Re: nettime Phil Agre: Supporting the Intellectual Life of a Democratic Soc...

2013-09-21 Thread Newmedia
Nettime: Citizens would grow up accustomed to having a public voice, to receiving intellectual responses from others, and to articipating in a global intellectual culture. The cultural conditions of democratic intellectual life will have been achieved. Sorry (to Phil Agre) but this is

Re: nettime Phil Agre: Supporting the Intellectual Life of a Democratic Soc...

2013-09-21 Thread mp
On 20/09/13 19:20, newme...@aol.com wrote: Nettime: Citizens would grow up accustomed to having a public voice, to receiving intellectual responses from others, and to articipating in a global intellectual culture. The cultural conditions of democratic intellectual life will have been

Re: nettime Phil Agre: Supporting the Intellectual Life of a Democratic Soc...

2013-09-21 Thread Newmedia
MP: What part of the technological environment prompted you to apologise twice in this email? The part that replaced the mass with the *individual* . . . !! While the MEMETIC notions of democracy and revolution were promoted by mass-media (therefore, to no body), digital technology has

nettime Aesthetics of Dispersed Attention: Interview

2013-09-21 Thread Geert Lovink
Aesthetics of Dispersed Attention Interview with German Media Theorist Petra L=F6ffler By Geert Lovink When I met Petra L=F6ffler in the summer of 2012 in Weimar I was amazed = to find out about her habilitation topic. She had just finished a study = on the history of distraction from a German