| Marianne van den Boomen on Sun, 19 May 2002 21:21:56 +0200 (CEST) |
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| Re: <nettime> neo-colonial rates |
Op 15-05-2002 (23:31) schreef Ivo Skoric ([email protected]): > income in Germany. So, the obvious conclusion would be that > Croats can travel less and use long-distance service more > sparingly than Germans. Which is the empirical truth. It is also true for travelling from mexico to United states, and it is problably true for all travelling and communications worldwide. The poorer a country the more expensive it is to travel outwards or to communicate outwards. This means distance isn't an objective measure, it is always depending on specific localisations. This also means that it is simply not true that the internet resolves distance. Distance is and has always been very earth bound and very political. dag dag Marianne ======================= Marianne van den Boomen [email protected] www.xs4all.nl/~boom www.groene.nl # 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: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]