[ Reflections ]
by Jeebesh Bagchi
@ 16.04.2006 02:49 CEST
Over the last years, a lot of discussion has happened around information, new technologies and social deployment - together assuming a narrative of information ecology. The North is supposed to be info rich and South info poor. The term 'digital divide' becomes a self evident term.
[ Reflections ]
by Jeebesh Bagchi
@ 16.04.2006 02:11 CEST
On the one hand contemporary reality is of increasing brutalities. Rising counts of suicides, dislocations, and evictions. On the other, these
images (and
here). I would think that slowly a new way of 'being' in highly un-equal social realities and arrangements is taking shape. A new psychological profile is emerging. Also, we are witnessing a dismantling of some earlier held assumptions.
[ Reflections ]
by Jeebesh Bagchi
@ 16.04.2006 01:57 CEST
Recently we were part of the Leonardo/SFAI Digital Salon where we spoke of "The Strange Destiny of Open Source in the Nation State" and Steve Cisler talked of Piracy.
Some thoughts that have arisen after the quite impassioned discussion that evening around piracy, how it is constituted and how to think it beyond a simple anxiety of the loss of property:
