Christian Fuchs on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 04:44:50 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: <nettime> "Googlex distorts reality" |
chad scov1lle schrieb: > "Moreover, Maurer was worried that Google could use its "almost > universal" knowledge of what was happening in the world to play global stock > markets to its advantage." <...> on the one hand i think that maurer is right in point out that google's monopoly is dangerous. on the other hand someone who has once heard maurer talk in person knows that he is a bourgeois luddite who doesn't see capitalism as the cause of such problems, but the internet as such. he is a computer scientist who comments on sociological phenomena without any critical consciousness, he does so with the instrumental techno-deterministic mind (which in my opinion is the germform of fascism, adorno and horkheimer will agree) of a typical computer scientist. his simple techno-pessimistic comments are dispensable and overall he is more a showman who is trying to stage himself and i personally completely disagree with what this guy is doing because there it is not at all critical of capitalism. the passge in capital by marx where he argues about the narrowmindedness of bourgeois luddites pretty good characterizes maurer. awful! cheers, christian -- _____________________________ Univ.Ass. Dr. Christian Fuchs Assistant Professor for Internet and Society ICT&S Center - Advanced Studies and Research in Information and Communication Technologies & Society http://www.icts.uni-salzburg.at University of Salzburg Sigmund Haffner Gasse 18 5020 Salzburg Austria christian.fuchs@sbg.ac.at Phone +43 662 8044 4823 Fax +43 662 6389 4800 Information-Society-Technology: http://fuchs.icts.sbg.ac.at http://www.icts.uni-salzburg.at/fuchs/ Managing Editor of tripleC - peer reviewed open access online journal for the foundations of information science: http://triplec.uti.at New Book: Fuchs, Christian. 2008. Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age. New York: Routledge. 408 Pages. http://fuchs.icts.sbg.ac.at/i&s.html http://www.routledge.com/shopping_cart/products/product_detail.asp?sku=&isbn=9780415961325&pc= PETITION: http://www.austria4arigona.at # 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://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org