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Sometimes it just doesn't pay to get out of bed. First Evgeny Morozov steals Eden Medina's reporting on Stafford Beer's work in Chile, mentioning her only in passing with no acknowledgement of her work. (h/t to Louis for forwarding the article exposing Morozov). Now Greg Grandin writes an article in counterpoint to Morozov without mentioning Medina at all. What's worse, it's clear from Grandin's article that he hasn't even read Medina. She stresses throughout, with concrete examples, that the intentions of Beer and Allende were to involve workers in the decision-making process. Grandin makes no mention of that, and instead implies that Beer's work was the precursor to the use of computers by Washington and Pinochet to aid repression! So the score so far: Clueless gringo journalists 2, pathbreaking Latina professor 1. My money's still on the latter. http://www.thenation.com/blog/185017/anti-socialist-origins-big-data _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
