QUOTE(thekohser @ Thu 29th July 2010, 12:40am)
QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Thu 29th July 2010, 12:08am)
Dork FibberQUOTE
According to media critic Geert Lovink, the Internet is being closed off by corporations and governments intent on creating a business and information environment free of dissent. Calling himself a radical media pragmatist, Lovink envisions an Internet culture that goes beyond the engineering culture that spawned it to bring humanities, user groups, social movements, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), artists, and cultural critics into the core of Internet development.
MIT Press Blurb for Dark Fiber (2002) by Geert Lovink Wow … the hypocrisy of it all. That's very telling.
It's hard for me to figure out what happened here. We're talking about a well-respected author who obviously had some sort of critical vision — once upon a time. How did he fall into such a state of irreflection that he can't see what he did?
Is is just that Jimbo's “Sub-Midas Touch†turns everything he touches to
Hypochrysy?
Is it just that Geert has staked his career on the supposition that Wikipedia is something
Wonderful And Complex And New And Radically Different (WACANARD) — when anyone who knows anything can tell it's something
Plain And Simple And Really Same Old Same Old (PASARSOSO)?
Time … Will … I … Reckon … Tell … (TWIRT) …
Jon (IMG:
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