Richard Barbrook on Fri, 20 Jun 1997 01:41:19 +0200 (MET DST) |
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Re: <nettime> Declaration of the Obsolescence of Cyberhy |
Hiya, I was most amused by Alberto Gaitan's recent piece of biobabble. Don't these people ever read any history? The money-commodity economy is an incredibly recent invention. If we're going to talk about a 'natural' forms of economy, humans lived in hunter-gather and subsistence agricultural societies for many many thousands of years before capitalism emerged. Even after this event, modernity has taken many different forms around the globe. The history of humanity cannot be reduced to just that of the USA.... Later, Richard ------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Richard Barbrook Hypermedia Research Centre School of Design & Media University of Westminster Watford Road Northwick Park HARROW HA1 3TP http://www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk/ +44 (0)171-911-5000 x 4590 ------------------------------------------------------------------- "...the History of the World is nothing but the development of the Idea of Freedom." - Georg Hegel ------------------------------------------------------------------- --- # distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@icf.de and "info nettime" in the msg body # URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@icf.de