Dear all,
the Yugo-mentions are spot-on but let me note that, like so many times
before, Trump's tactics are straight out of Berlusconi's playbook -- on
amphetamine, of course. Berlusconi never accepted the results of the
Italian 2006 elections, his second major defeat. Like in the US, the
el
Hello, my two cents from Canada and with an eye on my old country Italy.
While I share some of Brian's and Molly's hopes about the fall of the
Republican party, I would not write Trump out just yet. He may very well
manage to turn this hospitalization in his favour. Like for other
contemporary
Interesting points, but I believe that the relation between data and
labour go in a further direction too. Data are of course used to feed
the algorithms that organize work in the warehouse (i.e. choose the task
that a “picker” will need to perform, and direct them through the
barcode gun they
Hello all, thanks for a great discussion in these obscure times.
I wonder what the role of Silicon Valley will be in the next years. I
don't strictly mean the communicative role of their platforms but rather
the possible overall reaction by an industry that is the poster child of
globalization
Well, we are most certainly not sympathetic with processes of co-option
that transform oppositional cultures and integrate them into
capitalism's evolution
The word "Recuperation" has been used to describe such processes--we may
decide we want to use a better term but I believe the core issue i
Hi all,
Johan Soderberg and I are writing this paper titled "Repurposing the
hacker. Three temporalities of recuperation". We do adopt a deeper
historical framework while trying to understand how hacking has been
hacked, and try to answer a more general question on how to
analyze/avoid what Br
Hi Michael,
that's quite an interesting take on biohacking.
People who have witnessed the emergence of DIYbio (the do-it-yourself
biology network that was started back in 2008 in the US) say that the
direct intervention of the FBI was key in shaping the movement. The FBI
attended DIYbio meetin
hacker politics
are framed.
The special issue is curated by Alessandro Delfanti and Johan
Söderberg. It includes four research papers and two invited comments:
Denisa Kera, Hackerspaces and DIYbio in Asia: Connecting Science and
Community with Open Data, Kits and Protocols
Maxigas, Hacklabs
