[NetBehaviour] Bruce Sterling / transmediale 2014 afterglow Opening Ceremony.

Jorn Ebner je at jornebner.de
Wed Feb 5 18:02:01 CET 2014


Hi List and Marc,

I wondered, when I sat in the audience, whether this was a move away  
from earlier performances. Also saw a Sterling key note at Siggraph a  
few years back, where his  call to the audience was quite different:  
to invent more gadgets, better things etc. This year, it was all  
critical. Both times, his key notes were in tune with the festival  
themes.

Isn't the internet THE invention of neo-liberal capitalism, promoted  
by the Clinton et. al. administrations plus lots of support for media  
based art for a number of years, and by participatig we all are  
contributing to 'neoliberal aspects of techno-capitalist culture'?

Jorn


Am 05.02.2014 um 13:00 schrieb netbehaviour-request at netbehaviour.org:

> Von: marc garrett <marc.garrett at furtherfield.org>
> Datum: 5. Februar 2014 10:30:41 MEZ
> An: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <netbehaviour at netbehaviour.org 
> >
> Betreff: Re: [NetBehaviour] Bruce Sterling / transmediale 2014  
> afterglow Opening Ceremony.
> Antwort an: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <netbehaviour at netbehaviour.org 
> >
>
>
> Hi Rob,
>
> Yes, it did look as though was trying to correct his past mistakes,  
> realising that by not questioning the neoliberal aspects of techno- 
> capitalist culture, one is actually contributing to it…
>
> wishing you well.
>
> marc
>
>
> ---------
>
> Worth noting that Sterling corrects some of his recent Morozovism in
> that talk:
>
> http://boingboing.net/2014/02/04/bruce-sterling-on-making-the-i.html
>
> In particular, I was impressed by this speech because it corrected  
> some
> serious errors from Sterling's essay "The Ecuadorian Library,"  
> which, as
> Danny O'Brien pointed out completely misattributed a kind of  
> optimistic
> naivete to technology activists past and present.

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