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18.09.2010
The a-synchronicity of electronic mail to a complete stranger strips out all requirement of social obligation and, in turn, relies only on content to motivate the receiver in their response. In other words, when using text based communication -- with a person whom you have never met -- that person is not socially obligated to respond to you: they can easily delete your message, toss your letter i…
05.09.2010
22.08.2010
11th September 1973 was the day Augusto Pinochet lead dramatic overthrow of the democratically elected Marxist government. More than ten thousand so called demolish citizens were gathered on the national stadium in Santiago, where many of them were publicly killed. In that time, Chile saw women as politically passive and eliminated. Dictatorship prevented women political participation outside the…
19.08.2010
Here is a interesting look in to the life of our real social networks. On-line and off line.
16.08.2010
Just got an email from Richard Barbrook- whose fantastic "The High-Tech Gift Economy" text is going to be published in our Memefest reader this November.
He is working on this fantastic project. Here is a description and the first part of the movie:
“In the early-1970s, Debord created his film adaptation of The Society of the Spectacle by splicing together clips taken from other people’s…