Talk31 min
McKenzie Wark - Telesthesia: How Class and Power work in the Post-Internet Age
Berkeley Center for New Media · University of California, Berkeley
About
Telesthesia: How Class and Power work in the Post-Internet Age The most resonant slogan of Occupy Wall Street is "we are the 99%!" But who are the one percent? The popular answer is "Wall Street." But to think about this more closely, perhaps the question to ask is: how do the most advanced means of computing and communication of our time create new class relations? Perhaps this isn't your grand-parents capitalism we are now living in. Perhaps there are intra-class struggles within the ruling class for which we do not yet have good social maps. Perhaps there are new kinds of class formation outside the ruling class. What do the new relations of communication mean for the creation of art and culture?
The talk
Credits and licence
- Institution
- University of California, Berkeley
- Department
- Art, Technology and Culture Colloquium
- Speaker
- Berkeley Center for New Media
- Year
- 2012
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Subjects
- Society and politics, Art, architecture and design
- Source
- Internet Archive
- Licence
- Internet Archive states no licence for it. Internet Archive's terms
- Who can watch
- Internet Archive gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Teens profiles and older, judged from what the source says about it. How courses are placed