neil- this in response to your response.
everyone else- we’re talking about open source, politics, and oppositionality.
It makes me happy that you bring up the impotance of opposition, versus resistance. I yammer about oppositionality in my thesis (no one knows everything) because Innis talks about the importance of sustaining a diverse opposition in governement with [...]
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(s. of bloor, w. of bathurst)
thursday august 3rd, 8pm
earlier/later for drinks
Risa
Having just composed this, please read on:
I agree with you at the end: we ought to fostering multidirectional communication and accommodating those cut out by monopolized one-directional avenues. Exchange and interface – whether it be friction, fog, tension – is required. It is, most plainly, ethics. Yet, I am suspicious of any move to validate [...]
the open source internet is a written media (text upon code) but it’s so deep that it has a time quality that’s like orality. not just the immediacy of orality- like voice over internet orality- though that is half, and cool. (so cool we actually have an interview with an open source programmer who’s working [...]
i received this from robin milette of facil today, who is kind enough to keep me in touch with the local linux commmunity’s goings down. it’s info about a presentation happening this week, july 20th, about an album that was recorded using all open source software, at a recording studio called Studio Cadence in Quebec. [...]
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no one knows everything: Harold Innis and Open Source. (a pdf for now)- click the link to get to it, or go ahead and read the “abstract” or “teaser” below. be forwarned! i tried to make it read nice, but it’s still super thesisy.–
Abstract
By looking at some lesser known writings of [...]
