SI28-Radio-Worm/Week2
Summary here
Hosts
Daan, Tommi, Barbara, Kiki
Broadcast
Listen to our broadcast here
Shownotes
Pad of class notes during radio show
Full interview with Brewster Kahle
Full interview with Mary Kahle
Recap of the show
Introduction
Session 1 | Protocols & Publishing Freedom
- ♫ Surveillance Capitalism - Evan Greer
- We played an excerpt of the Brewster Kahle interview specifically about his views on mega-publishing-corporations and how we can fight back against them.
- Barbara: Katherine Hayles argued that you cannot analyze a piece of media without its medium and I think Brewster Kahle’s examples show it also can’t be removed from the systems in which it’s published. DRM (digital rights management) in games is like putting a lock on your files that you can only open by connecting to the storefront, its a license not ownership. Alternative DRM-free storefronts in the games industry: itch.io and GOG.com. But even they can’t escape outside pressure from mastercard to censor “violent or pornographic content” from their stores. How do we protect protocols from this outside corporate influence?
- We played Ursula K Le Guin's speech about defending art over profits.
- Barbara: Brewster Kahle and Le Guin both signal major problems with the publishing industry but while Kahle sees a regulated market and competition as a good thing but the monopolies as a problem, Le Guin argues profit incentives are inherently against making art and wants us to think outside of the capitalist system.
- ♫ De Machine - Sef ft. Abel
- Barbara: The song is about feeling frustrated to have to participate inside this system’s “machine” and the passivity of everybody with it. But in the last verse, they add a twist, saying: "Throw a coin in my mouth and then the show will start. But that’s how I get by and make a living. That’s the irony, I AM the machine."