On 05/05/2012 01:56 PM, Nicholas Knouf wrote:
How does one take a principled stand against the repugnant policies
of the Koch Bros., while also holding out the possibility that their
philanthropic actions just_might_ cause some positive change in the
world?
I reckon it's close to impossible.
Hey Keith, good to hear from you.
On 05/06/2012 05:50 AM, Keith Hart wrote:
The first thing that stands out to me is that you identify your own
role with that of a critic. There are other ways of engaging society
and perhaps we should start with that. Which critics in history do
you think made
Long live Thorstein Veblen! The shining light of radical sociology on
the Left.
On 05/08/2012 01:54 AM, Keith Hart wrote:
I think the main difference between Brian and me is that he wants to
engage personally with the politics of our moment in history and this
comes across sometimes as being m
On 05/10/2012 03:23 AM, Dan S. Wang wrote:
My friend at Yahoo, a senior engineer, tells me that his co-workers are in a
lather. Their CEO, known for a leadership style, reorganization strategy,
and corporate housecleaning method akin to swinging a double-headed axe
blindfolded, apologized twice
Thanks to Keith for the brilliant recap of Veblen's Business Enterprise
(which is definitely the foundation behind The Engineers and the Price
System). For anyone who hasn't read Veblen, Keith's choice phrases
occasionally quoted in parentheses are there as a writer's homage to one
of the great
On 05/17/2012 12:28 AM, Keith Hart wrote:
> I would add that each individual or group inserts themsleves
> into the social and technical movement at a particular point in
> time with a bundle of assets and drawbacks in terms of skills,
> experience, online history and offline engagements. It is h
[Greets everyone. I will be holding a version 2.0 or European redux of the Three
Crises Seminar in Berlin from June 17 to 23 (http://occupybb7.org/node/34).
Armin Medosch will be there as an interlocutor for about half of it. Given the
context I guess many will want to talk about KW, Occupy Berlin
On 06/30/2012 07:45 PM, Patrice Riemens wrote:
On the technical side, the Minitel was the losing pawn in the end in the
'system battle' between the centralised Transpac/X.25 network and the
distributed TCP/IP based Internet (whose basic feature, packet switching,
is claimed by the French to be r
On 07/15/2012 09:48 AM, Patrice Riemens forwarded this:
The notion that the entire global financial system is riddled with
systemic fraud – and that key players in the gatekeeper roles, both in
finance and in government, including regulatory bodies, know it and
choose to quietly sustain this rea
On 07/27/2012 09:43 AM, newme...@aol.com wrote:
We obsess over the *figures* (i.e. the capitalists, 1%ers, police, church,
state, etc.), while we ignore the *ground* of our experiences (i.e.
television, mass-media, advertising, etc.)
I've been hanging out with this crowd for 15 years now and i
On 10/01/2012 02:55 AM, Felix Stalder wrote:
For me, the political test for all these things is whether they are
set as alternatives to commodity markets and private ownership, or
as alternatives to public infrastructures. In the first case, one
might get something interesting, in the second it'
you.
Because we're all in this together.
OK, I hear the call. And it is a generous one. So how do we move forward?
Thanks, Brian Holmes
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Fabulous article.
The art market (now based on auctions and mega-fairs much more than
galleries) is said to be the world's largest totally unregulated market.
But I think narcotics have been conveniently left out of that calculation!
Typically there is a large boom in the art market after sto
[From the we're-much-closer-to-socialism-than-you-think department.]
"Seriously, what's so funny about a trillion dollar coin?"
by Dan Hind
Mohandas Gandhi once gave a useful summary of the political process:
"First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you.
Then you win." E
On 01/18/2013 08:05 AM, Keith Hart wrote:
A century ago, Alfred Marshall, author of Principles of Economics (1890)
and Keynes' teacher at Cambridge defined economics as "both a study of
wealth and a branch of the study of man". But, in a manifesto published in
the Harvard Business Review last mo
Hello Keith, hello everyone -
On 01/19/2013 12:48 PM, Keith Hart wrote:
> I believe we are witnessing a drive for corporate home rule which would
> leave them the only citizens in a world society made to suit their
> interests. This is the logical conclusion of the collapse of the
> difference b
On 01/21/2013 08:52 AM, newme...@aol.com wrote:
Does either Sugihara or Arrighi ever mention Tavistock or "social
psychology"? Were they part of the "humans relations" movement (i.e. the
title of the SOCPSY journal, starting in 1947)?
Mark, I am always fascinated by your ideas and the t
On 01/22/2013 08:15 AM, newme...@aol.com wrote:
If you don't understand these cycles (and, importantly, the
subsequent work on the topic), can you really say that you have
read Schumpter? George Gilder, today's popularizer of Schumpeter,
insisted that the Dot Com bust was the result of excessive
[This was written several days ago, but seems to have gotten lost in a
Martian time-slip.]
On 01/23/2013 09:05 AM, newme...@aol.com wrote:
> There you go again! You really can't put an "ideology" on these
> developments, since they are not being driven by the *ideas* so much as
> by the techn
I quite enjoy this discussion.
On 01/28/2013 08:36 AM, newme...@aol.com wrote:
> What sort of economic growth does "informationalism" (or what many
> have long called "The Information Age" and what was originally
> called "Post-industrialism") offer for those economies that no
> longer have ind
On 03/25/2013 08:19 AM, newme...@aol.com wrote:
Based on the categories that have become widespread over the past 40
years, I guess that I am a "technological determinist" -- perhaps
the worst sort of "thought criminal" possible in social science.
Mark, the simple answer to your question is t
Are our Dutch hacker friends too embarrassed to report anything about
last week's DDoS that is said to have caused the greatest slowdown of
the Internet ever?
Some nasty anti-Semitic declarations by the chief suspect filled the US
brainwaves - repulsive stuff. Yet for all the rest I am feeling
On 04/25/2013 05:31 AM, nettime's avid reader wrote:
The software uses artificial intelligence to grade student essays and
short written answers, freeing professors for other tasks.
Such as:
a. raw domination
b. rank servitude
c. outright revolution
[Note: You can only tick one of the boxes..
On 04/26/2013 09:52 AM, newme...@aol.com wrote:
Machines will*never* become "conscious" or "emotional" or "spiritual"
because none of that is "programmed" into them.
Alas, but as the mod squad have noted, people can eaily be turned into
very dull and disspirited beings when they are compelle
Much of the frustration felt by today's *activists* about how whatever
they try to do it just seems to be "commodified" and absorbed by
"late-stage capitalism" is the result of trying to apply radio-era
tactics in an age dominated by television sensibility. If you don't
*understand* media, then y
On 05/13/2013 07:11 PM, Keith Hart wrote:
Lanier's ideas about the middle class as an artificial product of
modernity are interesting and of course I loved all that stuff about the
digital revolution generating a shift from formal to informal economy.
The "middle classes" dependent on a neo-im
I'm sorry, I should have given the source for my observation about the
return of high-wage and low-wage jobs in the US, compared to the
devastating loss of mid-wage jobs. It is here:
http://bigstory.ap.org/interactive/interactive-great-reset
It's an amazing little animated graph, dated 2013. W
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
On 05/24/2013 04:50 AM, nettime's avid reader wrote:
Larry Summers, former US treasury secretary, thinks that
the challenge of the decades ahead is not debt or competition from
China but the dramatic transformations that technology is bringing
... a world of what Summers calls automated "doers"
Hello Frederic!
On 05/28/2013 08:46 AM, frederic neyrat wrote:
I was thinking about your expression, "constituent forces": they
already exist, they already work, they already produce, and they can
do that until the "end". So, for me, the real problem is not only to
know where is the constituent
On 05/27/2013 07:19 AM, newme...@aol.com wrote:
> Sorry if I missed this in your earlier writing! What you are promoting
> is *not* the "working class" (production) or the "managerial class"
> (neoliberals) but rather the "intellectual class" -- your CLASS . . . !!
Mark, you got it! That's exac
For a few additional links and images see the blog version:
http://permanentcrisis.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-weakest-link.html
THE WEAKEST LINK:
Spain in the Circuit of European Capital
An elder woman with a yard-long wooden spoon stirs a huge pan of paella
bubbling over a ring of blue flame. Win
Here's something interesting:
On 06/03/2013 07:04 PM, Fenwick Mckelvey wrote:
> ... we must come to terms with our own online activities
> feeding the appetites of algorithmically-driven machines designed to
> facilitate the expansion of profit and power by quantifying and
> modulating our desir
I agree with Dimitry below. It should be noticed that existing
communication circuits and forms of social cooperation have all been
built over the last twenty years. On the one hand, social media was at
least partially prefigured by Indymedia and similar iniatives fifteen
years ago, the huge ci
I agree that' the specialist responses are the saddest. Not just clever
people, but anyone who paid attention since TIA in 2002 knew this was
going on. All the people who are trying to be more cynical than thou are
lame. There is a huge difference between intellectuals knowing what the
state is
On 07/02/2013 08:32 PM, Marko Peljhan wrote:
Here in the US, more than half of the public opinion does not care much
about the fact that all of our communications and patterns are being
gathered and stored...it is an incredible reaction.
Ah ha, but the beauty is in the other half, no?
I mean,
On 07/26/2013 05:59 AM, Karen O'Rourke wrote:
Seen from France today, Turner's thesis makes a lot of sense. Many
people here did not buy into the counterculture, prefering to stick to
good old-fashioned agonistic politics.
Karen, I lived a long time in France and engaged with collective
strug
On 07/29/2013 09:57 AM, Karen O'Rourke wrote:
Brian, I think we sometimes need clearly drawn theoretical storylines
(or pat simplifications, if you will) to allow some rewiring to take
place (keep those neurons on their toes). We need to get Turner's map in
our heads before we can confront it wi
Dateline: USSA, 21st century futures
Dispatch: Global policeman threatens strike
Main text:
Can Amerika's first black president use his Nobel Peace Prize to lead a
war-weary country into yet another display of technological prowess by
the military-industrial complex? Will the horrific Syrian
On 09/23/2013 01:46 AM, nettime's avid reader wrote:
The researchers say there’s much more to learn, especially at the border
where human traders and robotic ones interact. One question is whether
moving at computer speeds is inefficient because there’s less
information available at that time sc
Hi Chad -
First off, not to worry, I recall good interactions with you and I
respect you as well.
On 09/26/2013 02:40 PM, Chad Scoville wrote:
The conversation should be less emotional about the implications of
this systemically, and instead how much novelty gets generated in
culture as a af
In 2009 I had a visceral experience of the world described in this post.
As a former Californian I had long since understood that I was priced out
of my home state and would never again live in the city of San Francisco
(which anyway was losing its charms as the monoculture set it). It is a
strang
On 01/22/2014 03:06 AM, allan siegel wrote:
exactly what kind of planning/organizing/conceptualizing is necessary
(or possible) not simply as a defense against the OS of a corporate
totalitarianism but to envision and "plan" a new trajectory of
possibilities altogether?
Allan, always so intere
On 01/31/2014 04:26 AM, d.garcia wrote about:
the wider problem of how to re-connect political activism to some form
of re-booted labor movement able garner credibility from the workforce
in these van garde creative economies exemplified by Silicon Valley
Well, if the Valley is the hivemind of
On 02/01/2014 03:02 PM, Michael H Goldhaber wrote:
Sadly, Brian misspoke (or miswrote)
Indeed I misspoke - or deluded myself? A moment of wish-fulfillment?
The interesting thing is that the neighboring airport town of SeaTac
passed a 15-dollar minimum wage law. It was challenged and a judge
Jeremy Gilbert has written a beautiful tribute to Stuart Hall. Nothing
could tell us more about the qualities of the man who has just passed
than this living echo of those qualities, remade and transformed by
another human being. One learns that the greatest thing you can possibly
create is not
On 02/16/2014 02:25 PM, t byfield wrote:
A first step in a conjunctural analysis might be to note that
students and faculty are structural, maybe even 'natural,' allies. Step
two might be for faculty to act accordingly.
Understatement of the year award! ...
One of the most decisive
changes t
On 02/19/2014 10:38 PM, d...@geer.org wrote:
> Tangentially related, this is a rundown of student economics as measured
> by lifetime ROI for the price of tuition (in the US):
>
>http://www.payscale.com/education/average-cost-for-college-ROI-2011
>
> I loaded that up in Excel to get a picture
It's important news.
US academia has primarily been a game of self-interest over the
neoliberal period. Will these new threats finally convince professors
of two things?
One: Only by taking the problems faced by debt-struck students
seriously can they find powerful allies in their own struggle.
On 04/13/2014 01:54 AM, Patrice Riemens wrote:
More companies are entering partnerships with colleges to help design
curricula, as state universities seek new revenue and industry tries
to close a yawning skills gap.
Well, yeah, these are the trends that have been emerging since 2008. The
cor
On 04/13/2014 03:41 PM, © Robbins wrote:
Actually these "trends" have been recognized as in existence for
far longer . Relative to my own experience on the academy ( in
California, ) their both overt and covert "influence" relative to
the directives of curricula has been exercised since the mid
On 05/11/2014 01:38 PM, Michael Weisman wrote:
I don't think this is a Bay Area thing. Google, Schmidt, and even
Cory, operate at a supranational level, traveling from place to place
and speaking and working all over the globe, without any regard to
national borders or local cultures.
Yet the
On 05/12/2014 04:47 AM, d.garcia wrote:
Which company is currently in the spotlight and today's designated Dr.
Evil is less important than the legitimate hostility and generalised
anger at the winner takes all economy of info capitalism that these
companies collectively represent.
This is the
On 05/13/2014 12:31 AM, michael gurstein wrote:
Now that Google's halo is a wee bit dented some deeper reflection on what
Google might, through its search algorithms, be doing to our underlying
frameworks of knowledge--either inadvertently by structuring them in pursuit
of its commercial goals o
US, the
epitome of the Chinese-American exploitative production line, and what
soft power wants to be when it grows up (ie, total ideological
domination). So if you are already captured to the point of total
servility, fine. They will enjoy that.
Brian Holmes
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In 2008, a fellow named Mark Leonard published what was probably the
most useful book of the year, entitled "What does China think?" With
great concision he went through the country's think tanks, one by one,
with a five or six page summary of the people, the problematics and the
major statem
Hello everyone -
Here's a report from recent activities in Chicago:
Since April 25, Rozalinda Borcila and I have been developing a research
device called "Foreign Trade Zone: A People's Consultancy," in the
metropolitan region of Chicago. It consists of a map room in ThreeWalls
Gallery, a pro
On 07/09/2014 12:53 AM, nettime's avid reader wrote:
It turns out that one of the researchers who ran Facebook's recent
psychological experiments received funding from the U.S. Department of
Defense to study the contagion of ideas
So why should the crossover of one researcher be so suspicious?
On 07/14/2014 09:19 PM, nettime_2.0 wrote:
* Why did people who communicate and learn together, people who had
the world, leave it, en masse, for a shopping mall?
Once I met one of the enrages of May 68, who explained to me that even
after that fateful day when De Gaulle returne
[ I'm "on the lam" in Mongolia - with a biennial after my own heart,
first time. BH ]
Touch the Blue Sky:
Land Art for the 21st Century
http://tinyurl.com/touch-blue-sky-pdf
1.
The soil of the steppe is a light ocher yellow, soft, friable, almost
powdery in your hand. Although this is the
Alex, it's always great to read your all-embracing visions (though
actually what we are living through now is more like a Bruce Sterling
novel than a William Gibson one). Anyway, I would like to go a little
further with the closing points:
In Ukraine, American and European interests seem to div
On 10/04/2014 11:48 AM, Tjebbe van Tijen wrote:
'Rule of law' did not only benefit big business, but also functioned
as social leveller for the less affluent citizens of Hong Kong,
because a successful economy is only hampered by too blatant social
unequally in its direct realm.
Dear Tjebbe, d
Excuse me, my infatuation with impressive numbers caused me to write
billionaires, not millionaires, in the sentence below. Still, 114,000 of
them makes a good-sized oligarchy! And a helluva dinner party, I would
imagine...
On 10/05/2014 10:28 AM, Brian Holmes wrote:
Hong Kong is the city
On 10/05/2014 03:13 PM, Flick Harrison wrote:
Your support for Democracy in Hong Kong might be met with some
opposition here, from those unwilling to distinguish it from capitalism.
Of course, I can well imagine, and I wanted to provoke exactly them with
exactly that.
My support first goes
On 10/07/2014 11:52 AM, dan s wang wrote:
>I hope young HK activists are thinking about long term strategies for
>bridging differences between themselves and their mainland
>contemporaries. After all, the Gini Coefficient in the PRC has become
>much steeper than that of HK. (Not accepting the fig
[ A friend of mine, Nick Smaglio, says this: "They (the occupiers) are
are group of people who met in the heat of Ferguson, and are committed
to preventing the non-profits from swallowing the movement they have
been living in for the last two months. The other night, they led a
thousands-stro
What I'm wondering is, where is Luther Blissett in all this? Now there's
a guy who was interested in the ideas, not the authors. There's a guy
(but it was also a girl) who really knew how to plagiarize.
But... But... But... it's dawning on me! We misunderestimated him!
Evgeny Morozov is a pseu
On 11/28/2014 05:55 PM, nettime's avid reader wrote:
The old media was a vicious and ugly beast, but at least it
recognized the value of supporting full-time employees with
benefits. In techworld, everyone's a permalancer...
... Newspapers were always
ruthless capitalist enterprises that happene
On 12/27/2014 02:26 AM, Michel Bauwens wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>I would like to announce the publication of a 100-pages long book
>authored by Vasilis Kostakis and myself
Find it here, for free of course:
http://p2pfoundation.net/Network_Society_and_Future_Scenarios_for_a_Collabora
Michel, Vasilis, how encouraging to receive your answers. I will read
the texts you suggest, and I will respond to some of your remarks here.
For those who are interested in such things, I have surfed the long
waves myself:
https://brianholmes.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/crisis_theory.pdf
It
Just before Christmas, Joschka Fischer - a man who incarnates the
institutionalization of 1968 - published an article on the Project
Syndicate website entitled "Europe's Make-or-Break Year." At stake, for
him, was the failed recovery, the divisive policy of austerity, the rise
of economic natio
On 01/11/2015 10:55 AM, sebast...@rolux.org wrote:
A Bayesian would probably bet against the future of Democracy in Europe
by now. Especially given the fact there is such a strong prior.
But what's to be done as a Marxist, in the broadest possible sense?
Critique, for sure (the "full recognitio
On 01/13/2015 03:58 PM, allan siegel wrote:
Yes, there is a crisis, that shouldn�t be a big surprise but
what precisely is the crisis?A number of contemporary philosophers
have been wading into this question for some time now; is it the
crisis that marks a break with modernity? Quite possibly. I
Hello Miguel -
Personally, I think this kind of reasoning can lead to very dangerous
"dead-ends". Do you just need to speak of "colonialism" to take away
all individual responsabilities of human beings in their actions
towards others?
Well, no. That's exactly why I wrote, in response to Allan
I agree with Felix. As I said before, we are now at the "political
turn" of the this new Great Depression in Europe. And it's not just a
few radicals who think that there are two forks in this road, one to
the left, one to the right. Everyone thinks so. The disagreements are
about th
On 01/30/2015 08:34 AM, Patrice Riemens wrote:
However, technological advances to which the current banking system is
ill-prepared, especially at the 'retail' level (never mind the not
improbable collapse of the financial/monetary system as we know it),
makes that non-banking, and possibly non-c
thing-that-has-to-do-with-life-itself
**
"Something that has to do with life itself"
A review of *World of Matter*
CUNY Graduate Center, New York, 9/1-11/1, 2014 / by Brian Holmes
How to face the natural crisis of global society? How to engage with the
overwhelming
On 02/26/2015 04:47 AM, d.garcia wrote:
>The dialectical relationship between new styles of production, the rise of
>affective labor and the emergence of new social movements are yet to be
>theorised in ways that will help us as to locate the agents of progressive
>change in a control society. 13.
Make this video go viral! It's spot on and it's HILARIOUS. The
Singaporean kid who made it - call him Youth in Asia after the Hong Kong
Movement - has already been arrested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jMODDfNE0Y
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Down the street there used to be a bar called Dorothy's. A real Chicago
dive, it was run forever by a Greek guy known as Gus. Home to
down-and-outs and shambling drunks, the place would be seized by
wild-eyed hilarity on Saturday nights or during football games. I used
to stop by to pick up a b
Many fascinating things are coming out of this sudden burst of
self-reflexivity on nettime, and I appreciate the listing of issues that
Eric just did. It's also fabulous to hear from so many people who rarely
post, like Sean or Peter or Claire or Helen with her fabulous poem. Now
that we are co
Hey, I heard something in the USA! People are, like, talkin' in
Baltimore! They're makin' smoke signals and everything! They're
signifying! Go Baltimore!
We live here in a country of great democratic ideals, murderous class
violence, and until about a year ago, effective repression of any
seri
What Angelos' remarks show is the disjunct between state policy and the
perception of honest people on the ground in a place like Baltimore. I
have never seen such a large US city left in such a state of
abandonment. Meanwhile Obama tells America to start soul-searching
about poverty
[ On Tuesday, the French National Assembly passed a law granting the
state sweeping powers of surveillance in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo
massacre. On Wednesday, the city council of Chicago passed the first US
law granting reparations to African Americans tortured by the city's own
police for
of years before the industrial revolution. The poisoning of the planet
was built on the way our enlightened societies treat other human beings.
The objectivist poet, Matthias Regan, and the critical cartographer,
Brian Holmes, put two and two together. Regan worked through hundreds o
The philosopher Moishe Postone says that with every fresh growth cycle
of capitalism new use values are created, offering common working people
a sense of possibility, a feeling of experimentation and social
transformation, that is the mainspring of the expansion itself. This
happened in the ea
On 09/16/2015 12:41 PM, wcameronjack...@gmail.com wrote:
The sculpture seems to beg the question of "standing up" as an endeavor
in itself. As is rightly pointed out, these figures are now, by and
large, unable to "stick their heads out." Their chairs are inaccessible
(or, at best, they may knee
Well, 20 years after the Californian Ideology, at least we have three
good concpets:
-thanaticism
-the inhumanities
-the antisocial sciences
Like a good cyber-communist, I'm just gonna put 'em in my bag and use 'em.
thanks, BH
On 10/16/2015 11:36 PM, nettime's_trial_balloon wrote:
< http://
This is an intricate text with a lot of angles on the subject - not a
bad thing, since the subject in question is now 4,500 people! I want to
look behind just one sentence:
"From the beginning, served as an environment for
experimentation with the new medium and, beyond that, as a collaborati
e big difference.
On Nov 4, 2015 2:45 AM, wrote:
> On 4 Nov 2015, at 9:23 a.m., Brian Holmes
wrote:
> The crucial intervention so far has been the unprecedented
injection of some 12 trillion USD into the global monetary system by
central banks, which know very well what
n any of the passengers manage to get on deck and see
the sunlight, they immediately build a darkening cupola and start
projecting their fantasies instead of looking at anything around them.
Still hope springs eternal. So let's share our readings and our insights
and see whether artists, sof
dear nettimers, dear everyone,
You may or may not know them personally, but Sean Dockray and Marcell
Mars are at the heart of our extended community. Who's the we? Quite
simply, anyone who has desired to participate.
Knowledge was supposed to be the oil of the 21st century. Despite the
fact th
Orit Halpern's book, Beautiful Data, suggests that we live not so much
in worlds of pure simulation a la Jean Baudrillard (or Philip K. Dick),
but instead, in a fascinated relation with flows of signals whose
referential nature does not stop them from forming a "new landscape" for
the viewer/
On 02/24/2016 09:20 PM, Research Unit in Public Cultures wrote:
Transversal Cultural Spheres and the Future of Europe -- Nikos
Papastergiadis
This text is interesting but it's not getting to the heart of things.
What's missing are the core questions: racialized class, generational
time, and p
We've come full circle. Forget the Californian Ideology, forget the
Flexible Personality. At issue today is exactly the thing that Adorno
and his colleages studied in their sociological attempt to understand
Fascism. What's happening in the US right now, and undoubtedly across
Europe, is fear,
This is so true, so goddamned true, Brian.
Geert, I think you have to begin with the idea that societies across
the world are gripped by the Big Fear. It came in a lot of ways,
the economic crash, the realization of accelerating climate change,
Fukushima, Greece, the failed revolutions in Nort
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 for
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
cr
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
Nicholas Shaxson has written the so-far definitive book on tax havens,
entitled Treasure Islands (2012) - a fantastic book, I am amazed no one
seems to be talking about it right now. His central thesis is that with
the waning of Empire, British elites sought a way to retain their
disporoprtiona
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