I am finding it very interesting if a bit discombobulating to see my initial
provocation turned into the stuff of common room chat. As one who has only one
or two tremulous toes dipped in the sacred waters of academe the
self-absorption that this represents is quite astonishing if not deeply
sa
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 8:46 PM, t byfield wrote:
> Felix is absolutely right that this is all at root political -- and not
just politicized, in the way noted above, but political in the sharply
defined sense of people's will and ability to recognize where they stand in
structural terms and to ac
With this installment, we reach the end of the second part of Ippolita
Collective's In the Facebook Aquarium. The third part ('The freedoms of
the Net') is the last one, and is only very marginally shorter than the
first and second parts.
I propose to make the next installments longer (and hence le
https://interference.io/
Interference, n:
preventing (a process or activity) from continuing or being carried
out properly.
the combination of two or more electromagnetic waveforms to form a
resultant wave in which the displacement is either reinforced or
cancelled.
Interference is a gathering o
On 21 July 2014 08:23, d.garcia
wrote:
> What has changed is that the conditions long endured in the arts
> have now been extended to the economy as a whole where employees of
> an increasingly freelance, largely non-unionised economy are all
> required to be entrepreneurs in the creative economy
One curious thing about this discussion is that most of the people
involved are speaking from their experiences on faculties involved,
broadly, speaking, in 'digital culture.' This field sits in an odd
conceptual space between design, art, 'technology' (e.g., computer
science), and critical fie
A recent posting on MacRumors I thought might be of interest to nettimers. My
apologies to those for whom this is obvious and too downstream.
Keith Sanborn
As part of a recent Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE/X) conference presentation,
forensic scientist and iPhone jailbreak expert Jonathan Zdzi
Let's not forget Cathy Devine's anti-authoritarian response to this, "The
Tyranny of Tyranny":
http://libcom.org/library/tyranny-of-tyranny-cathy-levine
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...There are (at least) two different models for building a movement, only one
of which does Joreen acknowledge: a mass organisatio
Florian wrote,
Aside from anecdotal evidence, my colleague Paul Rutten
has compiled hard figures and statistics for the creative
industries in the Netherlands that clearly show shrinkage
[https://hro.app.box.com/s/gz6vf5hkn99ndsta2psz] along with the
rest of the economy since 2008. (For the U.S.,
Felix:
> Perhaps, our productive systems are becoming too efficient for
> capitalism. If anyone who has some base talent and invests enough time
> in watching online how-to videos can become a half-decent photographer,
> then there ceases to be a market for half-decent photography. Now, if
> th
Felix wrote:
>> Again, this is less a media issue, than one of political economy.
>> Perhaps, our productive systems are becoming too efficient for
>>capitalism.
Robert Kurz had a thought-provoking response to this comment you make
below.
http://www.mediationsjournal.org/articles/crisis-of-exc
Let's not forget Cathy Devine's anti-authoritarian response to this, "The
Tyranny of Tyranny":
http://libcom.org/library/tyranny-of-tyranny-cathy-levine
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...There are (at least) two different models for building a movement, only one
of which does Joreen acknowledge: a mass organisati
Pirate Bay Traffic Doubles Despite ISP Blockades
July 17, 2014
https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-traffic-doubles-despite-isp-blockades-140717/
In recent years the entertainment industries have pushed hard to get
The Pirate Bay blocked in various countries. Despite these efforts the
notorious t
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