Patrice Riemens on Wed, 7 Feb 2018 18:47:44 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: <nettime> How do we govern ourselves? (was: Mechanical Turkish) |
Aloha, On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 07:32:33AM -0600, Blake Stimson wrote: > > > The core question of a democratic society is not "how do I become free?" > > Rather it is "how do we govern ourselves?" Crucially that means: with which > > institutions, under which rules, backed by which constraints [and, I would > > add, which power]? If you do not answer these questions - as the entire > > anarcho-libertarian spectrum including myself did not, throughout the > > neoliberal period - well, then it turns out that others, like the Koch > > brothers or Cambridge Analytica, will attempt to answer it for you. > I read a nice statement in a recent Guardian op-ed attacking a Brexit supporter and funder who bought himself a Maltese (EU) passport (available very officially for £800K) just to be on the safe side. "Freedom is easy to be had, but it's just not for free". Gives a nice twist to RMS's "as in freedom, not as in free beer". Greeetz from AZERTYstan (Bruksel), p+2D! PS I seem to remember reading that Bruno Latour once started a lecture (in the UK) with the pronouncement that Margaret Thatcher was the greatest sociologist of all - he was joking oeuf corse .... # 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: