Since about half a decade, these types of events have become typical
for the Netherlands and its particular flavor of creative industries.
Initially, "hackathons" had little to do with hacker culture since they
adopted (or even hijacked) the term hacking in a broadly metaphorical
sen
Patrice, Andreas,
It’s painful to see these charades continuing but in a way, it also
isn’t very surprising. There is tho, without any doubt, a strong
connection between the celebration of digitally enhanced changeless
change and the authoritarian ‘acceleration’ in the name of the people. I
found
... what a sad piece of news... Nathalie was an amazing, cheerful,
unrelenting activist, a great teacher and friend.
Here on nettime, she should also be remembered for editing, together
with Annick Bureaud, a French language publication of a number of texts
and theories that have informed and
Many reports on Facebook confirm that Nathalie Magnan passed
away yesterday, Sat 15 October 2016.
Some nettimers knew her, a few more probably know of her, but
most may have at most seen her name. What follows is a brief
effort to cobble together a short memorial, partly in the
hope that others wh
sacw.net - 16 October 2016
India’s Aadhaar project: An Assault on Welfare, Privacy and Democracy,
Need for an Urgent debate
compiled by Aashish Gupta, Praavita Kashyap and Reetika Khera
The aadhaar project, to provide a unique number to all residents in
India, was packaged as a welfare-enabling
On 2016-10-15 13:50, Andreas Broeckmann wrote:
> Is it perhaps part of the political problem of our time
>
> ... that some people actually believe that it is possible to change and
> repair social and political structures that have evolved over decades,
> within just a brief period of time, -- if
i just read the latest perry anderson on gramsci's legacy in hall,
laclau, guha, arrighi
didn't know about domination without hegemony - however what struck me
incredibly is its domination/subordination bifurcation tree so i'm
gonna share it with you in shorthand (otherwise it's thre