Re: nettime Evgeny Morozov and the Perils of Highbrow Journalism

2014-10-16 Thread gab fest
Organized envy sounds like a fair characterization. But the organization is small and centered on a few friends and associates of Medina. Then there are others engaging in opportunistic one-offs on Twitter and Facebook, at various levels of engagement. It's far from clear that Morozov has made

Re: nettime Evgeny Morozov and the Perils of Highbrow Journalism

2014-10-16 Thread Fil
Hello Geert, I think you've summed it up quite well... I'm not sure there's something more behind this. Was this plagiarism? I don't think so, if the words are original. But for the historian, the piece is certainly not bringing enough new material (if at all...), and does not properly quote its

nettime map about mos maiorum operation

2014-10-16 Thread oli
hi, a nice media activism project just started: maps.nadir.org if you encounter or observe an action part of the european joint police operation mos maiorum, in effect from 13th to 26th october with the target to identify, imprison and finally deport illegalized migrants, you are asked to mark

Re: nettime Evgeny Morozov and the Perils of Highbrow Journalism

2014-10-16 Thread t byfield
On 15 Oct 2014, at 20:30, gab fest wrote: Organized envy sounds like a fair characterization. But the organization is small and centered on a few friends and associates of Medina. Then there are others engaging in opportunistic one-offs on Twitter and Facebook, at various levels of

Re: nettime Evgeny Morozov and the Perils of Highbrow Journalism

2014-10-16 Thread Rob Myers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14/10/14 03:17 AM, Geert Lovink wrote: Will this scandal be the beginning of his downfall? Morozov has dealt in second-hand goods since his conversion. I've never met anyone he's fooled. So I'm not sure what his downfall would entail. -BEGIN

Re: nettime Evgeny Morozov and the Perils of Highbrow Journalism

2014-10-16 Thread Keith Hart
Hi Ted, Thanks for the best contribution to this thread. I am sure you are right to emphasise the contradiction between scholasticism and reaching a broader public. I am convinced that a lot of it was envy of Morozov's public reach and I too wonder if his apparently perverse career move into the