Patrice Riemens on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 18:53:24 +0200 (CEST) |
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Re: <nettime> ICT&S Researchers: Towards Critical Internet Theory |
The passage into official (social) science of concepts and ideas developed at the grass root level by free/independent/non-institutional(ised) thinkers is going to dodge us till Judgement Day (will come sooner than you want to believe ;-), complete with attribution to themselves of these very ideas and concepts (see by whom now the term 'Internet gift economy' was 'coined' in Geert's original post). I am trying to live with it. What is difficult however, is to suffer the bottomless despise displayed by the same circles towards the originators, refered to as 'informants' at best, but usiually as little better than clueless, and despiceable, diletantes. On another 9but the same) plane, there was in the Wall Street Journal's last week-end edition (20-23 sept) a fantastic op-ed by a German columnist from Die Zeit in which Al Quaeda and the counter-globalisation movement were 'theoretised'into basically one and the same thing. After reading it, the state prosecutor who had Alej H. helicopetered all the way from Berlin to Karlsruhe on accusation of furnishing the intellectual instruments to terrorist groups ('gentrification', 'globalisation' etc.) appeared somewhat more understandable, if not less brain-damaged. Now I couldn't find the article on-line, since the WSJE archives is for subscribers only. If anyone has access, please forward it to the list. It's really enlightning - in a perverse sense - reading. Cheers from Groningen, patrizio and Diiiinooos! Ceterum censeo: all should read Brian's absolutely fantastic FutureMap piece (http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/2007/09/09/future-map/)!!! # 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: majordomo@kein.org and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org