Brian,
You wrote a long reply that I am not fully copying into this note.
I agree that the social change equation has so many moving parts
that it is hard to summarize in a way that is simple rather than
merely simplistic. Your
>This is the real difficulty of social theory. The
Dear Brian,
This is twice now that I have read your posts and you speak of fear. Are
people really scared shitless? I have to take, without reducing nettime
to a discussion of US presidential race some succor in the youth voters'
enthusiasm for the crisply spoken, critical voice of Bernie
On 03/17/2016 09:14 PM, d...@geer.org wrote:
What I see is way,
way too much private money looking at way, way too few differentiated
ideas.
Dan, your thoughts are really interesting and I like the specifics of
"the mid-space between investment capital and government programs."
It seems to
I do *not* want argument on this point to derail the larger
and more important issues discussion, but when you say:
>To answer your questions, Patrice, for sure, both North America
>and the EU are sunk in governmental gridlock, and that is the
>essence of the crisis: an inability to
On 15/Mar/16 09:07, Felix Stalder wrote:
The fact that nobody knows how to put all of these things together
into a coherent whole, a new techno-economic paradigm, means that
these technologies and their associated potential are still open
to interpretation and configurations based on particular
The question is, does it matter at all?
The degree of mind-engagement is irrelevant if not properly coupled with
feet-engagement.
In other words, whatever you do with your fingers touching plastic
surfaces and your eyes scanning electronic screens, your brain
constructing fantastic models
On 2016-03-15 07:42, Brian Holmes wrote:
> In the US, the classic sequence of a long downswing is unfolding:
> inventions pile up while the economy stagnates, so the inventions
> are not brought to market. They pile up: electric cars, vastly more
> efficient batteries, driverless cars, digital
On 03/13/2016 12:39 AM, Patrice Riemens wrote:
"here's to that future" indeed, Brian, but I wonder how deeper we must
sink before things get better.
To answer your questions, Patrice, for sure, both North America and the
EU are sunk in governmental gridlock, and that is the essence of the
"here's to that future" indeed, Brian, but I wonder how deeper we must
sink before things get better. And as far as the 'reprise' (crisis is
over) is concerned, the EU commision thinks the same of Europe, and
wants to de-re-regulate (!) banking again, securitize private dept (a
move framed as
This is a great article because it identifies a new variety of
capitalism and demands a response. But Shoshana Zuboff should take
three more steps to give her argument the scope it needs.
First, it's false to claim that surveillance capitalism "corrupts
the unity of supply and demand that has
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05.03.2016, 13:23 Uhr
The Secrets of Surveillance Capitalism
Governmental control is nothing compared to what Google is up to. The
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