Digital Networks and Social Innovation: Strategies of the Imagination (2008)

2012-02-14 Thread Eugenio Tisselli
Hello nettime, I wrote "Digital Networks and Social Innovation: Strategies of the Imagination", in 2008. It was published as a chapter of the book "Cultural Expression, Creativity and Innovation", volume III of the Cultures and Globalization series, SAGE Publications. According to the contract

The Debtors' Song

2012-02-14 Thread Dmytri Kleiner
Well, it's been a while since I wrote anything about the Debtors' Party, I have a few texts in mind about horizontal money, about why we should continue to use the word communism, and more about the macroeconomics of class struggle, but I thought I'd start by honouring a debt. I promised my f

[Fwd] A Spit in the Ocean (or the limits of social network paranoia)

2012-02-14 Thread Jaromil
dear Tjebbe, as young squatters in Amsterdam in recent times both me and hellekin did benefit from your early practices of phone alarm lists. Considering your presence in this discussion now I feel that the grounds for this dialogue are extremely interesting and fertile. It certainly won't hurt

[Fwd] A Spit in the Ocean (or the limits of social network paranoia)

2012-02-14 Thread Tjebbe van Tijen
Last sentence of a message on which I am reacting just to get the gist of it: >> I won't participate anymore in so-called social media that don't >> proceed from actual communities nor nourish them. Facebook and >> Google+ nourish like baby milk: with poison inside. Stop smoking >> before cancer

Re: ACTA Act

2012-02-14 Thread Vuk Ćosić
Hello may I offer a bit of early morning dogma: # Something is happening, again Surely someone wrote in these seventeen years of nettime a story of information society domesticating the internet, removing the thorny bits that might disrupt the status quo *too much*. It is sincerely sad for sen

Anonymous and the Digital Antinomians

2012-02-14 Thread dan mcquillan
also online at http://mediasocialchange.net/2012/01/21/anonymous-and-the-digital-antinomians/ cheers dan Anonymous and the Antinomian Atmosphere How are we to understand the political implications of Anonymous? How do we explicate the digitally mediated 'atmosphere of dissent' that links the Ar