Re: <nettime> The army of love vs the army of software

[John Hopkins <jhopkins@neoscenes.net>]

> I think two much more interesting (but less romantic and actionist)
> line of attack would be to prevent the financial sector from luring
> and capturing the best brains in computer science, a.o.t. by way of
> exorbitant remunerations. An another would be to firmly put a cap
> on the sphere of accountancy, which in the last thirty years, has
> managed to invade both minds and processes, not only in finance, but
> in society at large, so that the Cult of Mamon has for all practical
> purposes been replaced by the Cult of the Number, whose beginning
> and end, as we all know, is Zero.

Easiest way to implement the collapse of the finance sector (and
likely most functions of the nation-state) is to stop placing ones
trust in abstracted fiscal instruments (i.e. MONEY) -- when you do
this, BINGO! the whole abstract facade falls down...

jh


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