I thought post-modernity is founded on economical inequality expressed as an elitist conceptual approach towards its own narrow circle of like minded and privileged fellow travelers
They, i.e. postmodernists, forget that the majority of the people still are living in conditions not so different from 19th century juvenile capitalism, and only the exclusive domain of the western world is 'trying' to overcome and starting to live in a presumable postmodern condition. Alas for the rest of the world, post modernist developments underestimate the economical ties between wanted intellectual and economical freedom and actual economical and intellectual enslavement and prison-ship -- Andreas Maria Jacobs w: http://nictoglobe.com w: http://burgerwaanzin.nl w: http://nictoglobe.com/new/agam e: [email protected] e: [email protected] On Mon, March 7, 2011 14:52, Rob Myers wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > http://stunlaw.blogspot.com/2011/03/augmented-inequality.html > > "When thinking about the profound changes introduced by digital > technology at a social, economic and political level, it is > interesting to see recent arguments being made in terms of two > elites battling out for supremacy over who is able to 'control' > culture and serve as the gatekeepers to it (see Jarvis 2011, > Anderson 2011). Here I want to think of them as two camps, on the > one side we have what I call the moderns, represented by writers > like Nick Carr (2011) and Matthew Crawford (2010), and in the > postmodern camp writers like Jeff Jarvis (2011) and Clay Shirky > (2010). > [...] > However, the arguments of the postmoderns have an important and > critical flaw – they are blind to the problems created by economic i > nequality. " > > [Dave Berry, the author of the above, is giving a talk with Simon > Yuill in London on the 11th March, which I'd highly recommend - > http://www.gold.ac.uk/cultural-studies/calendar/?id=4342 ] > > - -Rob. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNdOMGAAoJEOqcdhxmxssCo9wIAIeMfV3gs+syKRGUci3gJL9o > C8p09KwCCDy6nCJKLjgYw32yg7A/EbHVfKtxsMBdkfr6VIb3LIFw4GgjtZv6WO3z > yXwuapGw71jTEilqs+2r+jemHg2lM1Eaz0vXoroZMLrEaaFwy/nnKzl2oNNRI3cu > 60Jlq+CIzVruBbLPzVngeZtE9UgrtfZzVN/3SLCVvRyUKjtRbuvogk5U2EUitZSa > quH3JvPthJ5AvGqN9B9Ed4pKG81LQUfMU6cWHcjh012r6PNHBph6xgr1uV8Mag/v > 7g6kIHpywZBBQAA+I4FHSCVFnJ71Q+jh37d5+57Cr6NIEG2G9d5ZDTFAlBG0uxo= =QCRM > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
