<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Thanks for the shout-out.<br><br></div><div><br>On 13 May 2014, at 16:46, Edward L Platt <<a href="mailto:ed@elplatt.com">ed@elplatt.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">Required reading: "Hacking The Spaces" by Johannes Grenzfurthner and Frank Apunkt Schneider. <a href="http://www.monochrom.at/hacking-the-spaces/">http://www.monochrom.at/hacking-the-spaces/</a></div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Ben Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ben@generik.ca" target="_blank">ben@generik.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="">On 5/12/2014 8:16 PM, maxigas wrote:<br>
> I would argue that everything that came after hackerspaces is merely<br>
> capitalising on the struggles and works of hackers to invent an<br>
> attitude to technology which prooved to be immensely innovative and<br>
> incredibly excititing, while deluting its politics and denying their<br>
> roots because they don't have to figth for it the same way any more.<br>
<br>
</div>This is where you lost me. What has (detrimentally) changed now that the<br>
concept of hackerspaces is becoming popular? I don't believe any space<br>
has ever clung to the exact ideals and philosophies of another. Do you<br>
believe that new spaces don't need to fight for existence?<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Ben<br>
</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">_______________________________________________<br>
Discuss mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:Discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org">Discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org</a><br>
<a href="http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a><br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Edward L. Platt<div><a href="http://elplatt.com" target="_blank">http://elplatt.com</a></div><div><a href="http://civic.mit.edu/users/elplatt" target="_blank">http://civic.mit.edu/users/elplatt</a></div>
<div><a href="http://i3detroit.com" target="_blank">http://i3detroit.com</a></div><div><a href="http://twitter.com/elplatt" target="_blank">@elplatt</a></div></div>
</div>
</div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Discuss mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org">Discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss">http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>