Re: Hackaton exploring the digital landscape

2016-10-16 Thread Florian Cramer
Since about half a decade, these types of events have become typical for the Netherlands and its particular flavor of creative industries. Initially, "hackathons" had little to do with hacker culture since they adopted (or even hijacked) the term hacking in a broadly metaphorical sen

Re: Hackaton exploring the digital landscape

2016-10-16 Thread seb olma
Patrice, Andreas, It’s painful to see these charades continuing but in a way, it also isn’t very surprising. There is tho, without any doubt, a strong connection between the celebration of digitally enhanced changeless change and the authoritarian ‘acceleration’ in the name of the people. I found

Re: Hackaton exploring the digital landscape

2016-10-16 Thread Patrice Riemens
On 2016-10-15 13:50, Andreas Broeckmann wrote: > Is it perhaps part of the political problem of our time > > ... that some people actually believe that it is possible to change and > repair social and political structures that have evolved over decades, > within just a brief period of time, -- if

Re: Hackaton exploring the digital landscape

2016-10-15 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
Is it perhaps part of the political problem of our time ... that some people actually believe that it is possible to change and repair social and political structures that have evolved over decades, within just a brief period of time, -- if only the collaborating "developers, hackers, artists,