I just published this big essay in Aeon Magazine, looking at the dark
sides of 'cashless society' (aka. the bank payments society):
https://aeon.co/essays/if-plastic-replaces-cash-much-that-is-good-will-be-lost.
This follows from an earlier essay I did called The War on Cash. The
battle to protect
Dear Nettimers,
I would like to post here the announcement of the call for web
residencies "Blowing the Whistle, Questioning Evidence" I recently
curated for Akademie Schloss Solitude and ZKM. I think the topics will
interest this list.
Deadline is March 10, 2017. Please forward it to other
I am not eloquent at writing obituaries because they always seem
inadequate to me but what you outlined seems familiar. It was fantastic
to get Armin to speak at our OpentechSummit '15. For me he represented
an age of digital reconnaissance, and his presence pointed at the
"Leerstelle" that
