Re: <nettime> What do you read?

[Stefan Heidenreich via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

- Marshall McLuhan: Forword to: Harold Innis: Empire and Communication 
(1972 ed.): Media as "living vortices of power".
- Alexander Karp / Nicholas Zaminska: The Technological Republic
post-libertarian call to re-nationalize tech and leave consumers aside.
- Ingeborg Bachmann: Drei Wege zum See (three paths to the lake), bcs 
I've stumbled upon it in Peter Thiel's syllabus for his Standford German 
Literature Seminar (2019) - "explores the subjective experience of 
cosmopolitan life, amid questions of empire and the authenticity of 
provinicial localism". I'm writing an article this choice.
- Montesquieu: Spirit of Law - begs to acknowledge the difference 
between written law/rules and political practice / principles.

In the meantime I'm still wondering if Trump lost in tarif-jungle is
a) dumb as a sack of bricks
or
b) following a very sophisticated AI with seemingly chaotic orders which 
happen to achieve intended results (Europeans pumping up military 
industry, falling $ ...)

Yours
Stefan



Am 10.04.25 um 11:10 schrieb Geert Lovink via nettime-l:
> Dear nettimers,
>
> silence here is not really justified. Let’s move on as there’s so much happening in the world. The ‘christian nationalism’ thread was extremely good and informative. I am curious what you read and find interesting, enlightening, disturbing, beyond the ordinary news flow. All link lists are subjective and so is this one. As I said before, the original idea of nettime was not only to debate and produce ‘internet criticism’ but also to practice ‘collaborative filtering’ of vital content you want others to read. Both search engines and AI cannot do that task of collective ‘intelligence’.
>
> Yours, Geert
>
> —
>
> ’Techgnosis’ Erik Davis on how to navigate the weirdness aka survive the current regime
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=GGxtbQ8fkho&t=1355s
>
> Background of DOGE, from a conspiratotial US perspective
> https://unlimitedhangout.com/2025/03/investigative-reports/the-dark-maga-gov-corp-technate-part-1/
> https://unlimitedhangout.com/2025/03/investigative-reports/the-dark-maga-gov-corp-technate-part-2/
>
> Are there any good articles on DOGE that you can recommend?
>
> Will tariffs bring back manufacturing to the US? An expert reports
> https://www.molsonhart.com/blog/america-underestimates-the-difficulty-of-bringing-manufacturing-back
>
> First letter from LA to European friends, by Peter Lunenfeld
> https://networkcultures.org/blog/2025/03/24/triumph-of-the-feels/
>
> Second letter from LA to European friends, by Peter Lunenfeld
> https://networkcultures.org/blog/2025/04/10/heir-of-the-dog-that-bit-you/

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