nettime Ippolita Collective, In the Facebook Aquarium, Part One, Section 5,

2014-02-21 Thread Patrice Riemens
Part One, Section 5,1. The Performance Society To sum up: opening an account with/on Facebook means sharing digital 'materials' which make up virtual identities. I am what my behavior on-line is. But spending time creating an on-line image of the self does bear consequences for (one's) life

nettime MoneyLab material #2: Robin Hood Minor Asset Management

2014-02-21 Thread Geert Lovink
From the reviews: Robin Hood is the first commonist investment fund based on the principles of Deleuze and Guattari. It takes off where George Soros and his anti-cyclical theories stopped thinking. Instead of further colonizing tiny time segments, as quants continue to do, Robin Hood mobilzes

nettime mass social mini-digest [x2: schmidt, senalp]

2014-02-21 Thread nettime's_indigestive_system
Re: nettime Mass Social Network Strike Matze Schmidt matze.schm...@n0name.de Orsan Senalp orsan1...@gmail.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 12:15:30 +0100

Re: nettime MoneyLab material #2: Robin Hood Minor Asset

2014-02-21 Thread Patrice Riemens
Re: What is Robin Hood Minor Asset Management? Our cooperative was established in 2012 based on detailed analysis and understanding of the imitative nature of the financial market and to challange the big banks and their elite asset management business. ... Here for a slightly less fuzzy

nettime Attack on homoentropy [Re: Ippolita Collective, In the

2014-02-21 Thread morlockelloi
One of the hardest things with machines is to generate sufficient unpredictability, to create good encryption keys or quality simulations. Randomness is hard to come by, for computers. Usually this is done by listening to the supposed outside world, network interrupts, A/D noise, disk seek

Re: nettime conjunctural analysis

2014-02-21 Thread John Hopkins
On 19/Feb/14 21:38, d...@geer.org wrote: Tangentially related, this is a rundown of student economics as measured by lifetime ROI for the price of tuition (in the US): Hi Dan -- thanks for bringing this data up tangentially... but these numbers are verging on fantasy -- I know for my alma