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Old 07-08-2016, 01:22 AM   #331 (permalink)
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You kept talking about Underworld, so I checked out Dubnobasswithmyheadman, and it was awesome.

I am now high as a kite and this **** is transcendentl
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Old 07-08-2016, 03:38 PM   #332 (permalink)
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You kept talking about Underworld, so I checked out Dubnobasswithmyheadman, and it was awesome.

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Magnificent, Batty! So happy you dig it! Few things make me happier than turning a new listener onto my favorite artist. I'm so glad the write up has done some good!

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Thanks for the info! I know basically nothing about Underworld, but I'm going to give them a listen. Which three albums should I start with? Please, only three recs right now.
Follow Bat's lead and start with Dubnobasswithmyheadman, just like the article suggests. If you dig it, move on to the next featured recordings. The Guide pretty much takes you step by step.

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Thanks a lot for all of the Underworld information. Great read. I'm gonna follow your recommendations and start on them tonight. Reading that I also just realized that my first listen of them was through Sunshine around 6 years ago rather than Trainspotting, pretty cool.
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Picked up some original Arista Records and Warner Records promotional photographs from the early 70s while antiquing last weekend. Just finished framing the pieces to complement the 18x24 custom prints I had produced for my listening room.

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Default Privacy Rights & Copyright Reform in Light of the Post-Scarcity Digital Economy

For the past few months, I've been immersed in literature, documentary films, essays, and manifestoes centering on privacy rights in the digital age and on copyright reform in light of the post-scarcity digital economy.

What follows is mostly for my archival reference, a summary of the best media I've found relating to these topics. Each title is hyperlinked to reference information on the work or to the work itself, as are links to the bibliographies of the authors who published them.

While many members of the forum may find this exquisitely uninteresting, my aim is that a user might find something here of value, which either supports or challenges his/her ideas about the digital economy. Perhaps this archive will introduce them to a work which inspires or enlightens them, whether to cryptographic security measures or to a heightened awareness of the need for legal reform to reflect this technological revolution. If even one person is influenced by this entry, then it has served its purpose.

REFERENCE MATERIALS AND OTHER INFORMATION RESOURCES

Books discussing Copyright Reform, Free Culture, and the Digital Economy as it Pertains to Media:

Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity by Lawrence Lessig

Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put Balance Back in Copyright by Patricia Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi

Moral Panics - Copyright Wars by William Patry

How to Fix Copyright by William Patry

The New Media Monopoly: A Completely Revised and Updated Edition by Ben H. Bagdikian

How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy by Stephen Witt

The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World by Lawrence Lessig

The Piracy Crusade: How the Music Industry's War on Sharing Destroys Markets and Erodes Civil Liberties by Aram Sinnreich

Copy, Rip, Burn: The Politics of Copyleft and Open Source by David M. Berry

Democracy of Sound: Music Piracy and the Remaking of American Copyright in the Twentieth Century by Alex Sayf Cummings

Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy by Lawrence Lessig

Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens CreativitybySiva Vaidhyanathan

The Googlization of Everything: (And Why We Should Worry) by Siva Vaidhyanathan

The Future of the Internet and How to Stop Itby Jonathan L. Zittrain

The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalismby Matt Mason

Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Futureby Cory Doctorow

The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mindby James Boyle

Cowboys and Indies: The Epic History of the Record Industryby Gareth Murphy

The Anarchist in the Library by Siva Vaidhyanathan


On Consumer Culture and Propaganda:

Propaganda by Edward Bernays

Media Control, Second Edition: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda by Noam Chomsky

The Essential Chomsky (New Press Essential) by Noam Chomsky

Consumed - How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults & Swallow Citizens Wholeby Benjamin R. Barber

Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu, James Robinson

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond

Planned Obsolescenceby Kathleen Fitzpatrick

Republic, Lost: Version 2.0 by Lawrence Lessig

and (R)evolution: A Journal of 21st Century Thought by The Anarchists of Chicago (no record of this zine on the web - refer to physical copy)


Related documentaries, literature, and subjects for further exploration:

I journeyed further down the rabbit hole this evening, compiling a roster of related documentaries, lit, talks, and articles discussing our technological future.

The list of documentaries included several anti-capitalist features, each cautioning the viewer about the inevitable economic brick wall to which the globalized world is speeding. Films such as:
There is also a documentary on the similar Burning Man culture titled, Gifting It: A Burning Embrace of Gift Economy (2002). View the trailer here.

As I work my way through these films I've been jotting down key concepts:
  • Anarchist communism (also known as anarcho-communism, free communism, libertarian communism, and communist anarchism
  • antimarketism (societies altogether abandoning currency and markets, instead opting for alternatives like gift economies)
  • post-scarcity economics
  • Copyleft
  • Kopimism
  • Access to Knowledge Movement
  • Sharing Economy
  • The Virtual Revolution
  • Open Access
  • Mutual Aid
  • Moral Economy
  • the Free Culture Movement
  • Open Culture and Remix Culture
  • the Open Content Project
  • Creative Commons
  • Read-Write Culture
  • Free Music Philosophy
  • The Commons
  • Free Content (the New Commons)
  • File-Sharing (a consumer gift system)
  • Post-scarcity economy - Digital Abundance
  • Information Society / Knowledge Economy
  • decentralism
  • and The Venus Project (discussed in Zeitgeist 2)
and unavoidably, Marxism and anarcho-communism keep surfacing as closely-related subjects.

Related Literature:
  • A Whole New Mind: Why Right-brainers Will Rule the Future
  • Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think
  • Post-Scarcity Anarchism (1971)
One of the definitive starting points for these areas of politics and economics are the writings of the intellectual and political activist, Noam Chomsky. Chomsky identifies as a libertarian socialist and a sympathizer of anarcho-syndicalism.

Wikipedia offers a summary of his political positions here.

And this article cites several core texts of decentralism. Among them are:
  • Kirkpatrick Sale’s Human Scale
  • Herbert Agar’s Land of the Free (1935)
  • Leopold Kohr - The Breakdown of Nations (1957)
  • E.F. “Fritz” Schumacher - Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (1973)
  • Wilhelm Röpke - A Humane Economy: The Social Framework of the Free Market (1958)
  • Alvin Toffler’s The Third Wave (1980)
  • Robert Nisbet - The Quest for Community (1953)
  • Peter Kropotkin- Fields, Factories and Workshops (1899)
  • Gilbert K. Chesterton - What’s Wrong with the World (1910)
  • Gilbert K. Chesterton - Outline of Sanity (1926)
  • Allan Carlson’s Third Ways (2007) is a lively account of Chesterbellocian distributism
  • Henry Calvert Simons’ trenchant essay “A Political Credo” remains a classic
  • Michael Shuman’s Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in the Global Age (2000)
  • Gar Alperovitz - America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy (2005) - a sweeping analysis of what’s wrong with modern-day America
Digital Rights Publications:

John Perry Barlow’s 1990 article at EFF.org - Crime and Puzzlement
QuestionCopyright.org
FreeCulture.org
OpenMedia.ca
The Open Rights Group (UK)
2600: The Hacker Quarterly
WIRED.com
Information Wants to be Free: Intellectual Property and the Mythologies of Control (written by R. Polk Wagner and published by the University of PA)

Crypto-Anarchism / Cypherpunks:

I've just received an internet privacy milestone artifact in the post. I'd spent the last week delving into the politics of crypto-anarchism and the cypherpunks. (The "crypto" does not refer to a covert political position as it does in the term, "crypto-fascism", but instead refers to politics concerned with privacy in the digital age.)

Pictured below is the second EVER issue of WIRED, published in May of 1993. The masked gents holding the flag on the cover are the early cypherpunks, including the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and fathers of Bitcoin.

Their core philosophy back in 1993 was that government can never be trusted to protect civilian privacy on the internet and that it was up to private citizens to develop technology to protect it.

John Perry Barlow is among those featured - the man who published A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace in 1996. (The archival record album of which I featured on my member journal.)

These men had incredible foresight of that which has come to pass in the 20 years since the issue's publication!



For more on the subject, read the free eBook, Bit by Bit: How P2P Is Freeing the World by Jeffrey Tucker.

For more on privacy measures you can implement to make your surfing more secure, visit the Crypto Party Guide and review their Handbook.

And here is an excellent guide to securing your browser.

Thank you.
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Default The Nostalgia of "Vintage Tech"

One of the surprising bonuses of picking up a cutting-edge tech magazine from May of 1993 is the unexpected nostalgia trip of advertisements that were printed in the issue.
Check out these ads for Sony's new MiniDiscs, the 3DO, new 200GB hard drives, and more.

VR goggles, the PowerGlove, and the most painful-looking ergonomic keyboard ever!



My favorite ad in the issue - "I can record on a disc! I can record on a disc!" (Sony's new MiniDisc technology)



Aldus PageMaker (before the Adobe acquisition)



Coming this summer!



The early days of the Sci-Fi Channel and their official MAGAZINE!



Seagate's new 200GB HDDs!



ORDER NOW!



A four-page feature on the promising new 3DO console.



The scary thing is that AOL still pushes their dial-up service to thousands of elderly customers all over the US.

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I have a ton of MDs with a lot of great music I've picked up over the years. And I actually have an MD player. MDs were huge here in Japan.
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Japan is such a fascinating place. I wish I could have seen the Tomato Art Collective's installation pieces in Tokyo.

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Every vinyl enthusiast should be celebrating today, as Discogs has officially launched their app in the Play Store! Only just over 1000 downloads so far... where is everybody?



Well, I for one am celebrating with Low's Christmas EP - side 1 track 1: "JUST LIKE CHRISTMAS!"

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