On 28/07/15 06:15 AM, { brad brace } wrote: > > "Some years ago, the elements (ideas, conceptions, practices, people) > that compose the current (so-called) Free Culture movement were > appropriated by the bureaucrat and the capitalist.
Reading this, I thought it would be about a decade old but it's from 2009 or so? > The ones that made > use of the technologies and available media to the creation of actions > that provided the debate on new perspectives of possible social > arrangements (obtained by tools such as free licenses, networks of > communication, open source software), are today digested by the old > apparatuses and social mechanisms that once they have used and > questioned. They have achieved remarkable success in the *limited domain* that they chose. > They participated, many times unconsciously, in a > "socio-professional training�" in order to occupy the same functions > established for the maintainers of a system that is distant from what we > imagine as a possible human grouping, even more distanced from freedom." They succeeded at reform rather than failing at revolution. That's worthwhile or damning to the extent that one's politics determine it. :-) _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour