On 05/09/2012 10:31 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 10:45:33PM +0100, Rob Myers wrote:
On 05/08/2012 05:52 PM, Morlock Elloi wrote:
The curiously absent question is why there should be social media in the
first place, and 'media' in general.
Lascaux.
Notice that memes and
Self-conscious-artists-everywhere:
By now, Lascaux has grown principally into a
massive conservation/preservation industry mobilizing
vast resources and hundreds of experts, many more
than those actually concerned with its artistic content.
Lascaux was NOT meant to be art!
These are
Religion is no more credible than art, to describe Lascaux, perhaps
much less so due to its hyper-explanatory application to cultures (also
an aggregatingly suspect term) from a polished view, to gloss raw material
with a narrative rationale likely to appeal to consumers, or best, to funders
of
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 10:45:33PM +0100, Rob Myers wrote:
On 05/08/2012 05:52 PM, Morlock Elloi wrote:
The curiously absent question is why there should be social media in the
first place, and 'media' in general.
Lascaux.
Notice that memes and image macros is a regression to pictorial
For what it's worth, the *original* Internet (okay, ARPANET) was
quite centralized and, in fact, had surveillance (albeit of a
very small group of researchers who had grown reluctant to travel
to brain-storm) as (one of) its primary goals.
This is a strange thing to say. Centralised in
Interesting question William --
So, does capitalism still have a broad social *purpose* once a
significant level of industrialization has already been achieved?
I have a Harris tweed jacket that I like very much and wear almost
every day. I like to take the train. Did the history that
Lascaux is far from being low cost/free and with global reach, which I had
in mind.
Show me someone who contributes to 'social media' today with an eye on
recognition 10,000 years from now. Which is what transpired in Lascaux -
the style did not change for thousands of years, and very few
Privacy, Moglen, @ioerror, #rp12
I gave a talk with Jacob Applebaum at last week's Re:publica conference
in Berlin.
It seems it had fallen to us to break a little bad news. Here it is.
- We are not progressing from a primitive era of centralized social
media to an emerging era of
dear Dmytri,
On Tue, 08 May 2012, Dmytri Kleiner wrote:
In the meantime, we have many clever and dedicated people
contributing to inventing alternative platforms, and these platforms
can be very important and worthwhile for the minority that will ever
use them, but we do not have the social
Dmytri:
Eliminating privilege is a political struggle, not a technical one.
Ahah -- therein lies the conundrum. Are you sure that you can defend
this, apparently controversial, priority scheme?
Where does one's politics come from? In particular, what might *cause*
an anti-privilege
Thanks for that Dmytri. I find the way Jake Appelbaum frames these
issues very accessible and clarifying for my own thinking, and what
you wrote here continued to do that for me.
Jaromil, can you add to what you're writing here? I feel that I
could learn a lot from you, but am missing enough
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