Re: The Maker Movement is abandoned by its corporate sponsors; throws in the towel

f the less-easily > monetized ones. In some ways, this goaded people to tighten their narrative > about what they liked about locally and counter-culturally produced > material culture, as Garnet Hertz did with his zines [ > http://www.conceptlab.com/criticalmaking/]. But in most ways

Re: The Maker Movement is abandoned by its corporate sponsors; throws in the towel

who see it as a way to bootstrap > >>>>> their startup, and there is a risk that it can be exploited by > >>>>> someone only out for themselves, but the culture of the space > >>>>> mostly manages to protect itself from that. > >>>&g

Re: Periodizing With Control

I'm likely going to get torn apart for saying this, but in regards to "Periodizing With Control"... who cares? What are the implications of this? Seb is super smart and this is nicely crafted and researched - but this lacks any sort of case study, place, context, time or any connection to the real

Re: The Maker Movement is abandoned by its corporate sponsors; throws in the towel

;. Perhaps the things that the new artisans will >> manufacture in each locality will be not just the hard to replicate at >> scale, but the pointless to replicate at scale. >> >> Cheers, >> >> James >> >> P.S. Was talk of the death of Nettime somewha

Re: Periodizing With Control

t the "ground" as > habitus for users. > > TLDR if you think a work of theory is too abstract, it's probably > inspiring someone "on the ground", anyway. if you're uncomfortable with a > division of labor whereby academics do this and other people do oth

Re: The Maker Movement is abandoned by its corporate sponsors; throws in the towel

. Dale > wasn't able to increase his vision beyond a classical version of monetizing > making. By not welcoming (and also actively discouraging) a bunch of his > audience, he limited some of the scope of the Maker movement. > > --xx--xx-- > > Best wishes -- > >

Re: The Maker Movement is abandoned by its corporate sponsors; throws in the towel

huckster zone, because if >> you were really good at making stuff, wouldn't you consider yourself an >> engineer or a designer or an artist first? >> >> >> # distributed via : no commercial use without permission >> #is a moderated mailing list for net cri

Re: Latin as revolutionary act?

Retreating into a dead language is the most idiotic thing I've heard in a while - unless this is a symbolic parody of how isolated much of the academic humanities is. Why not just stick w the outdated 1970s critical theory that everyone already regularly invokes? Garnet Hertz On Sun, N