Re: The Gentrification of Hacking: How yuppies hacked the

2015-10-21 Thread Jaromil
dear Patrice, On 12 October 2015 10:10:04 CEST, patrice wrote: >The answer to this, dear Jaromil, is oeuf corse to simply 'do it' (the >practical work on the ground and in the streets) - and not talk too >much about it since it attracts all kinds of un-called for, time

Re: The Gentrification of Hacking: How yuppies hacked the

2015-10-21 Thread Carsten Agger
Den 21-10-2015 kl. 17:15 skrev Jaromil: <...> I don't get what you mean, can you explain? meanwhile: http://ilmanifesto.info/maker-faire-alla-sapienza-violenta-carica-della-polizia-contro-gli-studenti/ protests escalated with 4 student arrests, 10 students armed of which 2 with serious head

late to Volkswagen

2015-10-21 Thread David Garcia
Sorry that this is a rather late and somewhat synoptic addition to the recent thread on the Volkswagen scandal.. The Volkswagen case reminded me of case study (more of an anecdote really) related by the distinguished Sociologist the late Ulrich Beck. It was a story he told to

Re: McKenzie Wark: Birth of Thanaticism

2015-10-21 Thread John Hopkins
On the Thanaticism discussion -- I ran across this excerpt from an interview with Langdon Winner: Q: You have also been critical of the term Anthropocene, the idea that we are living in a new epoch where human activities define ecosystems. It’s an idea that could shape development planning