tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3586711976735101794.post4933542167084396883..comments2016-11-30T17:43:27.338+00:00Comments on HEIJPLAAT 2086: UpdateAlinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01856078771138896000noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3586711976735101794.post-72807940444331954582016-11-30T17:43:27.338+00:002016-11-30T17:43:27.338+00:00Thanks Ken - those links are really helpful!Thanks Ken - those links are really helpful!Adam Hillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07851266689412811116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3586711976735101794.post-4563322132178085342016-11-20T16:51:08.928+00:002016-11-20T16:51:08.928+00:00Very interesting!
The 'Trust University'...Very interesting! <br /><br />The 'Trust University' proposal fits very well with the society we're envisioning, with multiple forms of property (state, co-operative, private, mutual etc) and poses a challenge to the 'neoliberal' university. On a cultural level, Paul Goodman's 1960s arguments on the 'community of scholars' as opposed to the university wedded to the military-industrial complex may be relevant here. (See, e.g., <a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2012/01/did-paul-goodman-change-your-life/" rel="nofollow">here</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Goodman" rel="nofollow">here</a>, <a href="https://libcom.org/book/export/html/55573" rel="nofollow">here</a> and <a href="http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/goodman/biblio.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> (note also his connection with architecture and urbanism). <br /><br />I liked the idea of the data bank as a piece of 'post-human architecture' but its rational function would have to be thought through carefully -- as in, why on earth would you build your server farm on-site, over water, and over rising water at that? We can rationalise this with the need for micro- or nanosecond transmission, but this would have to be balanced against the obvious physical security problems. Also, even without imagining exotic future discoveries and technological breakthroughs in data storage, we shouldn't project our images of banks of whirring servers seven decades into the future.<br /><br />Are there other technological requirements that might force RDM into building such a massive structure? Or could it be something that is left over from an earlier phase of development when huge server farms were required, but is now obsolete?<br />Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03493440163559858462noreply@blogger.com