Renewed Tyranny of Structurelessness (was: rise and fall of

*As long as the, let's call it "hacktivist community", is a free form unconstituted something, it is always subject to the rules of the outside society: attention capitalism, spin doctor style manipulation. Will we ever know if the ioerror drama was, even if based on true human

Re: The 'Jake' Appelbaum case, or the rise and fall of celebrities

On 10 Jun 2016, at 13:07, Patrice Riemens wrote: > It has a lot to do with numbers. These, surprisingly, looked to be in > our favor. Gatherings were ever bigger, the amount of people and > resources mobilized were ever larger. It was probably a delusion. Just > as the numbers

Re: The 'Jake' Appelbaum case, or the rise and fall of celebrities

__ ' *** It has a lot to do with numbers. These, surprisingly, looked to be in our favor. Gatherings were ever bigger, the amount of people and resources mobilized were ever larger. It was probably a delusion. Just

Renewed Tyranny of Structurelessness (was: rise and fall of

On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 01:07:59PM +0200, Patrice Riemens wrote: > Making the rise of celebrities possible inevitably ensures the creation > of a celebrity cult, itself the blueprint for individual failure. We > should not have allowed ourselves to grow so big - as an aggregate. In > my

The 'Jake' Appelbaum case, or the rise and fall of celebrities

The social, and political 'sad demise' (the Hinglish word for death) of Jacob 'Jake' Appelbaum is for me symptomatic, and symbolic, for an epoch definitively coming to its close. To me at least, it resonates with the words of Rieger and Gonggrijp, years ago at a CCC conference: "we lost the