“ I think human society is going to have to kind of get its shit together to make it another 500 years, hell, even 200. And I don’t mean just survive, I mean, in a manner that is, you know, pleasant. Rich Jensen at 20: 50 on 22 June
July 4, 2009
“ Saul Ostrow points out most people with computer access are middle class by some definition. But people with mobile access are a vastly broader group, one that includes large numbers of subsistence farmers. Currently tens of millions of Africans are investing in mobile devices and infrastructure in a way that allows them in a certain way to occupy what Hegel called ‘the stage of history.’ They can at least potentially be considered ‘players’ in a way that the Iranian people are at the moment for instance. Put another way, the human part of the standing-reserve is now a ‘mechanism of aggregate production’, at least in potential. That would be where class consciousness emerges, and it is not a classic ‘working’ class or middle class, but a class that is emerging and defining itself in action, putting itself past the worker/middle class split that is so effectively exploited here in the US (and clearly delineated in this thread.)
4 hours agoNam June Pak, ‘Zen For TV 1963/1990’, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
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July 3, 2009
