To quote myself from the ideology & the infrastructure paper (
https://cryptome.org/2019/02/elbar.pdf ):
"The ideology of the infrastructure goes deep and is often invisible to
the involved actors. The participants generally believe that they are
doing the best possible job. What is specific
Hello everyone
the main limit with all of this (including GDPR and all current
institutional actions) is that the extractive and exploitative nature of
the data and computation industry are not questioned at all.
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This is a real issue. This equivalence is being promoted so much that it is
Aside from the deep irony of using the term 'Gaia', and 'ecosystem' in any
relation to the CO2-generating/privacy-devouring Cloud, seems to be more of the
same geopolitical wrangling for territories of control ...
On 24/Jan/20 12:19, Luke Munn wrote:
In terms of alternatives, there is the
Hence the quotes - I suppose I could have added "ostensibly" in there.
Of course data infrastructures and the wider technological industry are
highly political in constructing imaginaries, appropriating funding as you
noted, aligning with public and private interests, shaping the flows of
data,
Data Center and Service providers are attempting to lobby further for
large amounts of investment planned in Gaia-X, see slick pamphlet here:
https://www.bmwi.de/Redaktion/EN/Publikationen/Digitale-Welt/project-gaia-x.pdf?__blob=publicationFile=4
They are appropriating the language and growing
On Fri, 24 Jan 2020, 17:33 Geert Lovink, wrote:
> What do you think? I am curious.
The fact that this is a PDF that can't practically be read on my phone
tells me everything I need to know about this organisation - the only
people whose opinions matter spend their lives sat behind a desk.
In terms of alternatives, there is the Gaia-X initiative, "the new European
data infrastructure project that aims to grow a sovereign and
self-determined digital ecosystem in Europe."
Dear nettimers,
I read this policy paper of the DiEM25 movement and really liked it. It’s good
to see that there is progress in bringing together different fields that have
been dealt with in different scenes for a long time. The text mentions the
building of a digital commonwealth. “We want
