Re: Hackaton exploring the digital landscape

2016-10-16 Thread Florian Cramer
Since about half a decade, these types of events have become typical for the Netherlands and its particular flavor of creative industries. Initially, "hackathons" had little to do with hacker culture since they adopted (or even hijacked) the term hacking in a broadly metaphorical

Re: Hackaton exploring the digital landscape

2016-10-16 Thread seb olma
Patrice, Andreas, It’s painful to see these charades continuing but in a way, it also isn’t very surprising. There is tho, without any doubt, a strong connection between the celebration of digitally enhanced changeless change and the authoritarian ‘acceleration’ in the name of the people. I found

Re: RIP Nathalie Magnan

2016-10-16 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
... what a sad piece of news... Nathalie was an amazing, cheerful, unrelenting activist, a great teacher and friend. Here on nettime, she should also be remembered for editing, together with Annick Bureaud, a French language publication of a number of texts and theories that have informed and

India’s Aadhaar project: An Assault on Welfare, Pr

2016-10-16 Thread Harsh Kapoor
sacw.net - 16 October 2016 India’s Aadhaar project: An Assault on Welfare, Privacy and Democracy, Need for an Urgent debate compiled by Aashish Gupta, Praavita Kashyap and Reetika Khera The aadhaar project, to provide a unique number to all residents in India, was packaged as a

Re: Hackaton exploring the digital landscape

2016-10-16 Thread Patrice Riemens
On 2016-10-15 13:50, Andreas Broeckmann wrote: > Is it perhaps part of the political problem of our time > > ... that some people actually believe that it is possible to change and > repair social and political structures that have evolved over decades, > within just a brief period of time, --

guha and the algorithm of hegemeny

2016-10-16 Thread Alex Foti
i just read the latest perry anderson on gramsci's legacy in hall, laclau, guha, arrighi didn't know about domination without hegemony - however what struck me incredibly is its domination/subordination bifurcation tree so i'm gonna share it with you in shorthand (otherwise it's