dear nettime,
I've been struggling with my general distrust in what is happening, your
reasonable voices may ease my feeling of doom.
cheers,
b.
The Ukraine conflict has many theaters of war, of which – at least for us
in countries seemingly at peace – Ukraine is maybe the least important.
Whil
Hello,
may I be the grumpy old man here?
I am a tad tired to be fascinated by the latest madness that emerges from
the intersection of a US technology companies running amok, a US society
which i see struggling with deep political, social, economic problems, and
the psyche of mostly US citizens, a
Indeed,
And it is super interesting the see how it is impossible to understand the
complex economic, political, ideological processes that led to the breakdown
of the narrowly defined cybernetic system without first opening the black
box, which, on its face, does nothing but records the data duri
What a nice opportunity to do a sanity check on my attitudes towards
the US.
I've been going back for almost a decade, spending days, weeks, months
on end in various US cities, but/and Every time I left with a feeling
that _this place is toxic to me_ I'm trying now hard to avoid being
essentialis
The public, selective, and strategic application of copyright infringement
is a political tool. I learned that to preserve the collection some
'guardians' are inclined to struck ad-hoc deals with authors wishing to have
their works taken down. It is a small sacrifice to preserve something of a
grea
