[Hi all, for those interested in the 'new economy', the Tulipomnania DotCom
conference website is worth checking out. URL and general details below.
John]
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Tulipomnania DotCom
http://www.balie.nl/tulipomania/
The conference Tulipomnania DotCom intends to develop an informed critique
of the
politics of electronic finance and internet economics. The aim of the
conference is to
raise the level of economic competence of the cultural and social sector,
and
simultaneously inject economic analysis with a sensitivity to on- and
offline cultures,
as well as a hands-on understanding of the new communication spaces.
The conference aims to set an agenda for possible models of intervention in
this new
domain of networked communication, and to reclaim vital public functions of
the new
information and communication environments.
To achieve this a dialogue has to be started between critical economic
analysis,
critical net discourses, and the premises of policy making, as well as the
various
social movements that operate in this domain. To facilitate this exchange
of
knowledge is a prime aim of the conference.
By bringing together critical discourse in these different domains we
intend to find
alternatives to deadly adapt-or-die rhetorics, as well as to dire
structural inevitability
(aka "There Is No Alternative") or simplifying activism.
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