Alan Sondheim on Sat, 5 May 2018 04:53:42 +0200 (CEST)


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Re: <nettime> please read - and how can this possibly be combatted? 

On Thu, 3 May 2018, Heiko Recktenwald wrote:


On Sat, 28 Apr 2018, sebastian@rolux.org wrote::


compare, and should not be compared. But it's not hate speech that
worries me, it's the languages of desire, and what becomes of them
once they enter the grid of two hundred million. (9) Google "Jessi
Slaughter", for starters


Am 28/04/18 um 18:34 schrieb Alan Sondheim:


I do wonder if hate speech isn't precisely the languages of desire? TV
advertising around here is now based on jealousy and putdowns - buy
this car and you'll triumph over your neighbors. Just the planting of
a seed -


Isnt that in the story of the Tower of Babel? Maybe we should read it again.
or the opposite, every thing and every one speaking exactly the same digital terrain, the same protocols. even in one of 'my' areas of interest, non-western instrumentation, the well-tempered western scale and accompanying musics have been increasingly dominant. 




The human destinity? The Donald and what we thought of him were mostly
reflections of ourselves and maybe it is the same here. One very old
friend very deep in the pop-media-business once told me that fb is the
first usable interface and I started to use it again. Maybe we should be
less pessimistic. What is that "knowledge" of fb? Cant we laugh about
it? And what is new in our "mass-psychology"? What people may do one
day? A question of speed?


depends on what knowledge or knowledging of fb one's concerned with -

- Alan, thanks!


There are some problems of dataownership that have mostly to do with
sharing that data. What did Cambridge do wrong? They didnt pay. As if
science would not be free.


Best, H.

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