Re: "THERE IS NO PEACE WITHOUT DIGITAL PEACE" (Micosoft)

[Heiko Recktenwald]

They are activ with this topic since two years or so. First in questions
of law of armed conflict (LOAC), autonomous weapon systems, man in the
loop or not. And the general topic that you quoted. But be real, what a
blabla. People have no voice in such questions that are decided by
states. As in the Geneva conventions and the additional protocolls. You
cant expect more than LOAC. NATO has allready wrtitten that paper. The
usual stuff. Dont kill more civilians than necessary for your military
purpose.

But ok, lets paint peace.

Google does not want to participate in this run for better weapon
systems. They dont want to kill. And the friends of those weapons say:
Dont overlook the lifes of our soldiers that dont have to kill themselves.

Here is something from todays Wapo:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/darpa-head-on-ai-dangers-its-not-one-of-those-things-that-keeps-me-up-at-night/2018/12/06/6b6cb233-d840-46d1-931d-62153fda193d_story.html


Best, H.



Am 12/11/18 um 20:02 schrieb Geert Lovink:
>
> https://digitalpeace.microsoft.com/
>
> "We are digital citizens—members of a thriving online global society.
> We trust technology to help us do our jobs, create communities and
> connect us. As digital citizens, we also share responsibility to
> protect our interconnected space.
>
> We are more at risk than ever before from cyberwarfare. Governments
> are using technology as a weapon, which can devastate people,
> organizations, and entire countries. These attacks may start in the
> digital space but can quickly spread to the physical world. We must
> come together as digital citizens and call upon our world leaders to
> create rules of the road that protect our digital society.
>
> We must demand Digital Peace Now." 
>
> --
>
> Dear nettimers,
>
> any comments on this? I find this pretty stunning. OK, 100 years after
> World War I, that’s pretty significant. "Make love, not war." Today
> there's conference in Paris. I am an anti-militarist, I am not on the
> side of the corporate-governmental (cyber)warfare promotors. But in
> general I am not against non-violent conflict. Should we demand
> digital conflict? Or digital ‘struggle'?
>
> And what to make of the comments by US internet governance scholar
> Milton Mueller? 
>
> https://www.internetgovernance.org/2018/11/09/the-paris-igf-convergence-on-norms-or-grand-illusion/
>
> "The theory of international regimes identifies norm development as
> the second step in a process of institutionalization. The first step
> involves agreement on principles; that is, foundational facts about
> the sector or domain to be governed. It is unfortunate, but true, to
> say that all of the international calls for cyber norms have skipped
> agreement on principles and are trying to promulgate norms despite a
> huge, gaping chasm in the way states understand their role in
> cyberspace. There will be no effective operationalization
> of norms until there is agreement on the status of cyberspace as
> a global commons, a non-sovereign space."
>
> Your messenger of peace, Geert
>
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residency

[Morlock Elloi]

“This mesmerizing spectacle is the culmination of everything I’ve worked 
toward in my life,” said the 87-year-old Chomsky, bedecked in one of the 
sequined cardigans he will wear during the nightly appearances, which 
will reportedly feature nine total costume changes. “Audiences can 
expect a dazzling laser-light-show lecture on the theory of generative 
grammar, followed by a rollicking cabaret-style reenactment of my 
rancorous back-and-forth with Christopher Hitchens in the wake of the 
9/11 attacks, plus a medley of my other hits from the ’60s through 
today—not to mention a few heart-stopping, edge-of-your-seat surprises 
along the way!”


“And each night, I’ll bring one special audience member up on stage to 
debate me over the illegitimacy of unjustified authority,” Chomsky 
continued. “Could it be you?”



https://entertainment.theonion.com/noam-chomsky-announces-las-vegas-residency-1819578692

(note the orphans)
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Call for Submissions: Pervasive Labour Union #13

[Lídia Pereira]

After three years of (semi) regular existence, wherein we have touched on
topics ranging from Terms of Service, Smart Cities and Immateriality, it is
now high-time that the Pervasive Labour Union zine 
takes a very close and serious look at the universe of the alternatives.
Alternatives to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube: you name it.

What do these alternatives look like? Sure, plenty of services advertise
themselves as "The alternative", but are they really all they claim to be?
What are the requirements of a 'true' alternative?
The Pervasive Labour Union zine already broached some of these topics on
its Special Issue with the Homebrewserver Club on XMPP - "Have you
considered the alternative?" . To follow
the HBSC’s strategy,  a premium should be put on alternative approaches,
not on any specific alternative apps.
We need federated social networking solutions based on open standards that
are able to communicate among themselves, regardless of the platform being
used.

Looking forward, what the new issue intends to achieve is a broader, more
in-depth look at the field of The Free Network, which, according to Sean
Tilley's article on the topic

[
https://medium.com/we-distribute/a-quick-guide-to-the-free-network-c069309f334],
includes both The Fediverse and The Federation networks. These networks are
comprised of projects such as Diaspora, Mastodon, GNU Social, etc. Which
protocols can and are being developed to achieve interoperability between
the different alternatives? How do scale and trust influence the field?
What are the forces at play within this realm and how to engage with them?
With this issue, we propose not only to collect a field guide of sorts, but
also to open up the discussion on the alternatives and how to tackle the
challenges posed by network effects, scalability and financial viability.
As always, we welcome:

- Texts (max. 1000 words). Texts can range from satire, theory, poetry,
propaganda, educational etc. to personal rants;
- Images (illustration, photo montage, photography, etc.);
- Any other creative interventions that you might consider fit with the
theme.

DEADLINE: February 5th

You can submit your contribution to li...@majesticmoo.se,
lidia@gmail.com or nikos...@gmail.com
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Ideology, Culture, and Critique of Political Economy - an historical correction

[Örsan Şenalp]

Below is an announcement of a historical fact with hard proof, and an
essential correction with major implications for critical analysis in
general.


Since the 1960s and 70s Marxian thinkers came to believe that it was
Gramsci who developed the first systematic ideas and concepts,
building on Marx and Lenin's ideas, on the issues of ideology and
culture, and developed a unique conceptualization of hegemony, as an
integral part of a theory of state and civil society. The influential
contributions based on Gramsci readings of Althusser, Laclau, and
Mouffe, Miliband, Poulantzas, Anderson, Frankfurt School theorists,
cultural studies of Stuart Hall, French post-structuralists have come
to inform the most important debates on the state, classes, ideology,
MNCs, social movements, new imperialism so on.

However, below quotation from the preface to the English translation
of the first ever Marxian Political Economy study book, by Alexander
Bogdanov, shows clearly, that 30-40 years prior to Gramsci's Prison
Notebooks, there emerged the first-ever systematic study of ideology,
culture, and social consciousness, both as an integral analysis or
critique of the political economy, and as an independent study titled:
The Science of Social Consciousness. Bogdanov's conceptualization and
strategy of cultural hegemony and revolution clashed with Lenin's
concept and strategy of political hegemony and revolution. Anderson
mistakenly identified that Lenin's conceptualization and strategy,
based on political dominance as the main influence on the ideas
Gramsci later developed. However, it has become obvious since the 80s
that Bogdanov's work, which caused the notorious strategical rivalry
with Lenin, actually was the main influence on Gramsci's thought and
conceptualizations.

"The chapters on ideology in this and the other courses by no means
serve as supplements to the main subject. Ideology is an instrument
for organizing economic life an is consequently an important condition
in economic development. Only within these limits and in this
connection is it touched upon here. It is dealt with independently in
a special textbook "The Science of Social Consciousness" which is
written in a form similar to this."

https://monoskop.org/images/d/d8/Bogdanov_Alexander_A_Short_Course_of_Economics_Science.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2Vb4V7K3ZTXv9wM3iQhytz_HcINx1iwnYkoUsCWxwwZYMQKD1uHMH1Y6Q

In solidarity,
Orsan
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