Interesting post, and a few comments. First, I'm surprised at how little difference the _leaks_ are making; it's ironically the flesh of Assange and the flesh of his flesh that seems to be of (distributed) core value - the attarcks on Amazon, Mastercard, etc. It's like the breathing of an organism. The truth is that capital can survive exposure, and perhaps thrive on it.
Second point is just other references - Castell (sp) on the information society, Jerry Everard on the disappearance of the nation-state as a result of information/internet flow, even Bourdieu's notion of cultural capital in Distinction. One might think of it as the dematerialization of the atomic - but it's only with the parabolic return of the atomic, that damage ensues; for example, if MasterCard's exposure makes it concretely difficult for flesh-and-blood consumers or investors to do things in the world. There's this fundamental materiality - connected for example to those of us reading/writing on Netbehaviour, sitting terminally, that is ultimately at stake, that grounds the abstraction. You can have infowar, core war, inside a computer; it's at the level of the physical (bringing down the machine, turning it into a brick, obstructing the very local flows of capital, reaching into one's pocket), where the damage is done, where geopoltics ultimately begins and ends. Marx's superstructure drips blood. - Alan == email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ webpage http://www.alansondheim.org music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ current text http://www.alansondheim.org/qv.txt == _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
