Re: [-empyre-] Our missing guest

2011-07-29 Thread magnus
Tonight BBC2's Newsnight picked up on and reported something that Michel, Magnus and myself were discussing last week, which is the explicit connection between the hacking at News International and the arrest of hackers who are involved with Lulz and Anonymous. Newsnight rightly focused on

Re: [-empyre-] Our missing guest

2011-07-29 Thread magnus
Hi Saul, Thanks for this very interesting read. One striking quote, reminding me of the Lima workshop Julian described: In fact today, according to a company called Arbor Networks who have access to a significant majority of the world’s internet traffic, about 60% of all web traffic terminates

[-empyre-] transforming human culture and the ideosphere through collective intellectuality

2011-07-29 Thread Michel Bauwens
This relates to our discussion on the collective individual in Empyre this week. One of the ways I have conceived of the p2p foundation platform is through a process of 'opportunistic updating' using the whole web as a source. In other words, I'm presupposing that there is a collective wisdom out

Re: [-empyre-] Our missing guest

2011-07-29 Thread Rob Myers
On 28/07/11 23:36, Simon Biggs wrote: I have just heard that one of discussants for this week, Simon Yuill, has been ill and will be unable to be involved in our discussion. We send our best wishes to Simon and hope he gets well soon. Oh wow. Yes, best wishes to Simon. - Rob. signature.asc

Re: [-empyre-] transforming human culture and the ideosphere through collective intellectuality

2011-07-29 Thread Simon Biggs
Kimura's reflections are evocative of the Fordist systems that underpin many socio-economic structures currently existent on our planet, especially those that are industrial or post-industrial (on both the left and the right). But I wonder if it describes all forms of human society and the manner

Re: [-empyre-] transforming human culture and the ideosphere through collective intellectuality

2011-07-29 Thread jmp
hi, On 29/07/11 16:01, Simon Biggs wrote: Kimura's reflections are evocative of the Fordist systems that underpin many socio-economic structures currently existent on our planet, especially those that are industrial or post-industrial (on both the left and the right). But I wonder if it