Hi Michael, thanks for forwarding this snippet. It illustrates how important it is to keep in mind that 'open source' or 'the commons' are nothing inherently progressive, but that such networks can be run on sharing not love but hate, extending fear, rather than trust.
It reminds me of a series of very intriguing blog-posts, written few years ago, on open source warefare, mainly referring to the iraqi insurgency: http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/open_source_warfare/ Felix --- http://felix.openflows.com ----------------------- books out now: *|Deep Search.The Politics of Search Beyond Google.Studienverlag 2009 *|Mediale Kunst/Media Arts Zurich.13 Positions.Scheidegger&Spiess2008 *|Manuel Castells and the Theory of the Network Society. Polity, 2006 *|Open Cultures and the Nature of Networks. Ed. Futura/Revolver, 2005 # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]
