On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Nick wrote:
> Interesting read. That said, I would love to read more about the
> interplay of traditional capitalist power structures and bitcoin.
Bitcoin is fundamentally flawed as an emancipatory currency due to it's
reliance on processing cycles. When I first
I wish I could write like that guy. The article exaggerates the threat
posed by Bitcoin and the will/ability of the custodians of state money to
shut it down. But the argument prompts a question that has bugged me for a
while now. How does it come about that one, but only one online exception
to th
When I read a sentence like this:
"Much harder, much more ambitious, and therefore much more difficult to
evaluate, is art that intends to change the very way we see, act and make
sense of our world -- including what we understand to be politics itself."
I see my life story unfolding in a single
Interesting read.
States, and traditional financial authorities, seem to be a pretty
good job of ensuring peoples use of bitcoin is outside their remit,
by closing down the practical use of bitcoin exchanges which
consider themselves 'legitimate,' c.f. the closure of intersango &
mtgox's UK bank a
http://themonetaryfuture.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/the-old-radical-how-bitcoin-is-being.html
Friday, October 26, 2012
The Old Radical: How Bitcoin Is Being Destroyed
Posted by Julia Dixon
DGC Magazine
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
http://www.dgcmagazine.com/the-old-radical-how-bitcoin-is-being-dest
An open letter to critics writing about political art
- Stephen Duncombe & Steve Lambert
Here's the kind of letter I like! And I guess most of nettime does too.
Kudos to Stephen and Steve.
The problem is not necessarily
lazy criticism, but the fact that we don't have a developed vocabulary
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