Re: nettime Frank Rieger: We lost the War--Welcome to the World of Tomorrow

2006-01-09 Thread Brett Shand
On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 00:11:51 +0100, Rob van Kranenburg wrote: I don't get it. It is a good analysis. Sings to the right tunes. Yet how can a text that starts with We lost the War end with... fun. Fun has become an overrated concept all of a sudden. Oh, I don't about that. Humour is a very

nettime Brands and Identity in the Age of Neuroscience

2006-01-09 Thread Paul D. Miller
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8535feedId=online-news_rss20 How brands get wired into the brain 18:31 04 January 2006 NewScientist.com news service Shaoni Bhattacharya A person's liking for a particular brand name is wired into a specific part of the brain, a new study reveals.

Re: nettime Frank Rieger: We lost the War--Welcome to the World of Tomorrow

2006-01-09 Thread Florian Cramer
Am Samstag, 07. Januar 2006 um 11:47:29 Uhr (-0500) schrieb Geert Lovink: We lost the war. Welcome to the world of tomorrow. By: Frank Rieger [...] Democracy is already over By its very nature the western democracies have become a playground for lobbyists, industry interests and

Re: nettime Frank Rieger: We lost the War--Welcome to the World of Tomorrow

2006-01-09 Thread Geert Lovink
On 9 Jan 2006, at 6:37 AM, Florian Cramer wrote: I admire the perfect Carl Schmitt-ian (and by implication, Leo Straussian) rhetoric of this manifesto: The rhetoric of the emergency state, political friend-vs.-enemy antagonism, and its view of the status quo of democracy. You mean admire