Re: Some open questions.. some leading questions

2019-10-15 Thread Frederic Janssens
Thanks for asking! I have been thinking about these topics for many years, but have not published anything yet. As I am a very slow writer, I will start by replying just to the philosophical/epistemological questions. They provide the proper tools and perspective to answer the other questions. "

Re: On Big Data and Post-Truth

2017-01-28 Thread Frederic Janssens
On 28 January 2017 at 13:12, Prem Chandavarkar wrote: https://premckar.wordpress.com/2017/01/28/on-big-data-and-post-truth/ On Big Data and Post-Truth ... If the campaign wishes to mobilise as many of these fanatical groups as possible, it cannot afford to ar

Re: Why I won't support the March for Science

2017-04-24 Thread Frederic Janssens
On 24 April 2017 at 06:25, Prem Chandavarkar wrote: Having said that, Nagel refuses to allow the pendulum to swing to the other extreme of total relativism, one has to build on the utility of the objective viewpoint in order to make a complete life. One cannot deny

Re: Return to feudalism

2017-09-18 Thread Frederic Janssens
On 18 September 2017 at 22:28, mp wrote: > > > and from the thesis where these quotes feature: > > Interesting. Has this thesis a name, an author, and is it available ? -- Frederic # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, #

Re: Return to feudalism

2017-09-19 Thread Frederic Janssens
On 19 September 2017 at 01:39, mp wrote: > > > “Property, Commoning and the Politics of Free Software” (PhD, 2010) > > It was published here: > > http://www.commoner.org.uk/?p=107 > > And here: > > https://commoning.wordpress.com/essay/ > > Thank. I'm reading it. Will comment later. -- Frede

Re: The System Development Corporation

2018-03-13 Thread Frederic Janssens
I mostly agree, apart from antiquity of speech. The more we go, the older it gets. See for instance : https://cosmosmagazine.com/palaeontology/bones-of-stone-age-boy-challenge-single-origin-theory-of-modern-humans "Bones of Stone Age boy challenge single-origin theory of modern humans. DNA analys

Re: The System Development Corporation

2018-03-13 Thread Frederic Janssens
I mostly agree, apart from the antiquity of speech. The more we go, the older it gets. See for instance : https://cosmosmagazine.com/palaeontology/bones-of-stone- age-boy-challenge-single-origin-theory-of-modern-humans "Bones of Stone Age boy challenge single-origin theory of modern humans. DNA

Re: New Inclusive English

2023-03-04 Thread Frederic Janssens
Yes to "I find the link with Protestant ethics, a spiral of purity, an interesting angle." I will take an historically well known episode of that ethic : prohibition. I not consume much alcohol. I mostly hate the effect it has on the attitude of people beyond a quite low threshold. But I think mos

Re: The Limping Messenger: Warrior President Sarkozy proves it: “A friendship bought will be betrayed.”

2012-04-29 Thread Frederic Janssens
Mediapart has just published a document signed by Moussa Koussa proving the ?50 million ($65.8 million) illegal campaign contribution : http://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/280412/sarkozy-kadhafi-la-preuve-du-financement On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 16:35, Tjebbe van Tijen wrote: > Warrior P

Re: C(APITAL|OMMUN)ISM (i|ha)s (ARRIV|FINISH)ED

2012-05-29 Thread Frederic Janssens
nstraints it could enable much more subtle, and insidious, forms of 'thought control' and manipulation; for commercial and/or state purposes. At present, neither states nor corporations (cf. facebook) seem ready to voluntary submit themselves to strong deontological constraints. So I a

Re: Post-digital - Mindful Disconnection: Counterpowering the Panopticon from the Inside (with Howard Rheingold)

2014-03-11 Thread Frederic Janssens
I mainly agree. The realistic take has always been and should always be: Whatever > technology and/or social process that can be used to strengthen > the interests of strategic power, will be used to strengthen the > interests of strategic power. > > Is a very apt description of what is the main

Re: More Crisis in the Information Society

2014-07-21 Thread Frederic Janssens
On 21 July 2014 08:23, d.garcia wrote: > What has changed is that the conditions long endured in the arts > have now been extended to the economy as a whole where employees of > an increasingly freelance, largely non-unionised economy are all > required to be entrepreneurs in the creative economy

Re: "Greece Brought a Latte to a Gunfight"

2015-07-13 Thread Frederic Janssens
On 13 July 2015 at 19:47, t byfield wrote: I suppose Tsipras and Varoufakis can be criticized for the divide between their words and their actions -- in particular, for playing chicken with a Grexit but without preparing. But how exactly could they have prepared? how it

Re: "And to the others, what would you say, Monsieur Ramadan?"

2016-01-06 Thread Frederic Janssens
Slower translations of some of the sentences, a question, and a statement. Votre idée du malheur ? Perdre le sens et voir mourir. would be : Your idea of unhappiness? "To loose the feel of meaningfulness and to see dying". instead of : your idea of misfortune? "To loose sen

Re: notes from the DIEM25 launch

2016-02-14 Thread Frederic Janssens
Some comments and proposals. (I only followed the live-stream.) Geert Lovink 12 February 2016 at 21:33 >"The real challenge DIEM has to tackle is the question of organization. >It is called a movement, but is it really? Someone mentioned that one >cannot "found" a movement.