lotu5 on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:13:24 +0200 (CEST) |
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Re: <nettime> ICT&S Researchers: Towards Critical Internet Theory |
Brian Holmes wrote: > Thanks Geert, this post is extremely interesting because it shows how > we, acting basically as a grassroots avant-garde network (yup, that's > how it is), created behaviors and ideas in the late 1990s and early > years of this decade which are now being made into official sociology. but aren't a bunch of us working in academia, just in different areas than sociology? is that still co-optation of the ideas from the streets and the jungles? where's the line between articulation and co-optation? aren't we all co-opting other philosophers and artists anyway, like deleuze, zizek, plato, kaprow, debord, and making their ideas ours, with just a little tweaking? wasn't deleuze just co-opting spinoza, nietzsche, reimann geometry and differential equations? about co-optation, there's cnn's new I report. have you seen it? people can send them video footage of news events and they play it on cnn. it's a kind of "citizen journalism" (a totally shitty term that privileges citizens) or "participatory media". the nastiest part about it, that really shows the co-optation of social movements for independent media, is that the logo is a lower case i. so in the upper right hand corner of any footage send in, cnn puts their logo i with the word "report" below it, like "i report". its just missing the ((())) from indymedia's logo. totally crazy. i saw it in the airport. -- blog: http://deletetheborder.org/lotu5 gpg: 0x5B459C11 // encrypted email preferred gaim/skype: djlotu5 // off the record messaging preferred # 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