Re: <nettime> neo-colonial rates

[Marianne van den Boomen <boom@xs4all.nl>]

Op 15-05-2002 (23:31) schreef Ivo Skoric (ivo@reporters.net):

> income in Germany. So, the obvious conclusion would be that
> Croats can travel less and use long-distance service more 
> sparingly than Germans. Which is the empirical truth.

It is also true for travelling from mexico to United states,
and it is problably true for all travelling and
communications worldwide. The poorer a country the more
expensive it is to travel outwards or to communicate outwards.

This means distance isn't an objective measure, it is always
depending on specific localisations.
This also means that it is simply not true that the internet
resolves distance. Distance is and has always been very
earth bound and very political.


dag dag

Marianne

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