Re: nettime tensions within the bay area elites

2014-05-14 Thread olivier auber
-Are there regional differences in how converging technologies are imagined by science policy (E.U. vs USA vs elsewhere in world)? -Has/How has the transhumanist imagination influenced the direction of software development communities? Which ones? -What is the transhumanist imagination?

nettime democracy and decentralization

2014-05-14 Thread allan siegel
Hello, Well, there is a difference between actual physical control and the propogated illusion of control (thanks Brian for bringing Foucault back into the discussion - I have the feeling he never left). If we accept or passively follow the various socialising paradigms where mega-companies

nettime Ippolita Collective, In the Facebook Aquarium Part Two,

2014-05-14 Thread Patrice Riemens
Ippolita Collective, In the Facebook Aquarium Part Two, section #3 (continued) (Section #3) Technological Darwinism from the Paypal Mafia to Facebook: the resistible rise of anarcho-capitalism. (...) It is therefore appropriate to provide information on these initiatives - actually each of