| Paolo Ruffino on Sat, 17 Oct 2015 16:46:19 +0200 (CEST) |
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| Re: <nettime> 20 years Californian Ideology! |
Perfect timing! I just gave a lecture on the Californian Ideology at University of York this week, as part of the module where I teach, 'Interactive Media and Society'. I will certainly forward this publication to my students. Other interesting historical coincidences, that I offered to my students as further food for thought: the 'Think Different' campaign by Apple was conceived around 1997, not long after the publication of Barbrook and Cameron essay. That campaign reinforced and popularised the idea that computers are not just tools but liberating machines (and that freedom was a commodity that Apple could sell). 1997 is also the year when Wired published 'The Long Boom' editorial (available at http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/5.07/longboom.html). And that also replicated the mantra of the Californian Ideology in quite explicit terms: technologies will make the world a better place, if we let the Silicon Valley work by itself. I also proposed to the students to look at how the Burning Man festival changed in the last years. From the original idea of the San Francisco Cacophony Society, strongly inspired by the concept of the Temporary Autonomous Zone, the festival later evolved in a party for the rich CEOs of the Silicon Valley, where freedom can only be guaranteed at the cost of others' liberty and exploitation (this article puts it quite well: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/08/burning-man-one-percent-silicon-valley-tech/). But the ideology is not contradicted, it is still perfectly consistent with the original formulation as it was in Jefferson's conception of freedom. What is Larry Page's dream of 'setting aside part of the world for unregulated experimentation', if not the dream of TAZ and Burning Man? http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/15/4334356/larry-page-wants-to-set-aside-a-part-of-the-world-for-experimentation Thanks again for taking care of this publication, it is very much needed. On 16 October 2015 at 18:18, Speakeasy <[email protected]> wrote: > I love you guys! > > Please respond to [email protected] > > >> On Oct 16, 2015, at 7:28 AM, Geert Lovink <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/no-10-the-internet-revolution-from-dot-com-capitalism-to-cybernetica-communism-by-richard-barbrook-with-andy-cameron/ >> >> Dear nettimers, >> >> we're proud to present the 20th anniversary edition of the nettime >> classic The Californian Ideology. > <...> <...> -- paolo ruffino http://paoloruffino.com # 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]