Re: <nettime> Ippolita Collective: The Dark Side of Google (Conclusion)

["Patrice Riemens" <patrice@xs4all.nl>]

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> Patrice:
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> So, after all this -- it turns out that the Collective is against ..
> . masturbation                                                     .
>
> In its sharpest polemic, we learn that even the progressive
> margins of the alter-globalist movement remains "far removed of
> the sphere of individual desire, especially when they advocate
> social networking, as if it were a magic solution to all personal
> frustrations, achieved through ritual of global technological
> [auto-]solidarity"
>
> Is auto-solidarity akin to auto-eroticism?
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> For the punch line, we are told that "The profiling of the imaginary
> is but the last phase of the process of capitalist colonization of
> the networks, something we have called technological masturbation."
>
> Wow! That's pretty serious!
>
> Mark Stahlman New York City
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>

"I am but a humble labourer in the vineyard of the Lord"
- Jozeph Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI






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