Re: nettime Re: markets, states, associations (was: reverse engineered freedom...)

2003-09-30 Thread Brian Holmes
Just to continue this dialogue with Ryan on the idea of concieving society as a force field between three poles: the US New Deal policies could be seen as restrictive on markets or as a tactic of preservation of them by the state. Those policies did both: and don't forget the threat posed to

nettime Re: markets, states, associations (was: reverse engineered freedom...)

2003-09-29 Thread Ryan Griffis
hi Brian, The theoretical point of looking at human organization in terms of those three poles thanks for the response - and yes it is helpful. (wish i could go to Geneva for the WSIS too) at any rate, i do find the tri-polar model useful, but i still question it's universal application