A Historian of Economic Crisis on the World After COVID-19: Adam Tooze

2020-08-08 Thread nettime's_future_historian
< https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/08/adam-tooze-how-will-the-covid-19-pandemic-change-world-history.html > A Historian of Economic Crisis on the World After COVID-19 By Eric Levitz @EricLevitz In March, history broke into our house, and ever since, we've been cowering in panic rooms,

Re: notes on cancel culture

2020-08-08 Thread Alice Sparkly Kat
Who are you talking about? Jeffree Star? Onision? JK Rowling? All these people still have platforms/money/are fine... A On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 6:48 AM Geert Lovink wrote: > Delete Your Profile, Not People by Geert Lovink > > “The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he

10th anniversary of Democracy Village

2020-08-08 Thread Siraj Izhar | publiclife
July 20th was the tenth anniversary of the eviction of the tent city Democracy Village at Parliament Square. But on its significance I had meant to write something earlier but it proved difficult with local BLM related meetings in July. But here it is for anyone interested in that tent

Bernard Stiegler R.I.P.

2020-08-08 Thread Patrice Riemens
Aloha, It is not to me to write an obit for Bernard Stiegler, who passed away the day before yesterday. Many nettimers can do that much better, and I hope some will do. But his death by suicide - now in the public domain: