Here is another take on the current state of play in Internet Governance.
http://justnetcoalition.org/NMI-neoliberal-caravan
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The Caravan Has Set Out for a Neo-liberal Capture of Global Governance
(With governance of the Internet as the path being broken first)
The Just Net Coalition1 (JNC) c
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http://www.internetgovernance.org/2014/11/20/nyet-mundial-taming-the-ambitions-of-the-weficanncgi-alliance/
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November 20, 2014
Nyet-Mundial: Taming the ambitions of the WEF/ICANN/CGI alliance
Who will inherit the legacy of the NetMundial meeting? A one-off
meeting in April of this
Ursula K. Le Guin's statement on being honored at the National Book Awards
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http://parkerhiggins.net/2014/11/will-need-writers-can-remember-freedom-ursula-k-le-guin-national-book-awards/
>:
Thank you Neil, and to the givers of this beautiful reward, my
thanks from the heart. My family
The main cognitive dissonance here is in the (implied) claim that
creativity should be rewarded by the prevailing (capitalist) system
currencies.
Remove that requirement, and suddenly everything works like a charm !
On 11/19/14, 22:46, Geert Lovink wrote:
artists can only participate if they
What I hear (and value) in the call of these Nine Theses is neither a
bohemian call for more "authentic" creativity as cultural product, nor a
narrow focus on worker conditions that dismisses creativity as mere
exploitation.
Instead, what stirs me about their call is that, unlike many of
creativit
In the interest of avoiding the conflict free zone that worries the authors the
following
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> 1. Goodbye to Creative Industries
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> A creepy discourse on creativity has captured cultural and economic policy.
> Creativity invokes a certain pharmacological numbness among its spruikers ???
> a
< http://blog.al4.co.nz/2014/09/google-commits-privacy-seppuku-at-bts-request/ >
Google commits privacy seppuku at BT's request
As I'm currently in temporary accommodation I have found myself without
a permanent internet connection. 3G service in the area is pretty
spotty, so I bit the b
is the european question the analog of the habsburg question or the ottoman
question in the 19th century? i don't think so, but there's certainly room
for the belief that the 'sick man of europe' is europe itselft, or rather
the EU.
One could counter that the stagnation that Merkel and the eurocra
On the Creative Question ??? Nine Theses
By Geert Lovink, Sebastian Olma and Ned Rossiter
(written for the #2 MyCreativity Sweatshop conference, organized by the
Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, November 20-21, 2014:
http://networkcultures.org/mycreativity/2-mycreativity/)
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