| seb olma on Sun, 16 Oct 2016 18:42:49 +0200 (CEST) |
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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 this image a few days ago. The sentence right in the middle could have been taken out of a Clay Shirkey book circa 2005. Or, if you replace ‘Twitter’ with ‘Blockchain’ it could even jump right out of a recent nettime discussion. Just saying…. Best, Seb - - Sebastian Olma Professor for Autonomy in Art, Design & Technology Centre for Art & Design Avans Hogeschool | Avans University of Applied Sciences 4800 RA Breda | avans.nl tel. +31 657334184 | skype. sebolma | twitter. @sebastianolma Out in November: In Defence of Serendipity <http://repeaterbooks.com/books/in-defence-of-serendipity-sebastian-olma/> with a preface by Mark Fisher <http://repeaterbooks.com/extracts/the-great-digital-swindle/> > On Oct 15, 2016, at 1:50 PM, Andreas Broeckmann <ab@mikro.in-berlin.de> 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 only the collaborating > "developers, hackers, artists, designers, psychologists, marketeers" > have the right ideas and enough Club Mate to, for instance, "Redesign > the Netherlands in 48 hours"? > > ... and that the loud-mouthed can then publically demand such changes, > even against all democratic structures and their, at times, healthy > latency, and against political reason... > > ... and that, as can be observed for instance in Hungary and Poland, a > whole country and its carefully constructed post-dictatorship structures > can actually be "redesigned", if not in 48 hours, but then in 48 months. > (And the "designers" here are not the happy precariate, but right-wing > populists and thugs with their own "psychologists and marketeers".) > > ruminating on a saturday morning, > -a > > > ps: are the new designers of submission, Orban, Kaczyński, and their > ilk, accelerationists? > > > Am 13.10.16 um 15:42 schrieb renepare: > >> "Redesign the Netherlands in 48 hours " > >> >> Develop new applications to achieve and maintain a safe, healthy and social >> environment. >> >> Technology, data, IT and media can help to realize much of the goals of the >> new Dutch "Environmental Planning Act" (one law for the total physical >> environment): >> >> ● Residents gain more influence over their own environment >> ● Governments, businesses and citizens work together for a (better) >> design of the surroundings >> >> Will you join forces with other developers, hackers, artists, designers, >> psychologists, marketeers to make a leap forward with new technology? > >> To work on a Netherlands more pleasant and livable all together? > >> Join the Hackathon by reading the program and register via: >> >> http://country.hack.nl/ >> >> You will be able to work with experts and data from the Province of North >> Brabant, Municipality of Eindhoven and DataLand. With ICT you can explore >> the specific challenges or develop your own concept. >> >> The event is part of Dutch Design Week, and will draw attention from press >> and government innovators. A follow up with partners involved in this >> program is encouraged. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> nettime-ann mailing list >> nettime-ann@nettime.org >> http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann <...> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: