Re: The Maker Movement is abandoned by its corporate sponsors; throws in the towel

2019-06-14 Thread Molly Hankwitz
Death of Maker Maker Faire promoted, as many have pointed out, an artisanal/technological relationship and hands on DIY production and in areas of education and experimentation. All great! They tried to be inclusive with low-cost materiality and open access workshops and free-timed events, but

Re: Periodizing With Control

2019-06-14 Thread Garnet Hertz
I'm likely going to get torn apart for saying this, but in regards to "Periodizing With Control"... who cares? What are the implications of this? Seb is super smart and this is nicely crafted and researched - but this lacks any sort of case study, place, context, time or any connection to the

Re: The Maker Movement is abandoned by its corporate sponsors; throws in the towel

2019-06-14 Thread Minka Stoyanova
Hello all, I've really been enjoying this discussion in the wake of Make's dissolution. As noted, the corporatization, whitewashing, and delocalization of potentially critical and creative diy approaches was certainly a problem with the "maker movement" as defined by Make. I also completely agree

Re: Fwd: Who’s *really* backing Boris?

2019-06-14 Thread Heiko Recktenwald
Those examples dont convince me. He is surprisingly well organised. My anwser is "fox, fox, fox". As in Ernst Jandel and dope. And I tell them: remove the hunting ban first. H. << Onderwerp: openDemocracy has just revealed that the two frontrunners, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt, have

Empire Shitholes Überalles aka The Tales of Anthropocene ( and its buddy Surveillance Capitalism ) …

2019-06-14 Thread podinski
hello dear nettimers, ( Quick preface in response to the interesting thread about Nettime being in bad shape ... Ya wanna know what's really in bad shape ? Society in the grips of the whole metastizing Cybernetic Regime... archived List culture might not seem like such the speakeasys makers