Re: <nettime> VW

[Andreas Broeckmann <ab@mikro.in-berlin.de>]

Am 27.09.15 um 23:09 schrieb Florian Cramer:

>     WWII. As far as I know, all profits that the state of Lower Saxony
>     makes from its remaining 20% share go into the endowment. And, Leuphana
>     is a state university of Lower Saxony.

(marginalia)

folks, i think this is besides the point, but before assumptions about 
the amounts of funding by the VolkswagenStiftung to Leuphana and its 
Centre for Digital Cultures get completely out of hand, i suggest that 
whoever wants to make claims about that should first do the research, 
e.g. here:

https://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/en/funding/funding-statistics.html

... probably to find that less than 20% (just a guess) of the funding 
for the CDC in the last 3 years (it has not existed longer) came from 
VolkswagenStiftung (more from EU-EFRE, same from DFG; besides, formally, 
Leuphana is also not a state university but a foundation, but since it 
is basically treated like a public university, that's probably a 
legalistic detail).

the german mass media are playing the game of "who knew what when" this 
morning.

personally, i am looking at the case mostly from the perspective of my 
small collection of software-induced fuck-ups, accidents, frauds, etc., 
which begin to pile up into a relief picture of the vulnerability of 
both the technical and social (belief) systems that our glorious 
"digitised culture" is relying on.

regards,
-a


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