Psybernet Resources for Hosts of Internet Mailing Lists and Conferences
Useful, and will make it into a blog one day so i can add more resources easily. Let me know if you have items you think should go here.
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The Economies of Online Cooperation:
The Internet is filled with junk and jerks. It is commonplace for inhabitant of the Internet to complain bitterly about the lack of cooperation, decorum, and useful information. The signal-to-noise ratio, it is said, is bad and getting worse.
Even a casual trip through cyberspace will turn up evidence of hostility, selfishness, and simple nonsense. Yet the wonder of the Internet is not that there is so much noise, but that there is any significant cooperation at all. Given that online interaction is relatively anonymous, that there is no central authority, and that it is difficult or impossible to impose monetary or physical sanctions on someone, it is striking that the Internet is not literally a war of all against all. For a student of social order, what needs to be explained is not the amount of conflict but the great amount of sharing and cooperation that does occur in online communities.
This might be useful in the “commodification” discussion.
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The Jung Page was founded in 1995 to encourage new psychological ideas and conversations about what it means to be human in our time and place
This is a new address for the jung page. I thought it had gone defunct. A good place to go.
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You will see that I have ustalled one! It works well.
Psychotherapy Online with Walter Logeman
Psychotherapy Online with Walter Logeman
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I have updated my Psychotherapy Online pages.
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August 2021
to be clear… this was 21 years ago. I did that work for decades and loved it . I could do so again. But not now. Other projects occupy my life. Training psychodrama, running groups .
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Wired 8.04: Why the future doesn’t need us. By Bill Joy
“Our most powerful 21st-century technologies – robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech – are threatening to make humans an endangered species.
I saw that Dolores O’Brien had written a comment on this article so bought Wired one more time. However it is here online all along. Here is Dolore’s article: http://www.cgjung.com/psychtech/endangered.html
Symbolic Species
The Symbolic Species : The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain by Terrence W. Deacon
What separates humans from animals, Deacon writes, is our capacity for symbolic representation. Animals can easily learn to link a sound with an object or an effect with a cause. But symbolic thinking assumes the ability to associate things that might only rarely have a physical correlation; think of the word “unicorn,” for instance, or the idea of the future. Language is only the outward expression of this symbolic ability, which lays the foundation for everything from human laughter to our compulsive search for meaning.
It is this ability to do the symbolic thing that is the stuff that dreams and cyberspace is made of.
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Friday, 12 January 2024
But. This is a philosophically idealist perspective.
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XML in 10 points
I have a sense, but am not sure, that XML is actually something that strengthens our personal connections. I know that all this might work towards some commodification process… however I’d like it to also assist in the process of linking me to others inthe collaborative filtering way, can it do that? Do i need to learn it?
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The Hi-Tech Gift Economy by Richard Barbrook
The hi-tech gift economy heralds the end of private property in ‘cutting edge’ areas of the economy.
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Net users will always obtain much more than will ever be contributed in return. By giving away something which is well-made, they will gain recognition from those who download their work. For most people, the gift economy is simply the best method of collaborating together in cyberspace. Within the mixed economy of the Net, anarcho-communism has become an everyday reality.
I think it is all marvelous, but something is not quite right. Perhaps it is more that there is a revolution brewing, that the means of production – and the nature of the fundamental commodity has changed. Its not communism thats for sure.
I have become the world
CTHEORY: Cyberwar, God And Television: Interview with Paul Virilio
Virilio: The body has a dimension of simulation. The learning process, for instance: when one learns how to drive a car or a van, once in the van, one feels completely lost. But then, once you have learnt how to drive, the whole van is in your body. It is integrated into your body. Another example: a man who pilots a Jumbo Jet will ultimately feel that the Boeing is entering his body. But what is going on now, or should happen in one or two generations, is the disintegration of the world. Real time ‘live’ technologies, cyberreality, will permit the incorporation of the world within oneself. One will be able to read the entire world, just like during the Gulf War. And I will have become the world. The body of the world and my body will be one. Once again, this is a divine vision; and this is what the military are looking for. Earth is already being integrated into the Pentagon, and the man in the Pentagon is already piloting the world war – or the Gulf War – as if he were a captain whose huge boat would have become his own body. Thus the body simulates the relationship to the world.
That is isnteresting on the connection between the body and the virtual world!