[Reader-list] America Dreaming, Bhopal, Dow, TheyRule, YesMen, The Thing, Sarai, Broadband... and the precise nature of oppositional, resistant and alternative media and communications?

[Lachlan Brown]

Suj line: Re: [Reader-list] America Dreaming, Bhopal, Dow, TheyRule, YesMen, The Thing, Sarai, Broadband... and the precise nature of oppositional, resistant and alternative media and communications?


Hmm...

   I think a set of questions are beginning to cluster around the 
meanings of alternative media online, rights and responsibilities 
in (e)publishing(to what degree and where is anonymity and 
collectivity of identity appropriate in challenging undue accumulations 
of power), the reality of 'mass e-markets' internationally (whatever Geert 
Lovink thinks is politically expedient [the pragmatic Dutch...] to state 
in highlighting the mere technical difference between wired and wireless 
computer distributed media and communication) and some outstanding questions 
concerning environmental pollution, risk, and restitution left over from 
'old Late Capital' - the Chemical Industry typified the heightened order
and specialism of Imperial capital.

What's particularly interesting is how 'old' Late Capital interests and 
'new' Capital interests are at odds. Dow is asserting power over 'new media' 
Verio. The Directors of The Thing are cast into a position of heightened 
responsibility to assert (and defend) 'Liberty'. Quite a 
responsibility, they are buckling under the pressure (see Nettime).

We all have an interest in this NYC turf battle. Its about how America 
Imagines indeed re-imagines itself.

  Let us therefore mobilise public opinion around these questions 
and bring to bear all the perspicuity we can muster. If some of us must 
sit on the sidelines and observe then perhaps we might do so noisily?

  

   Lachlan Brown
   
BTW I am making 500 subscriptions available at $250 each for an undertaking of
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l.brown at london.com.


Lachlan Brown

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