Re: <nettime> 'La Casemate', Grenoble FabLab burned down by anti-digital activists

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>]

This is correct observation.

"Hacker spaces" and similar are simply recruitment centers for the new 
cognitive class that will facilitate the machine-mediated control of the 
rest. People instinctively understand this, despite the deluge of 
propaganda to the contrary.

Computing machines are all about control. While there is a number of 
positive side effects for those on the receiving side, ultimately it's 
about control of the many by the few. Tending to computing machines 
('programming') has immediate gratification: you see many hapless 
'users' being controlled  by your 'interface', following instructions 
you embedded once into the machine, millions and millions of times. You 
don't have to be there, they still obey you and your 'flow design'. You 
created f*cking 15 ... 10 commandments! (nod to Mr. Brooks.) You are 
god. This is the only reason why everyone and their mother wants to 
'learn' computing 'science'.



On 12/14/17, 06:05, Patrice Riemens wrote:
> Echoing recent digital critics such as Douglas Rushkoff or even myself,
> they ask themselves what’s revolutionary or prophetic in an industry
> that relies on old-school capitalism, monopolies, micro-work, state
> regulations and money as a cardinal value. And as they reject the hacker
> myth, they end up calling a revered

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