nettime Doug Henwood: Review of Thomas Piketty's Capital of the Twenty-First Century

2014-04-27 Thread nettime's avid review reader
(See also, James K. Galbraith's review of the same book: http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/kapital-for-the-twenty-first-century) The Top of the World An ambitious study documents the long-term reign of the 1 percent Doug Henwood http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/021_01/12987 The core

nettime Here's what's trending on Twitter this week.

2014-04-27 Thread nettime's_little_birdie
Here's what's trending on Twitter this week. Tweeted by monoskop @monoskop 10GB English language archive of @marxists_org happens to contain the MECW as well http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6231000 full English language archive (download

nettime Philosophy of the Internet of Things

2014-04-27 Thread Rob van Kranenburg
dear all, It would be good to get some nettime views. The Internet of Things (IoT) is an umbrella term used to describe a next step in the evolution of the Internet. While the first phase of the web can be thought of as a combination of an internet of hyper-text documents and an internet of

Re: nettime In Art we Trust

2014-04-27 Thread d.garcia
Many thanks Saul, I have a real admiration for Kunst Reserve Bank project but despite your spirited and thought provoking defence I still can't shake of my sense of there being a serious flaw. Saul wrote Thats true however my argument with the Peperkamp's presentation is that in the context

Re: nettime Philosophy of the Internet of Things

2014-04-27 Thread Florian Cramer
Hello Rob, There seem to be a few problematic assumptions in the text: The Internet of Things (IoT) is an umbrella term used to describe a next step in the evolution of the Internet. While the first phase of the web can be thought of as a combination of an internet of hyper-text documents and

Re: nettime In Art we Trust

2014-04-27 Thread Saul Albert
On 27 April 2014 16:34, d.garcia d.gar...@new-tactical-research.co.ukwrote: Possibly the source of the project should have been anonymous like bitcoin or (excuse the very bad pun) banksy. The individual releases of the coins could have been unattributed and aspired to a drier more neutral

Re: nettime Philosophy of the Internet of Things

2014-04-27 Thread dan
It would be good to get some nettime views. The Internet of Things (IoT) is an umbrella term used... For me, the rising interdependence of all players on the Internet is a setting for common-mode failure both of technology and of governance, and the IoT is central to that rising