Re: Interview with German media theorist Sebastian Giessmann

2016-07-25 Thread Florian Cramer
On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Geert Lovink wrote: > It a very diverse piece of scholarly work in the tradition of > German humanities and media theory. As is often the case with > German theory, we start off in Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt > before moving on to

Re: Ethereum: DAO - "The Attacker"

2016-07-25 Thread Rob Myers
On 23/07/16 02:41 AM, Jaromil wrote: > - The REAL community of people behind Ethereum is now rejecting the > bail-out, probably marking in history the first time in which there > can be a bail-out rejection by grass-roots movements?? > Ethereum Classic is announced

Interview with German media theorist Sebastian Giessmann

2016-07-25 Thread Geert Lovink
See also: http://www.necsus-ejms.org/philosophy-weaving-web-interview-media-theorist-sebastian-giessmann/ A Philosophy of Weaving the Web: An Interview with German Media Theorist Sebastian Giessmann By Geert Lovink Unlike predictions `networks' are on their way out. The reason for

Introducing Petropolis

2016-07-25 Thread Brian Holmes
In Chicago we opened a significant exhibition: http://www.mocp.org/exhibitions/2016/07/petcoke-project.php The community partners of this project also succeeded in kicking the Koch brothers out of their backyards, which doesn't always happen. So they were able to really get into the work of

Re: WG: Fwd: Re: Forms of decisionism

2016-07-25 Thread Alex Foti
I totally agree you have to look at productivity distribution regimes (in this boyer-coriat supplemented perez-freeman) - in 1950-1973 it was basically productivity growth out of taylorized assemly-line operation going to wages (in the US, for Germany, Japan and other laggards it

Re: Ethereum: DAO - "The Attacker"

2016-07-25 Thread carlo von lynX
On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 11:41:33AM +0200, Jaromil wrote: > understand (ask yourself, has anyone of them read the DAO code > before putting money on it?? It's the language, stupid!) What I understood from the Forbes article is that the developers of code are ignoring the legal implications

Re: Donald Trump, Peter Thiel and the death of democracy

2016-07-25 Thread John Hopkins
On 24/Jul/16 03:29, János Sugár wrote: imho, he bets on war, Precisely János -- a war on everything, through all means, to leave only he and his family standing in the end, on a desolate and burning plain populated with "for sale" signs. jh --