| K E N O on Thu, 1 Nov 2018 11:14:16 +0100 (CET) |
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| Re: <nettime> Interview with Richard Stallman in New Left Review (September-October 2018) |
Don’t we have to think about more sustainable ways to produce hardware? There’s – of course – Heidegger viewing technology as the destruction of nature. Even if we wanted, could we stop using and producing hardware? I think it’s hard to condemn free software because of *evil* hardware. We rather need to get rid of cyber-utopian ideologies wanting to free the world through technology. Free software is rather a social phenomenon than a technical. I hope there will be more open hardware movements and Repair Cafés fighting towards more a more sustainable economy in general. As often, I think it’s a systemic problem. K E N O > Am 01.11.2018 um 10:56 schrieb mp <[email protected]>: > > > > On 01/11/2018 08:00, Carsten Agger wrote: >> So yes: Software should be available free of charge - and, on the other >> hand, those who can should take part in its funding, because with no >> funding it won't happen. > > Software can only be used if you have access to hardware. > > Hardware can - at least so far, it seems - only be produced if land is > grabbed, trees are cut, rivers are dammed, mountains are mined and > valleys are made highways and so on. Not to mention disposing of it > again (think underage children disassembling toxic stuff). > > That is the first and biggest price of software (use): labour, minerals > and other materials, and energy: _pollution_ > > And those who mostly pay that price do often not give a fuck about > software: they'd rather live in a world without it, a world of trees and > bees. > > James Scott writes about peasant uprising that one of the first points > of attacks commonly are the offices of documentation/paper holding > bureaucracies: there where power is preserved and managed. That, today, > would be server farms, I suppose. > > So, should we really fight to get 'free' software (when it actually > entails destruction and let's be honest, in great part serves to satisfy > our own screen addictions and brain candy obsessions, or, as they call > it, intellectual pursuits)? > # 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] > # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: # 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] # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: