On 3/28/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But it's also the institutions promoting it. Free Software strategies are of little use to the capitalists, they'd rather hide that aspect and that funny looking Richard Stallman. James.
that's interesting. i've been going to a couple of conferences, lately, about open source appleid to several subjects such as art, digital rights and identities, social systems aiming to enable autodetermination of populations in peculiar social anthropological situations (there are some really interesting projects, by the way: for example the Pontos de Cultura in Brasil, with Gilbert Gil as ministry of culture). Conferences and workshops held in foundations, institutions, governement buildings. the thing that amazed me was that everyone there seems to be a hacker! jokes apart, hacker ethics and aesthetics seems to be the next toy to be used by the managers of these institutions. they seem to be trying to create an imagery that thay can exploit. They are structuring language, they are creaing expectations. They are using the same words to create a base of consensus. everyone talking about digital rights, a none of them talking about ecology, for example. there is no perception of many issues: p2p is shown as the new molotov bottle_bomb of this era, bradband is shown as a tool for liberation, anything that is made on the web with a couple of colors and the possibility to collabratively tag it is called art. there is no perception of the meanings of these practices: no sign of the fact that behind your pc monitor, the availability of broadband means hundreds of kilometers of optic phiber, buildings full of call centers full of underpaid workers, microwaves running amok thrugh the air. There is no sign of the idea that in most cases, p2p just is an autistic practice through which people fill their drawers with thousands of movies on DVDs that they'll never watch. "god" ( :) ) save us from engineers.
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