london calling
Vuelo: BA461
De: Barajas Arpt (MAD), Madrid, España (terminal 4S)
Salida: 19/01/2007 18:40
A: Heathrow (LHR), Londres, Reino Unido (terminal 1)
Llegada: 20:10
Papá Noel, todo corazón!
...notas desde las fantásticas tierras de Vidousville...
Vuelo: BA461
De: Barajas Arpt (MAD), Madrid, España (terminal 4S)
Salida: 19/01/2007 18:40
A: Heathrow (LHR), Londres, Reino Unido (terminal 1)
Llegada: 20:10
Papá Noel, todo corazón!
Publicadas por VJ a la/s 10:11 p. m. 3 comentarios
y el domingo, gracias a los contactos de S. fuimos con el sr.luna y un compis de S. a ver FAMA. yeah! I wanna live forever!...pero en versión musical y españolizada.
Estuvo lindo, el palco, la penumbra, y esos dulces a mano.
Publicadas por VJ a la/s 1:02 a. m. 0 comentarios
“Aunque a lo largo de los años han existido numerosas discusiones implícitas – incluso alguna explícita- sobre estas asociaciones, nadie realmente intento rastrear las conexiones hasta el 2005 cuando John Markoff publicó What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer.
La narrativa de Markoff da vueltas principalmente sobre las figuras de Douglas Engelbart y Stewart Brand.(…)
Engelbart, en contraste con el mainstream informático de la época empezó a pensar a las computadoras como algo que podría aumentar y expandir la capacidad de la mente humana. Al mismo tiempo, otro grupo de Palo Alto, California investigaba y experimentaba con el LSD como una herramienta para aumentar y expandir la mente humana. Y después, junto con ello llego todo el movimiento anti-guerra y anti stablishment de los sesenta y todas estas tendencias empezaron a estar cada vez más interconectadas mientras un cultura informacional de “la gente” evolucionaba en y alrededor del área de la bahía de San Francisco”.
1. "No doubt there are innumerable ways networks communicators and their
communicative actions are governed. I would like to provide a background to this issue by highlighting four generic types of control of communication that operate in countless instances in various networks. (...)
The first and most obvious way communication is controlled is by the exclusion of people from communication networks (...) The second way communicators are governed in networks is by inclusion and assimilation to a network form of subjectivity. This is the central form of network governance to which every networker is subject. Castells argues that there are two main classes: those who "interact" and those who are "interacted" upon, and who fits in which class is determined by economic class, race, gender and country. (...) The third way the flow of knowledge is controlled is through the action of the more powerful nodes in any network. The popular image of networks as flexible, open and democratic governance communities or partnerships tends to hide this feature. (...)
2. The first answer to our question of the possibility of critical action, therefore, is just to raise explicit awareness of the distinctive background context in which we communicate today, by means of various background sketches.(...) Rendering networks and network governance explicit thus puts us in the position of being able to call into question and have a say over the relations of power through which our communication is governed and the norms that are advanced to legitimate them, that is, of acting democratically.
3. So, our question can be reformulated as: what are the possibilities and examples of democratic communicative action?
Two general types of democratic communicative action are possible.[45] The first is
to subject communication networks to the traditional legal and political institutions of existing nation states, international law and the United Nations. (...)
The second general strategy, accordingly, is to democratize communication networks directly, so networkers and those excluded yet effected can call into question and have a say in contextually appropriate practices of democratic discussion, negotiation and decision-making in the nodes in which they network (or from which they are presently excluded).4. The first step is to realize that the possibilities and opportunities for democratic communicative action exist here and now, wherever we communicate. Democratic communicative action is not only possible in some abstract sense. It is an "opportunity" in any node. First, the most popular vehicle for democratic communicative action in the network age is without doubt non-governmental organizations (NGOs). However, their role is ambivalent.
(...) NGOs have also been instrumental in reproducing and expanding some of the undemocratic features of existing networks. Over 70 percent of the 50,000 INGOs (international NGOs) are registered in Europe and North America and funded by Northern governments and corporations to promote their agendas.
From the pioneering activities of Amnesty International and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in confronting and opening closed channels of communication to
the latest small scale, alternative network globalization from below, such as providing e-mail for rural doctors and missionaries in Zambia by high-frequency
radio and Sailmail, there are countless other examples from which we can learn."
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