Re: Stormy weather?

2023-02-18 Thread Lorenzo Tripodi
> On 17 Feb 2023, at 17:35, mp wrote: > > And if you want accelerate the downfall and get it over with, buy an electric > car and promote the electrical paradigm. I would suggest, share a collectively owned one and use it the less as possible… Lorenzo# distributed via : no commercial use wi

Re: Stormy weather? Daniele Ganser edit

2023-02-14 Thread Lorenzo Tripodi
orist and anti vaxxer makes it indeed false. I wonder how much of what Giorgio Agamben (just to name one of many) has produced should be now scraped out of meritorious opinions given the circumstances… Lorenzo Tripodi > On 14 Feb 2023, at 10:48, Michael Guggenheim wrote: > > Dear

Re: What does the bridge in the Mona Lisa mean?

2020-08-04 Thread Lorenzo Tripodi
Hi Max According top the Italian common opinion, the landscape in the background of the Mona Lisa is not invented, but is composed of precise points of the Tuscan landscape. We find the point where the Arno River passes the countryside of Arezzo and receives the waters of the Val di Chiana. The

Re: Facebook

2019-11-04 Thread Lorenzo Tripodi
Similar example. I never had a Facebook account, either personal or with my projects in the fields of media and participative urbanism, but often had to lurk through my collaborators or intern in order to get to circles I wanted to access. Now I am starting a new project curating the citizen’s

Re: Facebook’s “toxic” global lobbying

2019-03-03 Thread Lorenzo Tripodi
Patrice, this is an interesting perspective, but how do you expect NRA supported armed trumpians, trained fascists and various paramiltary goons training full day at shoot-all video games, backed likely by the above quoted corporate rulers and with the enthusiastic external support of Russian

Re: England leaves Europe

2016-06-25 Thread Lorenzo Tripodi
> On 25 Jun 2016, at 03:43, Michael H. Goldhaber wrote: > > But what about the fact that those under 50 voted to stay by sizable margins? this is a fundamental point. It really looks likes an intergenerational fracture, where aged people nostalgic of a past world order (based on imperialistic

Re: notes from the DIEM25 launch

2016-02-25 Thread Lorenzo Tripodi
> On 25 Feb 2016, at 07:09, Brian Holmes wrote: > > It has to start by admitting that there is no cultural/ > artistic solution when people are trapped in poverty and isolated > by racism. Thank you Brian for your usual clarity. As an individual and as a member of a media collective I always

Re: McKenzie Wark: Birth of Thanaticism

2015-10-17 Thread Lorenzo Tripodi
Great piece. Agree with most of the content. Still I am not convinced of the term thanaticism - despite the nice assonance with Thatcherism. Forces of capital are all but aiming at death. They want to live. ???They live??? Capital is autonomously developing as a new form life. Money underst

Re: Fwd: the European manifesto of Varoufakis and Piketty

2015-09-12 Thread Lorenzo Tripodi
at 19:11, Geert Lovink wrote: > ? > >> On 12 Sep 2015, at 5:47 pm, Lorenzo Tripodi wrote: >> >>> On 12 Sep 2015, at 10:57, Geert Lovink wrote: >>> >>> Thanks, Alex. They have now annouced a conference in November. <...> # distribute

Re: [Networkedlabour] Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy

2014-12-30 Thread Lorenzo Tripodi
On 30 Dec 2014, at 20:10, Brian Holmes wrote: The fact is, we don't need a "growth wave." Very well said Brian. But difficult to tell (or sell) to the masses, though... this is one of the points where creativity is needed to bake new visions... lorenzo

Re: the leopard 2.0 - nothing changes in italy and the mummy wins (...

2013-05-07 Thread Lorenzo Tripodi
On Apr 27, 2013, at 4:58 PM, Jim wrote: > I'm a bit at a loss here, cari Italiani, help me out. As anarchist by > conviction, I think every initiative that wrests power from those who > usurp it to then distribute it, should be welcomed. I also think that > a future democracy will have to use the

Re: the leopard 2.0 - nothing changes in italy and the mummy wins (...

2013-04-24 Thread Lorenzo Tripodi
On Apr 23, 2013, at 4:36 PM, Alex Foti wrote: > Yesterday's local elections in Friuli (Trieste and Udine's region, > extremely hit by the crisis) showed that Grillo halved his votes > since the general elections, as barely 50% voted. The sense here is > that the tide is no longer with him, b

Re: Bitcoin, the end of the Taboo on Money

2013-04-08 Thread Lorenzo Tripodi
On Apr 8, 2013, at 8:23 AM, Felix Stalder wrote: > PS: I put "the state" in quotation marks because of the difficulty of > drawing clear boundaries around any such entities. Do privately-run > but publicly-mandated and -subsidized daycare centers (kitas, in > German) belong to the state? I do no

Re: Facebook's perfect spam_laboratory

2013-01-17 Thread Lorenzo Tripodi
On Jan 16, 2013, at 3:07 PM, Keith Sanborn wrote: > Good point. The question is: is this a significant difference, or > mutation from the society of the spectacle noted in the 1967. hi Keith, not really, IMMO. Rather this is the fully accomplishment of the Debordian prophecy, given in additi

Re: Facebook's perfect spam_laboratory

2013-01-16 Thread Lorenzo Tripodi
peech. I wonder if it is simply F***book, or the society at large obliterating such a difference... Lorenzo Tripodi Urbanist film maker # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultura

Re: crowd-funding on nettime

2012-08-29 Thread lorenzo tripodi
very interesting discussion indeed. what about announcements of conferences where the participants pay a fee? It is so different from crowdsourcing to make an event happen? Are they moderated on this list? ciao lorenzo On Aug 28, 2012, at 8:45 PM, John Hopkins wrote: > >> Crowd-sourcing is a f

Re: The $100bn Facebook question: Will capitalism survive 'value abundance'?

2012-03-05 Thread lorenzo tripodi
Dear all, thanks for the stimulating discussion. Let me add some reflection from the point of view of an urbanist which considers media and ICT as undistinguished and integral part of the urban field. In my idea, to a marxist reading of Facebook as a place of labour exploitation, it would be r