{"id":505,"date":"2007-03-23T09:17:45","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T09:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=505"},"modified":"2014-03-07T17:07:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T22:07:01","slug":"my-man-bruce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=505","title":{"rendered":"My Man Bruce"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m slightly surprised not to have seen much reference to Bruce Sterling’s SXSW Rant<\/a> this year. I listened to it today and (as usual) found bits of it apposite and provocative. Some good lines even if one doesn’t entirely agree, and\/or hadn’t had occasion to think of it that way –a lot to chew on, follow up, explore in more detail. He’s a luvvim\/hateim speaker, like Garrison Keillor in that respect (my spouse can’t abide GK, and knows it’s him within ONE syllable, and OFF goes the radio).<\/p>\n

Here’s another way to experience Bruce (8:15, and worth it as an Example), and it (as object, and as Example) will make even more SENSE once you’ve listened to the soundbites below:
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So on to the SXSW soundbites:<\/p>\n

1. broadband eats everything<\/a> …the old line guys are trying to live on artificial scarcity, pile up the DRM… (0:18)<\/p>\n

2. the native Internet generation cares nothing<\/a> for the proprieties of 20th century media (0:13)<\/p>\n

3. you pitch Google and Wikipedia together, and it’s kind of game over for the 80s<\/a> (0:32)<\/p>\n

4. Reformulating the Four Worlds model<\/a> to reflect new realities: (2:05)<\/p>\n

First: global market world (make it in Shenzhen, ship it to…)
Second: governance at all levels
Third: commons-based peer production a new thing, growing fast with profound effects on general population
Fourth: disorder, parts of the world just falling off that don’t have any of this (fastest-growing part of the planet)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

5. commons-based peer production<\/a> more powerful than people give it credit for (0:30)<\/p>\n

6. things that are businesses stop being businesses<\/a> …CraigsList, the profession of journalism and the Global Precariate(1:39)<\/p>\n

7. a new world of laptop gypsies<\/a>, vulnerable to charlatans, ripoff artists, dunderheads, lynch mobs (0:19)<\/p>\n

8. on artistic qualities: repurposing of Harry Potter characters, pastiche: Sow’s Ears aren’t Silk<\/a> (0:48)<\/p>\n

9. mashups in vogue, but a raw source of creativity? no musical staying power<\/a>, pastiche, epiphenomenon (1:08)<\/p>\n

10. Lev Manovich’s ‘Soft Cinema’<\/a>, and powerful compositing tools in people’s hands (1:47)<\/p>\n

11. need a new form of media criticism<\/a> (0:50)<\/p>\n

12. using the term ‘blog’…a passing thing?<\/a> (0:08)<\/p>\n

13. style of discourse: Dig This!<\/a> (0:28)<\/p>\n

14. spam as semiotic pollution<\/a>, machine-generated robbery and gibberish (0:36)<\/p>\n

15. broadcast tv as evil medium that debases<\/a> (1:58)<\/p>\n

16. conventional businesses melting like the Arctic<\/a> (0:46)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s more… Go to Bruce Sterling’s SXSW Rant<\/a> for the link to the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m slightly surprised not to have seen much reference to Bruce Sterling’s SXSW Rant this year. I listened to it today and (as usual) found bits of it apposite and provocative. Some good lines even if one doesn’t entirely agree, and\/or hadn’t had occasion to think of it that way –a lot to chew on, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,41,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery","category-technology","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2732,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/2732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}