On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Edward Shanken wrote:
> What would the world be like if Roy Ascott's "La Plissure du Texte" (1983)
> sold at auction for $34.2 million instead of Gerhard RIchter's ?Abstraktes
> Bild?? In what sort of world (and artworld) would that be possible?
This question is a
What I find interesting is the realization of the Randian dream through the
refocusing on skills rather than credentials - one of my students just quit
school because of the crushing debt he was going to incur because of the
turning away of the state from higher education, privatization of loans,
l
Jon:
> As i said it appears to me that people have been struggling
> with this since the 90s and i see no sign of it stopping.
Thanks! You are certainly correct that the various "professions" have
circled their own wagons and not stepped up to the challenge of understanding
the effects o
Mark writes:
>But, before you roll up your sleeves, if you want to have any useful
>ideas on the structure of labor (and leisure and consumption) then
>you must begin with a CRASH effort to understand the impact of
>*digital* technology on the economy.
You could also begin with a crash course on
On 05/15/2013 08:56 AM, allan siegel wrote:
The thesis of the death of the middle class is simple and not
peculiar to Sweden: every time you try to define the allegedly most
important contemporary social formation, this "middle class" breaks
into two, writes Greider; one part that serves the ec
http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/saudi-surveillance/
Last week I [Moxie Marlinspike] was contacted by an agent of Mobily, one
of two telecoms operating in Saudi Arabia, about a surveillance project
that they’re working on in that country. Having published two reasonably
popular MITM tools, i
"Twenty years ago, class was not in the vocabulary of Swedish pundits and
mavens. Class was something that belonged to the past. Today, however, it is
back with a vengeance. Recently the Swedish Occupy movement "Allt åt alla"
(Everything for Everyone) organized a bus "safari" through exclusive
Ok, I'll bite: why does digital technology entail the disappearance of a middle
class ? Why cyber serfs instead of a cyber middle class? Some of the answer IS
political and started when Reagan broke the air traffic controllers's strike
and fired every one of them. The negative effects in terms
