Haven't been here in a while. The #covid-19 #lockdowns made me focus on seeking support and community in my immediate surroundings. Just joined Neenster too - @Chrystalleni@neenster.org. It's a curious feeling resuming here and diaspora. I wonder what's changed in the past year or so. Whether there's more momentum to the fediverse and which forms that might take.
CFP: Free and Open Source Technologies, Arts and Commoning Practices: An Unconference about Art, Design, Technology, Making, Cities and their Communities http://hack66.info/commoningunconference19 … #art #foss #commons #cyprus #activism #gnu #freesoftware #hacktivism #openness #creativecommons
University of California couldn't get Elsevier to agree to universal #OpenAccess to UC research so they're not renewing their contracts with Elsevier. Fascinated to see How this plays out. (go bears) https://news.lib.berkeley.edu/elsevier-outcome
Bridging #Matrix with #WhatsApp running on a VM - https://matrix.org/blog/2019/02/26/bridging-matrix-with-whatsapp-running-on-a-vm/
@pseuzieq
hello! That sounds compellingly strong and interesting. I'm curious about your thesis topic
@Cyborgneticz
So in Plato's sense of the ideal city, the spirited (in the sense of strength/prone to anger/action/activity/executive/protective) work together with the reasonable, to benevolently rule over raw desire (the people). Less ideal are the cases where the θυμοειδές-spirited joins up with desire instead of reason. Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy is less helpful with this than I would have thought.
@Cyborgneticz
you mean if philosophers stand for reason, which group, then, stands for spirit and which for desire? I think 'the people' in broader sense stand for desire/appetitive/the libidinal. And the spirit comes up in a regulatory capacity towards the libidinal, so the executive power, the police in a sense.
@Cyborgneticz
thrilling! do tell..
hello world 😶 This is a Cyprus-based cultural historian working on art & tech freedom among other things. These days I'm also thinking about #toys (or non-toys) #play and #criticalpaedagogy. I think I'm going to like it here #introductions #foss #art #culturalstudies #mediastudies
cultural historian working towards quitting text. foraging for the meaningful.