Re: Supreme Court Rulling consequeces

2019-09-26 Thread Tom Keene
My experience of dealing with UK local authority housing managment has encountered a domain of large scale cartels with complex layers of contractors and sub-contractors in a hyper-accelerated efficiency drive. This efficiency has driven down the pay of contractors who sub-contract to an unskill

Re: radio nettime: 8 Sept 2019 12:00-13:00

2019-09-03 Thread Tom Keene
For me - as a long-time lurker - the benefits are about feeling connected to a wider network network of people engaged in both similar and contrasting kinds of thinking and doing. The list feels like it opens possibility of finding support in my future and current endeavours. Nettime is freed fr

Re: Has net-art lost political significance?

2019-06-28 Thread Tom Keene
Hi Rachel, I've written a contribution to an upcoming Critical Makers Reader for the Institute of Network Cultures that may be of interest. It relates to my PhD artist and activist led research (in final year of write-up) of local authority databases, processes of urban regeneration, and an on

Re: Nettime is in bad shape. Let's see if we can change it.

2019-06-12 Thread Tom Keene
Hi Renée, RE: I tend to make egregious typos & grammatical mistakes that I don't catch until it's about a week later. Same with me, i'm dyslexic and much prefer making and programming as a way to understand the world. On social media, particularly Twitter, I've learnt not to worry so much, thou

Re: The Maker Movement is abandoned by its corporate sponsors; throws in the towel

2019-06-12 Thread Tom Keene
I'd also like to add some thoughts here as a non-poster on Nettime. I was recently contacted by some old friends, some of whom I haven't seen since I was 16 years old. These friends were part of London's early squat party scene. This scene was distinct from 'raves' heard so much about in the ma

Re: Update: Conflict minerals and radical impotence

2012-04-17 Thread Tom Keene
Hi Eugenio, Inspired by your original post, I made an attempt to start a discussion here: http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum/general-discussion/an-ethical-policy Sadly I got allot of abuse from other forum members (about 15 messages were deleted) and sarcastic/warning remarks from one of the admins