[lbo-talk] Trends In Panopticon Technology 2: Plugging the "Analog Hole"

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Mon Dec 19 13:53:54 PST 2005


Dwayne Monroe wrote:


>Technology now makes it possible to create transaction
>points that were scarcely dreamed of before. The
>long term goal seems to be turning the entertainment
>industry into an immense rentier (or, more precisely,
>a rentier on a distributed scale not seen before ).
>
Well, there could be a bright side -- these rentier jackasses can do everything but provide content. So there might be a return, in reaction to this crap, to "analogue" artisanal production meant for local use only.

You know: back to a samizdat literature/art/music circuit in which you actually have to know how to draw/dance/act/sing/play an instrument or know someone who can, in order to enjoy art. A rebirth of "vernacular" culture!!!

And there should be enough open source shit to make some of this available over the net. Servers aren't that expensive.

I can dream, anyway.

Joanna



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