On Fri, 30 Oct 2015, Felix Stalder wrote:
> I don't think much interesting can be found in the opposition
> between critique & practice on the one hand, and between electronic
> & physical one other. [...] The key, it seems, lies in translation,
> between languages, between contexts, between peop
IaaS indeed. Technology is the cause of everything, ideology is there
to explain it.
By 'technology' I didn't really mean things that happened in the
last 10-20 years. The only recent developments of significance are
establishment of vigorous keyboard punching as effective honeytrap
for neuterin
I don't think much interesting can be found in the opposition between
critique & practice on the one hand, and between electronic & physical
one other.
Sure, there's a lot of theory-posturing that portrays itself as
critical but is primarily about self-promotion and there is lots of
activism that
dear Morlock,
as usual your cynical slap feels fascinating and somehow invigorating
On Thu, 29 Oct 2015, morlockel...@yahoo.com wrote:
> The understanding and manipulation of masses has become a
> technology-based activity. Like transportation or food production.
>
> Reflexes and intuition in a
What happens in the streets still counts as much as what happens
on-line. For being archaic a technology does not become useless, nor
does mere "newness" mean superiority.
> On Oct 29, 2015, at 1:50 PM, morlockel...@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> The understanding and manipulation of masses has become a
>
The understanding and manipulation of masses has become a
technology-based activity. Like transportation or food production.
Reflexes and intuition in activism from the last few centuries are
becoming irrelevant in this regard - this is what 'activists' generally
refuse to understand, despite
On Sun, 30 Aug 2015, Geert Lovink wrote:
> > On 30 Aug 2015, at 12:26 pm, Alex Foti wrote:
> >
> > So anarchists, autonomists, ecologists, queers are right in what
> > they say and fight for, but they are also all wrong, because if they
> > don't unite neoliberals and fundamentalists will defeat
dear Andreas, John, Armin
On Tue, 01 Sep 2015, Andreas Broeckmann wrote:
> to act on these systems is not a matter of clicking like-buttons, and
> it cannot be done in innocently white t-shirts on the streets of a
> shopping mall in vienna. (you may need a tie, or worse...) it may
> mean, for in
Hallo Armin
simple humanistic themes. On one hand slogans probably need to be so
simple to mobilize so many, but on the other hand the absence of any
deeper political analysis means that those 30.000 will not form the
nucleus of a new political movement ... which made me a bit sad in
the end ..
armin, folks,
i agree that it is urgent to complement the important humanistic
concerns with a re-politicisation of the so-called crisis; it is
important that we understand that the current arrival of refugees in
(some) european countries, as much as the turbulences on the global
financial market
Dear Alex,
thanks for this. I also share your analysis. A few weeks ago I have
written a piece which I didn't post on nettime, but I do it now:
http://www.thenextlayer.org/node/1335
It goes into a slightly different direction: How can we effectively
voice opposition when the old media have reach
Thanks for this Alex! In terms of new intellectual synthesis
/ political philosophy I thought Ocalan's fusing of Kurdish
workers party as in the case of the PKK with Bookchin/Biel
(Eco-Anarchism/Eco-feminism) is pointing in am interesting direction
- and at least for insular me came as a surprise
you are right new age superstition is undermining people's critical
thinking. we need a lot more scientific education for the democratization
of tech. i meant simplification of political messages and identification of
key issues to polarize the body politic.
Il domenica 30 agosto 2015, Geert Lovi
-- Messaggio inoltrato --
Da: *Alex Foti*
Data: lunedì 31 agosto 2015
Oggetto: what if we were all right but all wrong?
A: Eric Beck
characterizing v as redbrown is warped. that's putin giving money to lepen.
i think it weakens your legitimate criticism. this wasnt a pie
Am 30/08/15 um 18:20 schrieb Eric Beck:
> So while this new red-brown alliance might be effective, it's worth
> asking who will benefit by being "half right." Doubtful it will be
> migrants. The prospects for women, children, and queers is unlikely to
> be too sunny under the rule of "right wing so
This could be a manifestation of one of the finer points of Reed's
Law, namely that the worth (and effect) of the network is not how
many nodes are attached to it, but how many different groups can form
within it.
In this case, the 'network' is general anti-whoever-has-the-power
sentiment, but a
On Sunday, August 30, 2015, Alex Foti wrote:
> What's important is that we ditch our ideological past to forge a
> new, necessarily contradictory, unity that is able to wield power and beat
> the eurocaste. It's better to be more than half right and win, than to be
> totally right and lose;)
>
>
> On 30 Aug 2015, at 12:26 pm, Alex Foti wrote:
>
> So anarchists, autonomists, ecologists, queers are right in what they say
> and fight for, but they are also all wrong, because if they don't unite
> neoliberals and fundamentalists will defeat each one by one. We need a new
> intellectual synt
dear 'timers
what if politically all the traditions and identities we come from and
belong to were all important contributions to countercapitalist change
but each taken in isolation failed to address the burning issues
of our times: radical democracy vs repressive austerity, migrants'
rights vs c
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