-empyre?

2012-03-12 Thread Ana Valdés
Dear Nettimers: I am moderating this month in -empyre and I know many of you are subscribed also to both lists. Since we are often discussing tangent topics I wonder if I can encourage you to participate in this month's discussion. These two posts were written by two very dear friends to me, two U

Re: The $100bn Facebook question: Will capitalism survive 'value abundance'?

2012-03-08 Thread Ana Valdés
Dear John I am not sure if we are talking in parallell ways. When I am talking potlach I am talking from an anthropologist view (I am a trained anthropologist) and we are definitely talking about exchanges both in the symbolical view and in the physical form. The most gifts exchanged were not inclu

Re: The $100bn Facebook question: Will capitalism survive 'value abundance'?

2012-03-08 Thread Ana Valdés
Haha, join -empyre if you want to have another cup! I enjoy Nettime and Empyre both, it's a great intellectual exchange! Ana On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Keith Hart wrote: > Just a line to thank all the above for a great thread that could run and > run. When combined with the other threads, Ne

Re: The $100bn Facebook question: Will capitalism survive 'value abundance'?

2012-03-08 Thread Ana Valdés
I apologize to go into the discussion so late but I am moderating this month's discussion at -empyre and it feels the time and the writing skills have indeed a limit :) I was a user of Second Life and remember the discussions about the virtual sweatshops where young Mexicans and Koreans worked for

Re: Statement in relation to the outlawing of the Copenhagen Free University: All power to the free universities of the future

2011-06-23 Thread Ana Valdés
I am shocked, I know people who were engaged from the beginning at Copenhagen Free University. Danmark has old traditions of popular education through Folkhögskolor and other kind of trainings. I know that Paulo Freire admired the Scandinavic adult education as one of the most succesful examples