One of the questions that Keith Hart asks is: "Does the forced marriage
of the informal economy and the internet produce classes or interests
that the Marxists would once have considered 'advanced'?"
I guess the question is whether the mass unemployment of educated and
self-educated people giv
Ed's intervention, acting as a sort of chorus, links this thread to an
earlier one in December, Debt Campaign Launch:
http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-1112/msg8.html. I for
one am grateful for this further reflection on important themes. It matters
if calling the US today "capita
Dutch IT entrepreneur and 'New Edge' evangelist Luc Sala was very much
part of the 'digital hippies' scene of the 80s and 90s on the West
coasts of both the old and the new continent. You can read the full
text of his reminiscences to Mondo2000 here (with new versions as they
appear, this is from
