Wednesday, September 19, 2007
a message sent to A/SA/SYN from the dotcommune
A Spectre is haunting multinational capitalism--the spectre of free information. All the powers of ``globalism'' have entered into an unholy alliance to exorcize this spectre: Microsoft and Disney, the World Trade Organization, the United States Congress and the European Commission.
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A spectre is haunting Virtual Environments, their democratisation.
It is the spectre of democracy, which after the abandonment of its physical space [real life] sinking more and more in the contradiction of lies and the cancellations that lead to its constitution, it breached the relations with the real and it became itself a spectre. This is how the paradox of spectre occurred, the wandering shadow of democracy. A spectre that tries to penetrate, and aims to democratize the new kind of ghosts that constitute the space which forms a major element of human experience: The Virtual Environments.
is the democratization of virtual environments of a lesser importance than the democratization of "real life"
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is it necessary to choose?
does the democratization of one negate the democratization of the other?
When democratic culture become technological, sooner or later democratic rules also have to be hardwired into the technical systems , for example in the form of software. Instead of asking how representative democracy can be saved or renewed (by or without using the internet), the first question that needs to be asked is how democratic the internet (and its culture) itself is.
But how the democratisation in both real life and of the virtual environments / internet, in general can be measured?
By software I refer not only to programs like Photoshop, a game engine or how wiki works but the internet itself and in a great extent the ‘physical’ public space with its rules of use. Software expresses itself with interfaces which tend to function as social sculpture.
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