Re: nettime The Ghost in the Network

2005-05-17 Thread Keith Hart
In discussing the difference between the living and the nonliving, Aristotle points to the phenomena of self-organized animation and motility as the key aspects of a living thing. For Aristotle the form-giving Soul enables inanimate matter to become a living organism. If life is animation, then

Re: nettime The Ghost in the Network

2005-05-17 Thread Felix Stalder
On Monday, 16. May 2005 12:56, Alexander Galloway and Eugene Thacker wrote: We suggest that this opposition between closed and open is flawed. It unwittingly perpetuates one of today's most insidious political myths, that the state and capital are the two sole instigators of control. Instead