[Nettime-bold] New serial novel, "Davos," on-line

[Jim Fleming <jim@autonomedia.org>]

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Greetings --

Over the next eleven weeks, in serial installments posted every other 
day, Autonomedia will publish on-line a translation of a new novel in 
34 episodes written by the Swiss author Daniel de Roulet.

The novel "Davos: Everyone is Coming Down" is set around the resort 
town in the Swiss Alps that hosts the annual World Economic Forum, 
and involves a tactical plan to strike against the mobile telephone 
relay station for the 2002 meetings of the WEF, leaving participants 
and the media without a primary communications infrastructure.

In reality, the 2002 WEF will start at the end of January, not in 
Davos but in New York City, a change of venue announced in early 
November. There are surely many reasons for the re-location of the 
Forum. It may be that many American corporate executives don't trust 
the airlines over the Atlantic. And someone in the Davos civil 
government, or in Zurich or Geneva, may have decided that after Genoa 
and Quebec, their beloved Alpine village was no place for the 
confrontations which have become the hallmark of globalization talks 
in recent years.

But there is perhaps yet another reason for leaving Davos. After this 
novel was already written, a Zurich Sunday newspaper published 
front-page reports of an alleged terrorist plan to attack the mobile 
telephone relay station to be used by the upcoming meeting, a story 
published on the same day as the other announcement. So the question 
occurs: did somebody take the fiction of Davos for reality? You can 
judge for yourself...

In any event, "Davos" will be posted to the Autonomedia web site at 
http://www.autonomedia.org/davos beginning today, November 14, and 
will continue on a Monday - Wednesday - Friday schedule through the 
beginning of the actual meetings, January 31, 2002.

Jim@autonomedia.org
http://www.autonomedia.org

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