Re: nettime Reverse Engineering Freedom and make world paper#3

2003-09-24 Thread David Garcia
All too often we have encountered a fear of freedom amongst radical activists. There is a deep desire to call for regulation and control that, in the past, the nation-state and its repressive apparatus had to enforce upon the out-of-control capitalism. As true techno-libertarians we have to

nettime Reverse Engineering Freedom (Autobiography Remix)

2003-09-24 Thread Shaun Rolph
hi! here is a text geert and me were writing cheers, florian REVERSE ENGINEERING FREEDOM by Geert Lovink and Florian Schneider We've transcended the impasse of postmodernist identity politics and academe's game of culture wars we are so flagrant As casual drug users we know: one would have

Re: nettime Reverse Engineering Freedom and make world paper#3

2003-09-24 Thread Brian Holmes
David Garcia writes: There are many hells in this world and many (admittedly by no means all) of the worst occur when not only through oppressive by states, but when states break down. Without going so far as Gide's fear and trembling (David, does rhetorical excess produce rhetorical

Re: nettime concerning these minutes

2003-09-24 Thread Brian Holmes
Gabriel Pickard wrote: The whole issue of mapping - Tactical Cartography provoked my attention. Of course such maps (if you haven't seen one: http://www.universite-tangente.fr.st ) are at first glance intriguing, bewildering (and possibly aesthetically epistemologically questionable - as some