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The Open Source Initiative | Open Source Initiative. THE HOLY FOOLS (MUTE MIX) by Richard Barbrook | Imaginary Futures. Author: Richard Barbrook The Lost Utopia The Net is haunted by the disappointed hopes of the Sixties. Because this new technology symbolises another period of rapid change, many contemporary commentators look back to the stalled revolution of thirty years ago to explain what is happening now. Most famously, the founders of Wired appropriated New Left rhetoric to promote their New Right policies for the Net. [2] Within Europe, a long history of class-based politics and compulsive theorising makes such ideological chicanery seem much more implausible.

However, this does not mean that Europeans are immune from embracing digital elitism in the name of Sixties libertarianism. Although these two philosophers were overt leftists during their lifetimes, many of their contemporary followers support a form of aristocratic anarchism which is eerily similar to Californian neo-liberalism. The cult of Deleuze and Guattari is a prime example of this aesthetisation of Sixties radicalism. New NSA documents reveal massive data collection from mobile apps. Recently leaked NSA documents have shed a new light on the agency's assault on the data leaked by smartphone apps. By targeting the app configuration data, the NSA and GCHQ are able to pull data ranging from general characteristics like age and ethnicity to specific location based on GPS.

The documents outline multiple tactics for unearthing this data, including a direct tap on app configuration data and information sent to ad networks. Using app data permissions as a jumping off point, the NSA is able to obtain any data advertisers have access to, plotting data collected in this manner against the Marina database of web-based metadata. The documents point out Angry Birds as an example of an ad-supported app that sends potentially useful data to ad networks, allowing the NSA to grab the data in transit. "intercepting Google Maps queries made on smartphones" More advanced capabilities were also on display from the agency's targeted malware program. Digital Communism. Skip to comments. Digital Communism National Review ^ | 5/6/2003 | James D.

Miller Posted on Tue May 6 21:28:28 2003 by traditionalist Internet file-trading tools, a California court handed a major victory to communism. The Internet allows the well-wired to take copyrighted material freely. Technology will soon increase the ease of copyright theft because as broadband access proliferates, more people will be able to download pirated movies and music quickly. The best hope to stop copyright piracy lies in stopping the distribution of peer-to-peer networks that facilitate such theft. Some have claimed that Internet piracy simply represents another form of competition and all copyright holders need do to compete successfully is to lower prices. The ability to exclude is the essence of property rights.

Is it necessarily bad if piracy destroys intellectual property rights? The twentieth century witnessed a brutal competition between communism and capitalism. True culture is seldom profitable. Radical Plural Democracy and the Internet. Radical Plural Democracy and the Internet Professor Margaret Chon, Seattle University School of Law The Internet is often celebrated as a new social space in which significant social attributes such as sex or race are muted or even non-existent.

The lack of fixed social identities or political/juridical borders is often cited as evidence of a social freedom that is greater than that existing in "real" space. Yet, the economy of international dating, sexual and marriage services on the Internet, for example, is undeniably linked to existing inequities by sex, race and other material markers. Facilitated tremendously by networked digital technologies, these services give lie to the truism that "on the Internet, no one knows you're a dog. " I'd like to begin by relating a couple of "war stories" from the classroom. Just a year ago, I attempted to teach a seminar class on gender and cyberspace. Another story unfolded just last week. Radical Democracy and the Internet: Interrogating Theory and Practice | Lincoln Dahlberg. Introduction: Tracing RadicalDemocracy and the Internet Lincoln Dahlberg and Eugenia Siapera Democracy, mass media, and the Internet ‘Democracy’ has become a universal signifier of political legitimacy.

Nomajor political programme or regime wants to be labelled undemocratic.However, the success of this signifier has far exceeded the success of actual democratic practice. Political systems throughout the world,including really existing democratic systems, are plagued by corruption,non-transparent decision-making processes, hierarchical power distribu-tion, corporate influence over government and information flows, cyni-cal public relations and consultation exercises, capitalist globalization,neo-imperialist coercion, and reactionary fundamentalisms.

Will the global NSA backlash break the internet? The NSA's ongoing surveillance has spurred many governments to pursue stronger data-protection laws, but there are growing concerns that this backlash could divide the internet along national borders, threatening the principles of openness and fluidity that it was founded upon. In September, Brazil announced plans to build a fiber-optic cable that would route internet traffic away from US servers, theoretically keeping its citizens’ data away from the NSA. The policy has yet to be implemented, and many question whether it will actually be effective, but others appear to be following Brazil’s lead. In Germany, telecommunications companies are working to create encrypted email and internet services that would keep user data within the country's borders, and Switzerland's Swisscom has begun building a domestic cloud-service to attract companies that may have grown leery of American spying. "there are very different types of power, and it's not distributed equally.

" "E-Mail made in Germany" Can We All Just Admit Google Is An Evil Empire? ⚙ Co. Google is kicking off 2014 with some good old-fashioned privacy infringement. The search giant’s recent decision to link Gmail addresses to Google+ was met with considerable backlash among users who don't want their inboxes exposed to spam. But according to former Tumblr lead developer Marco Arment on his blog, we really shouldn’t be surprised at all: To be clear, for anyone who thinks Google is some benevolent, selfless entity handing out free services to everyone out of the goodness of its heart: Google’s leadership, threatened by the attention and advertising relevance of Facebook, is betting the company on Google+ at all costs.

To that end, writes Arment, Google will do anything up to and including angering the users of its core products and services if that meant propping up Google+ against Facebook’s overwhelming dominance. In a 2012 article for TechCrunch, writer Josh Constine argued that Google stopped caring about whether or not people used Google+ fairly early on.

The Digital Surplus and Its Enemies. With the advent of Web 2.0, the Internet has begun to take on the characteristics of what the Italian autonomists like Paolo Virno called the social factory. The idea is that since many of us no longer have all that much to offer society, in terms of operating machinery or that sort of thing, the new way of extracting surplus value from our “labor” is to turn our social lives into a kind of covert work that we complete throughout the day, but in forms that can be co-opted by capitalist firms. Work processes, as Virno explains in A Grammar of the Multitude [Semiotext(e); 2004], become diverse, but social life begins to homogenize itself in the sense that our identity becomes something we all must prove in the public sphere—we all become concerned with the self as brand.

This plays out in seemingly innocuous ways. It can be a matter of hyping a product free of charge but using it or talking about it. How worried should we be about this? Humans are free. Magazine. Mute Vol. 3, No. 4 - Slave to the Algorithm Buy on Amazon US $9.99 | UK £9.99 | DE €9.99 and other regions, Super Saving free shipping. As the financial crisis fastens its grip ever tighter around the means of human and natural survival, the age of the algorithm has hit full stride. This phase-shift has been a long time coming of course, and was undoubtedly as much a cause of the crisis as its effect, with self-propelling algorithmic power replacing human labour and judgement and creating event fields far below the threshold of human perception and responsiveness. But, as the articles in this issue by Alberto Toscano, Bogdan Dragos & Inigo Wilkins, and Benedict Seymour relate, the adoption of algorithmic tools begun by financial traders in the 1990s has expanded exponentially since 2008 in response to the intensified profits crisis as much as the maturation of tools.

Artists are likewise provoked by the compulsive effects of automation upon the visual realm. Mute Vol 2, No. 0 − Precarious Reader. Cheap Chinese John Barker on the perilous and exploitative employment of economic migrants essential to capitalist productivity today The Insecurity Lasts a Long Time Anthony Iles reviews online magazine Republicart's issue on precarious labour Precarious Straits Marina Vishmidt on the dubious equation of artists with other forms of insecure (service) workers Precarity and N/european Identity An interview with Alex Foti of ChainWorkers by Merijn Oudenampsen and Gavin Sullivan Is Precarity Enough? Before the precariat came the mass worker. Precarious, Precarisation, Precariat? Impacts, traps and challenges of a complex term and its relationship to migration. Marx and Makhno Meet McDonalds What does 'precarious' struggle look like in practice?

Disobbedienti, Ciao Hydrachrist on the death of the Italian Disobbedienti and the rise of the precariat Wages for Anyone is Bad for Business Call to Arms Kolinko present some of the findings from their workers' enquiry into call centre work Illustrations 104 pages. Facebook 'dead and buried to teens', research finds | Technology. Facebook is 'dead and buried' to older teenagers, an extensive European study has found, as the key age group moves on to Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp and Snapchat. Researching the Facebook use of 16-18 year olds in eight EU countries, the Global Social Media Impact Study found that as parents and older users saturate Facebook, its younger users are shifting to alternative platforms. "Facebook is not just on the slide - it is basically dead and buried," wrote Daniel Miller, lead anthropologist on the research team, who is professor of material culture of University College London.

"Mostly they feel embarrassed to even be associated with it. Where once parents worried about their children joining Facebook, the children now say it is their family that insists they stay there to post about their lives. " "What appears to be the most seminal moment in a young person’s decision to leave Facebook was surely that dreaded day your mum sends you a friend request," wrote Miller. MyBrain.net - Geert Lovink The colonization of real-time and other trends in Web 2.0. The neurological turn in recent web criticism exploits "the obsession with anything related to the mind, brain and consciousness".

Geert Lovink turns the discussion to the politics of network architecture, exploring connections between the colonization of real-time and the rise of the national web. "Sociality is the capacity of being several things at once. " G. H. Mead Web 2.0 has three distinguishing features: it is easy to use; it facilitates the social element; and users can upload their own content in whatever form, be it pictures, videos or text. It is all about providing users with free publishing and production platforms. During the post-9/11 reconstruction period, Silicon Valley found renewed inspiration in two projects: the vital energy of the search start-up Google (which successfully managed to postpone its IPO for years), and the rapidly emerging blog scene, which gathered around self-publishing platforms such as blogger.com, Blogspot and LiveJournal. Take Google Wave. Chapter 9. Victory. Reed, John. 1922. Ten Days That Shook the World.

Watch Alain Badiou Explain Money. Culture and admin. Béatrice Hibou, La bureaucratisation du monde à l’ère néolibérale, La Découverte, Paris, 2012. 223 pp., €17.00 pb., 978 2 70717 439 0. Ben Kafka, The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of Paperwork, Zone Books, New York, 2012. 182 pp., £19.95 hb., 978 1 93540 826 0. The ascendancy of neoliberalism was accompanied by all sorts of mendacious advertising for the rollback of the state. Bureaucracy became a byword for everything oppressive, rigid and inefficient about the planner-state, everything that marketization promised to dissolve into supple flows and individual solutions.

The opposition of market and state is so entrenched that awareness of the grotesquely bureaucratic character of neoliberal capital still has some difficulty in making inroads into our common sense. Yet our everyday life is in many ways permeated by procedures, interactions and interfaces that are demonstrably bureaucratic, by what Béatrice Hibou captures as a ‘normative inflation’. RSA Animate - The Internet in Society: Empowering or Censoring Citizens? Slavoj Zizek - A New Kind of Communism. Digital Labor: The Internet as Playground and Factory: Amazon.co.uk: Trebor Scholz. For those interested in the theorization and operations of the Internet in the age of the "Web 2.0" hallucination, this volume is required reading. The book came from the 2009 "Internet as Playground and Factory" conference at the New School. As an attendee of the conference I can attest it was a fantastic event.

Scholz asks, "What does it mean to be a digital worker today? " The answers are varied, complex, and subtle. These systems, including the one where you now read this review, and amplified in systems like Facebook, are where involvement with them is a site of value creation. The book is divided into four parts: Part I, the Shifting of Labor Markets; Part II, Interrogating Modes of Digital Labor; Part III, the Violence of Participation; Part IV, Organizing Networks in an Age of Vulnerable Publics. In part I, this labour is amply discussed in essays by Andrew Ross and Tiziana Terranova. Digital Labour concludes in Part IV, bringing theory and vision together. Read This Book. Labor" schulz download&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CEwQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.triple-c.at%2Findex.php%2FtripleC%2Farticle%2Fdownload%2F277%2F368&ei=CMk4UomfEMiqhQfUk4DgAw&usg=AFQjCNHNxM-DCeeuy1V5VMl-nZzoZ.

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