Googlejugend meet death

2017-11-08 Thread Morlock Elloi
While this topic was beaten to death (pun intended), it always elicits some surprise (maybe it's a good sign, the surprise.) Reactions on a tech forum https://archive.is/Fyte7 (original at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15654125) about an article in LA Times

Re: Brexit democracy

2017-11-08 Thread Sean Cubitt
I came late to Brown’s writing, and was deeply impressed: the diagnosis of individualism seems even more astute living for a few months in the States. I’d throw into the mix some thoughts from Laclau’s On Populist Reason: that the unit of social action is neithe rindividuals nor groups, and

Re: Brexit democracy

2017-11-08 Thread Ian Alan Paul
...in hopes of pushing the conversation a bit forward, we have this helpful passage from the end of Brown's most recent book "Undoing the Demos" which I think quite accurately and concisely sums up the present conjuncture we find ourselves within: "The Euro-Atlantic Left today is often depicted,

Re: Introducing Unnon: The Network of the Unknowns

2017-11-08 Thread Felipe Fonseca
No mention of the software license... :P Em 8 de nov de 2017 5:26 AM, "Geert Lovink" escreveu: > Dear nettimers, > > I'm contacting you all to say that Unnon, the network of unknowns, is > becoming a reality. Unnon is now available in its first version, for > iPhone users, at