Facebook as a Facebook Game

2013-05-17 Thread wolfie christl
Dear nettime, we´re a group of developers, open source evangelists, activists, theorists and artists - mainly based in Vienna, Austria. Please consider the following game as a contribution to an "immanent net critique". We´ve been working hard on that for the last 2 years. http://datadealer.com

Re: Jaron lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class

2013-05-17 Thread Felix Stalder
On 05/16/2013 03:55 PM, newme...@aol.com wrote: > 3) McLuhan: "The trouble with McLuhan-style analysis is that in order to > avoid these complexities, one has to resort to extreme abstraction." Not > really. Frameworks like McLuhan's -- which was only published posthumously > in the 1988 "La

the disappearing middle class and snake oil salesmen

2013-05-17 Thread allan siegel
hi there, well, to tell the truth, after reading just the infamous (so it seems) Jaron Lanier interview it is not his shabby analysis that is shocking, i.e. "Of course jobs become obsolete. But the only reason that new jobs were created was because there was a social contract in which a more ple