[NetBehaviour] Iteracy And The Digital Humanities

[Andreas Maria Jacobs]

Hi Salvatore and list

thanks for your remarks

for further reading questioning the subject of 'Digital Humanities' and its ties with current political thinking I recommend reading the following article from Matteo Pasquinelli:


http://matteopasquinelli.com/docs/Pasquinelli_Machinic_Capitalism.pdf

(from nettime list 15 october 2011)

Although a little bit sprinkled with Marxistic dogmatics, well worth reading especially chapter 8:

"Digital code is machinic"

ciao

Andreas


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On 14 okt. 2011, at 08:36, "xDxD.vs.xDxD" <xdxd.vs.xdxd at gmail.com> wrote:

> hello there!
> 
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Helen Sloan <helen at scansite.org> wrote:
> 
> At the end of it we need to understand what we are up against. 
> 
> actually this sentence says it all.
> 
> once we were talking with Richard Barbrook about technologies and hacking and programming and how it changed lives and possibilities etc and he said something like "penicillin is the most important technology, not the internet" (not the exact words, but just about it).
> 
> and we all went mute.
> 
> and that's just about all there is to it: we are up against nothing, we're up against ourselves and our own lifestyle and the things we take for granted
> 
> "programming" is the tip of the iceberg  
> 
> we're just schizophrenics who live a life doing things which we don't want to know about, as if we knew more we would go crazy.
> 
> 1 tshirt = 2 dead people
> 1 light switched turned on = iceberg melts
> 1 payment with credit card = 1 national economy drops
> 1 iPhone = 20 people dead in a mine and 2 suicides in factory
> 1 "i like" on facebook = 500 lines added to corporate database
> 
> it's all the same
> 
> we can start from programming, but we really need to assess the necessity of a full scale "1 meter revolution" all around us
> 
> my 2 bitcoins :)
> xDxD
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