Hi List and Marc,
I wondered, when I sat in the audience, whether this was a move away
from earlier performances. Also saw a Sterling key note at Siggraph a
few years back, where his call to the audience was quite different:
to invent more gadgets, better things etc. This year, it was all
critical. Both times, his key notes were in tune with the festival
themes.
Isn't the internet THE invention of neo-liberal capitalism, promoted
by the Clinton et. al. administrations plus lots of support for media
based art for a number of years, and by participatig we all are
contributing to 'neoliberal aspects of techno-capitalist culture'?
Jorn
Am 05.02.2014 um 13:00 schrieb [email protected]:
Von: marc garrett <[email protected]>
Datum: 5. Februar 2014 10:30:41 MEZ
An: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <[email protected]
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Betreff: Re: [NetBehaviour] Bruce Sterling / transmediale 2014
afterglow Opening Ceremony.
Antwort an: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <[email protected]
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Hi Rob,
Yes, it did look as though was trying to correct his past mistakes,
realising that by not questioning the neoliberal aspects of techno-
capitalist culture, one is actually contributing to it…
wishing you well.
marc
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Worth noting that Sterling corrects some of his recent Morozovism in
that talk:
http://boingboing.net/2014/02/04/bruce-sterling-on-making-the-i.html
In particular, I was impressed by this speech because it corrected
some
serious errors from Sterling's essay "The Ecuadorian Library,"
which, as
Danny O'Brien pointed out completely misattributed a kind of
optimistic
naivete to technology activists past and present.
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