an impersonal, hyper-bureaucratic or
> technocratic structure react to the reassertion of personal power claims,
> against the backdrop of rising neonationalist populism? Why is what used to
> be called "the left" so quiescent in the face of this emergent
> transformation in the
Dear Brian, dear all, an intriguing discussion.
I guess some things are in the eye of the beholder. Both Morozov and Ström
fail to note at least two aspects of the historical context of the rise of
Big Tech and are easily observed from the post-socialist vantage point.
Firstly, the expansion of
As a clarification, this was Marcell's email from a couple of days ago,
sent to the internal list of the Digital Cultures Research Lab at the
Leuphana University, where Marcell is doing his PhD. Felix was CC-ed on it,
so he forwarded it to the nettime list. Thanks Felix!
Now in our fourth day of
Arg complied with the take-down request for the scan of the book in
question. It was after a while re-upped and again taken down. For the
total time it was up, it was downloaded a small number of times,
nothing that would, even if each download would convert into a lost
sale,
Dear Nettimers,
here's a call to action a number of us working on digital libraries and
archives have published on Monday in response to Elsavier's injunction
against Library Genesis and Science Hub. Due to a problem with
nettime's Mailman software, the letter failed to arrive
