more on the ITU

2003-01-27 Thread t byfield
after a message i sent to nettime,[1] about activists interest in the upcoming WSIS process, got bounced around various lists, a few people wrote some informative responses; it seemed worthwhile to pass them back to nettime. in doing so, i'm not *endorsing* them -- fwiw, their assessments of the I

Re: revenge of the concept

2003-01-27 Thread Felix Stalder
> In his excellent paper, >"Coase's Penguin: Linux and The Nature of the Firm," Yochai Benkler >explains, not the motivation, but the technical and legal >preconditions for cooperative informational and cultural production. >The technical considerations are basically: telematically interlinked >pe

unstable digest vol 31

2003-01-27 Thread Florian Cramer
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Re: Rhizome's revenge

2003-01-27 Thread Morlock Elloi
The difference between "money" currency and "social-ties" currency is the owner, or mint. The former is owned by the local force monopoly; the latter is owned by the individual. Modern technology offers something that would cause even greater panic than providing sex services for "money" - self-mi

Re: Aesthetic Biology, Biological Art (Rifkin, bioart, science)

2003-01-27 Thread Dan Wang
Hello folks, I like much of what has been said on this topic, but offer the following account for consideration. I think it may help broaden the way in which we think about bioart: The most (and maybe only) profound thing I saw in a gallery last fall was a convergence of two notable projects, whic

Indigenous IP

2003-01-27 Thread m hardie
I am new to this list but I see that a debate raged last October concerning Ned Rossiter's approach tot he question of Indigenous IP. Unlike Ned I do not think that the legilsative road is the one to follow. And it has not been followed in Australia despite calls for it since the later 1960's. I