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

[Xuefeng Zhang]

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Many Thanks,
Xuefeng
--- Lachlan Brown <lachlan at london.com> wrote:
> 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
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> 
> 
> Lachlan Brown
> 
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> 
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