On 12/17/2017 06:31 PM, Kein wrote:
Hi Brian! Well I was slightly kidding but more seriously: History suggests it's
not a one way street from direct to symbolic action, the traffic can flow both
ways.
Ben
Yeah, that's what I think. Making it flow is pretty important though.
Grenoble used to
Hi Brian! Well I was slightly kidding but more seriously: History suggests it's
not a one way street from direct to symbolic action, the traffic can flow both
ways.
Ben
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> On 17 Dec 2017, at 18:23, Brian Holmes wrote:
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>> On 12/17/2017 10:50 AM, Kein wrote:
>> Quick pt: I
On 12/17/17, 01:07, e...@x80.org wrote:
For better or worse it seems to me that the only way to escape control
from computers is not rejection, but in-depth education about them.
Yes.
The following are my contributions to an e-mail exchange which I
resisted putting on nettime as it didn't off
On 12/17/2017 10:50 AM, Kein wrote:
Quick pt: It's not 'symbolic' if you burn enough infrastructure.
Right, then you can kick off a massive military/fascist reaction which
isn't symbolic either!
Direct action either becomes symbolic, allowing for politics, or it
becomes a fight, allowing th
Quick pt: It's not 'symbolic' if you burn enough infrastructure.
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> On 17 Dec 2017, at 13:27, Vincent Van Uffelen wrote:
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>> On 17/12/2017 10:07, e...@x80.org wrote:
>> Morlock Elloi writes:
>>
Echoing recent digital critics such as Douglas Rushkoff or even myself,
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On 17/12/2017 10:07, e...@x80.org wrote:
Morlock Elloi writes:
Echoing recent digital critics such as Douglas Rushkoff or even myself,
they ask themselves what’s revolutionary or prophetic in an industry
that relies on old-school capitalism, monopolies, micro-work, state
regulations and money
Morlock Elloi writes:
>> Echoing recent digital critics such as Douglas Rushkoff or even myself,
>> they ask themselves what’s revolutionary or prophetic in an industry
>> that relies on old-school capitalism, monopolies, micro-work, state
>> regulations and money as a cardinal value. And as they
This is correct observation.
"Hacker spaces" and similar are simply recruitment centers for the new
cognitive class that will facilitate the machine-mediated control of the
rest. People instinctively understand this, despite the deluge of
propaganda to the contrary.
Computing machines are al
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In France, cyber criticism turns violent as “activists” burn a fablab to
protest the diffusion of digital culture
What will be the
