Dear Friends,
A news report from the Washington Post gave me pause today (quotes below).
Pundits and scholars are quick to evoke China’s effort to automate
surveillance, often mixing science fiction with rumors, as some sort of abyss
at the end of a slippery slope we must avoid for the moral
I'm in favour of broadening the discussion of networks to more readily
include non-human elements such as animals, climate, water, energy, etc.
That was implied already with reference to Anna Tsing's work and here and
there. If that project interests you I invite you to read my new book,
Virtual
On Sunday, July 7, 2019 2:08:12 PM CEST, John Preston wrote:
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The kinds of redevelopment I am talking about are ongoing, there is a
whole legacy of people doing research in a similar thread, so now I ask
why have we not yet realised such a project, or rather what is needed
for further
I believe the fundamental issue goes beyond requiring just public
ownership/operation of these technologies but also public understanding,
and ties in with the HCI discussion in parallel thread "Has net-art lost
political significance?".
I am interested in build a new computer that is drastically
Platforms (Telegram, Facebook, Twitter, and so on) are not the answer; they are
operated by illegitimate gatekeepers who have no place in the conversation or
its management. Some of us would never use such a method to communicate, nor
should we be expected to do so.
Suggest that in an ideal
