In his March 16, 2013 opinion column on CNN.com, Bruce Schneier called the Internet a “surveillance state”. In the piece, Schneier complains that the Internet now serves as a platform which enables massive and pervasive surveillance by the State. State sponsored and ordained surveillance, however, is not synonymous with the Internet. Schneier’s use of the […]
This Thursday, Andrew Boyd{1} will be in town for the Berlin launch of Beautiful Trouble{2}, something of an “An encyclopedia for creative activism” as described by Sandra Cuff, of the Vancouver Media Co-op. As a contributor, I will join Andrew for the launch. Please come and join us. My contributions to the book where on […]
Last month was a long and busy month that started in Canada and ended in South Africa. Along the way, SecuShare’s {1} Daniel Reusche and I agitated for decentralized social platfors at Berlin’s Campus Party {2}, I presented the first Octo demo {3} at the latest reSource transmedial culture {4} event with Jeff Mann, Jonas […]
Tomorrow I head to Linz, Austria to participate in LiWoLi 2012. LiWoLi: 24-26 May 2012Location: I/O Stadtwerkstatt, Kirchengasse, Linz, Austria LiWoLi is a community festival, open lab and annual meeting spot for artists, educators and developers using and creating Free Software (FLOSS), Open Hardware and Open Design in the artistic and cultural context. This event […]
Last week I wrote about one of the topics Jacob Appelbaum and I discussed at our talk at Re:publica 2012 {1}; that as a result of the commercialization of the Internet, we have moved from free and open social platform, to the centralized social media monopolies we know today. Today I want to mention another […]
Privacy, Moglen, @ioerror, #rp12 I gave a talk with Jacob Applebaum at last week’s Re:publica conference in Berlin. It seems it had fallen to us to break a little bad news. Here it is. – We are not progressing from a primitive era of centralized social media to an emerging era of decentralized social media, […]
Y o u a r e c o r d i a l l y i n v i t e d t o t h e : ————————————————– Art & Economics Group comeback at West Germany, Berlin hosted by Gitte Bohr Quarterly Forum 2012, Q2 Presented by: Tanja Ostojic / David Rych / Dmytri […]
In continuation from the last two essays looking at the macroeconomics of class struggle (#1) (#2) we will try to describe the process of revolution within the framework as developed so far. The old acrimonious accusations between so-called “Reformist” and so-called “Revolutionary” positions are counter productive. The reformist strives to improve certain conditions within […]
Travels have kept me from posting a new article here in quite a while, however despite the long break, I’d none the less like continue the train of thought from the last article, “It’s The Macroeconomy, Stupid.” [1] In that article, I start by explaining that a macroeconomic identity, as an accounting identity, is an […]
Illustration: Jonas Frankki I’ve been thinking a lot recently about macroeconomic identities. An accounting identity is an equality that must be true, no matter what the values of its variables are. Macroeconomics has many such identities. For instance, Y = P + W. Meaning total income (Y) is equal to profits (P) plus wages (W). As […]
