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[fox m.]

The Californian Ideology

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"The Californian Ideology" is a 1995 essay by English media theorists Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron of the University of Westminster. Barbrook describes it as a "critique of dotcom neoliberalism".[1] In the essay, Barbrook and Cameron argue that the rise of networking technologies in Silicon Valley in the 1990s was linked to American neoliberalism and a paradoxical hybridization of beliefs from the political left and right in the form of hopeful technological determinism.


Andrew Leonard of Salon called Barbrook & Cameron's work "one of the most penetrating critiques of neo-conservative digital hypesterism yet published."[3]

Ceo tekst - https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/californian-ideology

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There is an emerging global orthodoxy concerning the relation between society, technology and politics. We have called this orthodoxy `the Californian Ideology' in honour of the state where it originated. By naturalising and giving a technological proof to a libertarian political philosophy, and therefore foreclosing on alternative futures, the Californian Ideologues are able to assert that social and political debates about the future have now become meaningless.

The California Ideology is a mix of cybernetics, free market economics, and counter-culture libertarianism and is promulgated by magazines such as WIRED and MONDO 2000 and preached in the books of Stewart Brand, Kevin Kelly and others. The new faith P has been embraced by computer nerds, slacker students, 30-something capitalists, hip academics, futurist bureaucrats and even the President of the USA himself. As usual, Europeans have not been slow to copy the latest fashion from America. While a recent EU report recommended adopting the Californian free enterprise model to build the 'infobahn', cutting-edge artists and academics have been championing the 'post-human' philosophy developed by the West Coast's Extropian cult. With no obvious opponents, the global dominance of the Californian ideology appears to be complete.

On superficial reading, the writings of the Californian ideologists are an amusing cocktail of Bay Area cultural wackiness and in-depth analysis of the latest developments in the hi-tech arts, entertainment and media industries. Their politics appear to be impeccably libertarian - they want information technologies to be used to create a new `Jeffersonian democracy' in cyberspace in its certainties, the Californian ideology offers a fatalistic vision of the natural and inevitable triumph of the hi-tech free market.

 

[fox m.]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernand_Braudel

In Braudel's view, the state in capitalist countries has served as a guarantor of monopolists rather than a protector of competition, as it is usually portrayed. He asserted that capitalists have had power and cunning on their side as they have arrayed themselves against the majority of the population.[13]

 

Edited January 25, 2023 by fox m.

[fox m.]

6 strana o braći Koh.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/inside-the-koch-brothers-toxic-empire-164403/

Together, Charles and David Koch control one of the world's largest fortunes, which they are using to buy up our political system. But what they don't want you to know is how they made all that money

Edited January 25, 2023 by fox m.

[Lucky]

3 hours ago, Zwerko said:

Sad i ti jebiga - pa nije da će neko sad da dođe i da kaže "e ja sam špijun, regrutovala me CIA u Overwatchu". Cela poenta da si špijun jeste da drugi ne znaju da si špijun... Osim kad dođeš za Novu Godinu u Beograd, onda Vučić zna!

Ja bih pre rekao da je tu priča big data - Blizzard (a i drugi) njima daju uvid u ponašanja igrača, sklonosti i sl i onda na osnovu toga ovi zaključuju ko im od tih treba na osnovu toga kako se ponaša pa mu se jave. A on i ne mora da zna da su mu se javili na osnovu Blizzard podataka, nema potrebe to da mu kažu. 

naravno, ali mi je i dalje zanimljivo da imaš agente koji moraju da igraju overwatch ali i da budu agenti (npr). zvuči za nekoga kao dream come true 🙂 opet i sam hiring proces sigurno ne ide tako što cimaju ljude da se jave za posao u FBI + da si gejmer 🙂

ovo za big data je naravno realniji scenario ali u toliko nije zanimljiv kao ovaj 🙂

[fox m.]

On 1/22/2023 at 11:17 PM, reki said:

ja te volim

Iz kog razloga? Jel zato što ti otvaram nove horizonte za koje pre nisi znao ili si imao predstavu da postoje ali nisi imao dokaz?

[fox m.]

Kako rentijerski monopolski vampiri isisavaju vrednost iz ekonomija i usput imaju de facto kriminalni imunitet.
 

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-vampire-squid-strikes-again-the-mega-banks-most-devious-scam-yet-101182/

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-great-american-bubble-machine-195229/

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What you need to know is the big picture: If America is circling the drain, Goldman Sachs has found a way to be that drain — an extremely unfortunate loophole in the system of Western democratic capitalism, which never foresaw that in a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.
 
The bank’s unprecedented reach and power have enabled it to turn all of America into a giant pump-and-dump scam, manipulating whole economic sectors for years at a time, moving the dice game as this or that market collapses, and all the time gorging itself on the unseen costs that are breaking families everywhere — high gas prices, rising consumer credit rates, half-eaten pension funds, mass layoffs, future taxes to pay off bailouts. All that money that you’re losing, it’s going somewhere, and in both a literal and a figurative sense, Goldman Sachs is where it’s going: The bank is a huge, highly sophisticated engine for converting the useful, deployed wealth of society into the least useful, most wasteful and insoluble substance on Earth — pure profit for rich individuals.

 

Knjiga Douga Henewooda o tome kako sistem funkcioniše i za koga.

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The book is a definitive overview of the financial markets and their economic and political role.

https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/WSDownload.html

Edited January 26, 2023 by fox m.

[fox m.]

Odnosi kao fundamentalna stvar koja podupire novac, za koje su brojke samo deskriptor.
 

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Today, prosecution rates for white collar crime are the lowest they’ve ever been and trending downwards. Theft itself becomes a conversation, rather than just a crime, when a wealthy person does it. When one capitalist robs another, my experience is that they tend to discuss among themselves how to restore the thief to good standing without destroying anyone’s life, livelihood, or privacy. There are of course exceptions. Bernie Madoff and his $50 billion investment Ponzi scheme springs to mind. But Madoff’s position was dependent on resources and connections that turned out to be fictional. He had no realistic means to ever repay the investors he scammed (or even to return their initial investment), and so he went to prison. But for those that genuinely are well connected and do have the means to repay the people they rip off, the wealthy already have the restorative justice prison abolitionists fight for. 


Petty theft, on the other hand, is prosecuted mercilessly. I find this especially strange given how much more of a problem fraud is than theft. The FBI estimates that burglary and petty theft cost Americans about $3.4 billion in property losses. White collar crime costs between $426 billion and $1.7 trillion annually. This kleptocratic culture isn’t harmless. Enron was a natural gas company whose entire business was propped up by fraud. When they were no longer able to continue to hide the extent of their debt, they both crashed that industry and spurred massive reforms in accounting practices and fraud controls. Perhaps those reforms worked, but I doubt fraud has dropped at the rate fraud prosecution has. 
 
One white-collar criminal who comes to mind—I personally had some contact with him—was in a niche industry. He was a deal broker for commodities, and his customers would only deal with him. 10 million dollars is a lot of money, but in relation to his commission, it was not that much. His placement in the industry, his relationship to labor, was what made him wealthy, not merely the dollar amount of his salary and his assets. He himself didn’t work to produce a product, or really provide a service. He maintained a set of relationships with business owners (who also didn’t make anything with their own hands—they had employees for that) and acted as a gatekeeper of information about who needed what. Within the very specific parameters of his work, he was trusted. Of course his embezzlement wasn’t brought to the police. Focusing on the numbers rather than seeing their movement as descriptive of something, as pointing towards his relationships, is the same kind of mistake a dog makes when you point at the moon and he sniffs your finger.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/01/trumps-taxes-and-the-nature-of-money

 

Kejs in pojnt, Klaus Mangold aka Mr. Russia.
 

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One of the most important intermediaries between the Hungarian government and German corporations is a man named Klaus Mangold, a former top manager at Daimler AG, who is often referred to in German press simply as Mr. Russia (Direkt36 wrote about him earlier several times). According to a former diplomat of the Orbán government, Mangold was already active under the Socialist MSZP governments as a “man beyond party lines”. “Mangold has always represented German big capital in Hungary and in Russia. He is primarily in the service of German industry,” former ambassador Sándor Peisch said about the lobbyist.

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A Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) story published last year described him as a person who “understands the Russians.” According to FAZ, he met Vladimir Putin in 1993 during a visit to St. Petersberg as CEO of Quelle. The two have been in touch ever since.
 
“I have good relations with important Russian governmental institutions,” Mangold told the newspaper.
 
According to FAZ, he also regularly invites the political and economic elite to a 700-acre property in Schwarzwald, Baden-Württemberg. He avoids publicity but is proud of his relations. As he told FAZ, “my relations are my know-how.” He added, “This is the basis of my businesses.”

The Mysterious German Behind Viktor Orban’s Russian Deals

How Orbán played Germany, Europe’s great power

[fox m.]

Crashed by Adam Tooze review

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Tooze reserves particularly severe treatment for the Republican party, which put its own incoherent ideology and wealthy donors ahead of any desire to take responsibility for the US or the world, and Angela Merkel, who refused to put anything ahead of the prosperity of the burghers of Middle Germany.

 

Edited January 27, 2023 by fox m.

[fox m.]

History is Marching is a feature length documentary analysing the rise in tensions between major powers across the globe over the course of 2018.

 

An Atlantic Tide is a short documentary looking at the continued disintegration of the transatlantic alliance through the first half of 2019. We will be following this up with a more detailed article on our Patreon. The video builds on the discussion contained in our first film, History is Marching

 

Everything Under Heaven is a short documentary looking at the continued proliferation of antagonisms between global powers, the threat of global - even nuclear - war, and the crisis of imperialist capitalism. Building upon the analysis put forward in our 2018 documentary, History is Marching, and our 2019 short film, An Atlantic Tide, it covers the US-China trade war, the "phase one" US-China deal, Hong Kong, the politicisation of the coronavirus, conflicts between the EU imperialist bloc and the US, Brexit, the resurgence of a Turkish colonialism, the US dollar and oil, and the US' push toward drastic escalation in the Middle-East.

 

 

 

Edited January 27, 2023 by fox m.

[fox m.]

.Decay: on fascism and breakdown is a feature length Marxist documentary looking at 20th Century fascism, early English settler colonialism in the Americas and the prospects of a contemporary neofascism. The film focuses on the political economy of these forms, drawing on Rajani Palme Dutt's view that fascism represented an organisation of capitalist decay, to illustrate the various different laws of motion which condition the development of reactionary political movements.

 

 

[fox m.]

In this episode of our series looking at technology and late postmodernity, Further Studies in a Dying Culture, we look at the concept of "digital feudalism" and the internet of things. This episode is the first of a number of planned pieces looking at the so-called "fourth industrial revolution" for this series.

 

 

[fox m.]

In this video, we look at the material roots of the war in Ukraine in imperialist competition, the political and economic character of the Russian Federation, the rise of fascist forces in Ukraine, the continued escalation of the global capitalist crisis, and the potential for war to spiral into global conflagration.

 

 

Edited January 27, 2023 by fox m.

[fox m.]

 

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The End of the Megamachine draws from a great variety of sources, ranging from anthropology, history and world-system analysis to chaos theory. It challenges patterns of thinking and creates surprising connections across time, space and intellectual traditions. The book has been published in German by Promedia (Vienna, Austria) in March 2015, comprising about 270 pages (ISBN 978-3-85371-384-6). It does not require any specialized knowledge and addresses a large audience interested in social and ecological change. It takes up the current debates about the limits to growth, global justice, and the future of democracy and puts them in a larger historical context. The combination of economic, cultural, and ecological perspectives in a large historical arc of narration makes The End of the Megamachine a unique book."
 

Structure:

PART I: PRELUDE (THE 4 TYRANNIES)

1. POWER: The formation of military, economic, and ideological power in ancient history

2. METALS: The roots of the metallurgical complex and the concept of dominance over nature

3. MARKETS: The birth of coinage, early market systems and standing armies

4. POWERLESSNESS: Collective traumatization and the evolution of apocalyptic thinking

5. MISSION: The roots of Western universalism

PART II: THE MEGAMACHINE

6. MONSTERS: The formation of the modern world-system

7. MACHINE: Mechanistic science, the modern state, and the disciplining of man

8. MOLOCH: Coal power, global markets, and total wars

9. MASKS: The governance of the Megamachine and the fight for democracy

10. METAMORPHOSES: Resistance and limits to the system

11. POSSIBILITIES: Exit from the Megamachine

https://www.megamaschine.org/en/

https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/End_of_the_Megamachine

[fox m.]

Abby Martin sits down with Peter Phillips, former director of Project Censored and professor of Political Sociology at Sonoma State University. His new book “Giants: The Global Power Elite” details the 17 transnational investment firms which control over $50 trillion in wealth—and how they are kept in power by their activists, facilitators and protectors.

 

 

[fox m.]

Climate change is causing temperatures to rise. And everyone is consuming more water - whether it’s to make soda, microchips or cattle feed. But our reservoirs are running dry. Investors are buying water rights, prices are going up and farmers are running out of water.

The climate crisis is worsening worldwide. In many countries, increasing drought is threatening not only human survival, but entire ecosystems. Livestock farmers are running out of water. In India, farmers can no longer irrigate their fields. People are fleeing their homes in large numbers. Who owns water? Will there be more and more conflicts, even wars, over water? What will happen if our water disappears?

 

This is a three-part documentary series:

Part 1: The fight for water -

Part 2: What happens when our water dries up? -

Part 3: Who owns water? -

 

 

Edited January 29, 2023 by fox m.

[Lucky]

4 hours ago, fox m. said:

Part 2: What happens when our water dries up? -

 

ništa, biće kao iz onog filma SF kad ljudima ekstraktuju vodu iz tela pre nego što ih ubiju :))

[fox m.]

 

[fox m.]

Dobar sajt.

https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKmicc.htm

Dwight D. Eisenhower made his last speech as president on 17th January, 1961. Probably the most controversial speech of his career he gave the American people a serious warning about the situation that faced them: "Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations. This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence - economic, political, even spiritual - is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."

The speech was written by two of Eisenhower’s advisers, Malcolm Moos and Ralph E. Williams. However, this was not the speech they had written. Eisenhower had made some important changes to the original draft. For example, Eisenhower’s speech is a warning about the future. He does not explain how he dealt with this problem during his presidency. After all, Eisenhower gave important posts to John McCone and Robert Anderson, two key figures in the “Military-Industrial Complex”. He was also the president who succumbed to the pressures of Tommy Corcoran to order the CIA to work with United Fruit in the overthrow of democratically elected government of President Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954. Eisenhower also encouraged and benefited from the activities of Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. It was this fanatical anti-communism that fueled Cold War tensions and stimulated the arms race that was such an important ingredient in the development of the “Military-Industrial Complex”.

Another important aspect of the speech is that Eisenhower does not mention the role of politicians in this problem. This is strange as it was only through politicians that the military and the business community got what they wanted. This was one aspect of the speech that Eisenhower changed. In the original draft, Moos and Williams had used the phrase, the “Military-Industrial Congressional Complex”. This is of course a more accurate description of this relationship. However, to use the term “Congressional” would have highlighted the corruption that was taking place in the United States and illustrated the role played by Eisenhower in this scandal.

 

[oddball]

@fox m. da li si poznavao profesorku Ljiljanu Bogoevu Sedlar?

[fox m.]

@oddball Ne, što pitaš?

Edited February 17, 2023 by fox m.

[Debeli]

Odličan topik

[Lucky]

23 minutes ago, Debeli said:

Odličan topik

dobro drale, znamo da si mega zauzet bankar, ali da ti baš treba 8 meseci da pročitaš topic - i za tebe je previše! :))

[fox m.]

 

Abby Martin speaks with journalist Vincent Bevins about the hidden CIA mass murder in Indonesia, which created the model for US extermination campaigns against communists in 22 countries during the Cold War.

 

Edited December 3, 2023 by fox m.

[SATAN]

On 9/26/2023 at 8:40 PM, Debeli said:

Odličan topik

На погрешном месту 😉

[Dule_smor]

Satane, jos cekamo tvoju analizu SPC kao cionisticke tvorevine!