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.
"
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
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
On 18 September 2017 at 22:28, mp wrote:
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> and from the thesis where these quotes feature:
>
> Interesting. Has this thesis a name, an author, and is it available ?
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On 19 September 2017 at 01:39, mp wrote:
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> “Property, Commoning and the Politics of Free Software” (PhD, 2010)
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> It was published here:
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> http://www.commoner.org.uk/?p=107
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> And here:
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> https://commoning.wordpress.com/essay/
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> Thank. I'm reading it. Will comment later.
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Frede
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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