Re: <nettime> The New Culture? The New Economy!

[richard barbrook <richard@hrc.wmin.ac.uk>]

Hiya,

>even
>self-proclaimed British cyber communist Richard Barbrook did not ask the
>million dollar question: will democracy survive its own economization?

Bollocks. What I always point out is that the hi-tech gift economy is
precisely that: an *economy*. 

Later,

Richard

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