Web 2.0 meets Marxist (Foucaultian?) economic theory in the latest video from Austrian subversive art collective http://www.monochrom.at/english/

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http://tv.boingboing.net/2008/02/15/monochroms-marxist-s.html

Go see for yourself. The are pretty good. And smart. And on-topic.
Enjoy!

something I can´t stop thinking about, I hope to find people in the lift comunity that I can discuss this with, learn, share, put in better words... thanks for reading!

1.threshhold of effort

making things hard <--> making things easy
valuate <--> devaluate

How is blogging, social networking and other web2.0 data/contact processing nothing more than the pre-internet communication and where lay the main differences?
I would say that the operations

uttering opinions / gathering opinions
giving information / getting information

have been drastically simplified and put on a larger scale. Looking at the availability of information, this is of great benefit. What about opinions.

I dare to say that most of the opinions uttered in the Internet are completely useless and an absolute waste of time, meaning: They don’t have any value in my personal opinion building. Just about the same as in the real world.

In real world: thanks to certain limitations to my receptors I wont be able to even process the reactions of 5 or more digit numbers of co-humans to stimulus of any kind AND will not reflect on how there might be a connection to me. Good, that’s how decision making and opinion building works as a human being.

Still, it seems that numbers give confidence... Again a thing that has always been there. But this is so dead. THATS the one and only difference. It’s a mass-phenomenon without the dynamics of masses.

My judgment is based on unmappable processes in my brain that happen in mine alone and cannot be translated into very primitive (in terms of complexity) operations of set theory (clicked it/didn´t). Nothing new so far, right?

funny coincidence, I just worked with an interaction design artist, comes out she attended Lift 06 !! If you happen to be in bologna this weekend, please check out the
"artofart´s shake_08" for me!! you can hear and mess with my music in an installation called "MixBox" by the interaction designer Elisa Canducci.
-if you happen NOT to be in bologna this weekend (me neither) , BUT in switzerland, more specific berne (I am) , more specific fri 25th, come party in the "dampfzentrale", the one:shot:orchestra will play and dj for you! Slowly I´m getting excited about Lift 08 !