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| Re: <nettime> The Coming War on General Computation |
Joshua: I was wondering if there is also a transcription of the Q&A -- since, as is often the case, that's where the rhetorical "nuance" of the presentation tends to be expressed. I believe it was there that Doctorow emphasized the *analogies* of the WAR ON DRUGS as well as the one-time practice of WITCH HUNTING to his "War on General Computing." Analogies are extremely powerful devices when you are speaking to a CROWD and, analogizing as he did, this seemed to me to be at the heart of Doctorow's "moral" argument. Mark Stahlman Brooklyn NY ------------- In a message dated 1/3/2012 7:28:09 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: The Coming War on General Computation Cory Doctorow [email protected] Presented at 28C3 https://github.com/jwise/28c3-doctorow/blob/master/transcript.md Transcribed by Joshua Wise [email protected]. This transcription attempts to be faithful to the original, but disfluencies have generally been removed (except where they appear to contribute to the text). Some words may have been mangled by the transcription; feel free to submit pull requests to correct them! # 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: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]