 1913 and 1918, all of which were celebrated at the peace conference at
>>the time. However, like most things in life he was a little bit biased and
>>so the story becomes written and drawn as fact with all the messes that this
>>has created. The final boundaries agreed at paris refelct the power poltics
>>in the region in the first half of the century as interpreted and promoted
>>by a geographer, his maps and ideas. Not any natural devolopment of
>>identities or rightful claims to land. Just drawings and ideas.
>>
>>Now any chance for some artistic discussion ???
>
>Interesting post, Glenn.
>
>It can be argued that we are now re-mapping Jugoslavia through different
>media. To restrict myself to just one aspect, television portayals of the
>terrain of Jugoslavia:
>
>- Notice how the graphical maps of the war zone for the TV news bulletins
>(pick any Western channel) gradually re-define the various borders of
>Jugoslavia and its constituent Republics? In contrast to the maps we saw at
>the start of the war, now we see Kosovo, Serbia and Montenegro highlighted
>with separate borders. The fact that Kosovo is a province of Serbia, or
>that Serbia and Montenegro are both part of Jugoslavia is rearely
>referenced. What does this say about the shifting perceptions from our
>media (and by extension our governing elites) about the strategy for
>resolution of this war? How long before we see Vojvodina similarly
>"cantonised" or "Balkanised" through computer graphics?
>
>- The proliferation of satellite images and cameras on the moses of "smart"
>bombs are reenforcing the clinical, detached view of warfare and carnage
>that we became familiar with in the Gulf war. This aerial view is
>re-mapping our consciousness of war and its object, the gaining of
>territory. It also makes great advertising for Raytheon, the manufacturers
>of Tomahawk cruise missiles and coincidentally no doubt, sponsors of the US
>Democrats and UK Labour Party election campaigns.
>
>Chris Byrne
>
>
>---------------------------------
>Case Museum
>[log in to unmask]
>
>The Strange Case of the euro
>http://www.cryptic.demon.co.uk/euro.html
>
>The Strange Case of Art
>http://www.cryptic.demon.co.uk/case.html
>
>---------------------------------
>
>


%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%