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Etica
hacker
Claudio Parrini, Ferry
Byte, Mirella Castigli
Il sapere di cui stiamo parlando difficilmente si pone il problema
di essere conservato, visto la sua continua mutazione, l'andamento
fluido e immediato. Il know-how, pur rivestendo un ruolo centrale,
necessita di aggiornamenti e riadeguamenti continui, perché
tende per sua natura ad invecchiare subito; le tecnologie di rete,
tra novità e sperimentazione, mutano velocemente, di conseguenza
anche le competenze per usarle, testarle, ripararle e modificarle.
Occorre rivedere di continuo i profili professionali individuali,
e spesso la scuola pubblica e la formazione in generale sono carenti
e anacronistiche nell'offrire la preparazione adeguata.
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Sign
of the net.art times
Are Flagan
The popular new media concept of transcoding does indeed speak
of a limitless and highly effective translatability. Coupled with
the associated premise of numerical representation, it proposes
that the application of protocols to numbers has conjured up a
science that programs closure into every transaction, every translation,
and every transposition of what presents itself, in each transmuted
instance, as the transcendental identity of the signifier/signified.
There is an unprecedented equivocality at play here, one that
operates in the dark passages of hardware and comes to light through
software, and which is consequently instrumental in separating
itself (and its objects) from the elucidating passage of the signifying
operations.
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Free Bandwidth
Jesse
Hirsh
We recognize that the public uses the Internet,
but is the Internet in anyway public? Do we and can we recognize
that communication is also a right? If we want to have a social
good or public interest in our network society, than we need the
Internet to be "public", in the same way we think of
the airwaves as being in the public domain and subject to regulation.
In order for the Internet to be public, bandwidth must be free.
Free as in subsidized. Costs still exist, and its important to
account for these costs, but its also crucial to create an environment
in which the public (interest) can exist, let alone flourish.
We talk about the erosion of sovereignty and the encroachment
of culture, but what are we doing about it? Creating a public
Internet (itself an extension of public space) by subsidizing
broadband connections is one step in that direction.
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Sculptural
Form in Net.Art
Jorn Ebner
Existence has sculptural form, because it
is executed in a spatial environment. The placement of urban or
rural features; of objects in a household; of furniture in a hotel
room: they constitute sculptural arrangements. LIFE, when lived
with a minimum of self-reflection, is formed in ways similar to
an artefact. Art, on the other hand, can become an operational
tool for existence similar to a household object: by being less
of a representational device but more of a tool for self-reflection.
As soon as art assumes such a condition, it assumes material,
sculptural quality. Net.art, by assuming a conceptualizingly spatial
role that operates as a reflection tool for one's existence, could
then contribute to a physical alteration in the experience of
space.
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Commodifying
Usenet and the Usenet Archive or Continuing the Online Cooperative
Usenet Culture?
Ronda Hauben
This article explores the conflict between the cooperative online
culture of users who have created Usenet and the corporate commodification
of Usenet posts by companies archiving the posts. The clash of
decision-making processes is presented through the details of
how Usenet users choose to petition a company to provide protection
for the public archives it had collected. The company disregarded
the petition and the archives were sold to another company. The
new company has begun to put its own copyright symbol on the posts
in its archives. How will such a commodification affect the cooperative
nature of Usenet itself and the continuing vitality of Usenet's
cooperative culture? The article explores this culture clash and
considers possible consequences.
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