« En hommage à John Perry Barlow, décédé mercredi, Olivier Ertzscheid a écrit une nouvelle version du texte de 1996, devenu emblématique des cyberutopies libertaires. »
►http://www.liberation.fr/debats/2018/02/09/une-nouvelle-declaration-d-independance-du-cyberespace_1628377
A propos de John Perry Barlow, Seenthis, The Grateful Dead et The WELL
►https://www.well.com
▻https://ia801502.us.archive.org/14/items/grateful_dead-2018/grateful_dead.jpeg?cnt=0
En réponse à ►https://seenthis.net/messages/667401 d’ @arno
Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.
Aujourd’hui les manifestes ne sont guere d’intérêt pour les jeunes. C’est la la conclusion que j’ai tiré de la rencontre avec des étudiants de la création multimedia à qui j’ai eu l’honneur d’enseigner les systèmes de publication sur internet. Du côté des militants politiques c’est pareil en ce qui concerne le choix et la maîtrise des logiciels pour leur publications.
Nous, nous sommes les enfants du mariage entre les idées libertaires et les révolutions européennes à l’ère digitale. Nous avons grandi à une époque extraordinaire quand se croisaient le monde ancien et l’ère digitale post-communiste. Nous avons assisté et participé à ses guerres analogues, à ses luttes des classes, nous avons adopté ses modèles de liberté antagonistes et ses musiques bruyantes. Nous avons bâti les premières marches de l’échelle digitale avec JPB et ses amis. Nous avons connu l’époque quand l’internet consistait dans une centaine de serveurs nationaux et quelques milliers dans le reste du monde. C’était notre internet. Les admins étaient nos copains qui restaient au téléphone avec nous pendant des heures quand il fallait implémenter un changement de config important. Tout était encore à faire et il n’y avait que nous qui pouvaient le faire.
Aujourd’hui est notre The WELL que nous utilison pour créer notre internet à nous. Voilà l’héritage de JPB.
Bon, après ce discours il est temps d’écouter un des derniers concerts des Grateful Dead avec Jerry Garcia.
Grateful Dead - The Spectrum - 3-17-95 - Full Show
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9iJ21xbYqc
The WELL
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_WELL
The Whole Earth ’Lectronic Link, normally shortened to The WELL, is one of the oldest virtual communities in continuous operation. As of June 2012, it had 2,693 members.
Home > The WELL
►https://www.well.com
Why is conversation so treasured on The WELL? Why did members of this community band together to buy the site in 2012? Check out the story of The WELL.
The Internet Age Began on August 9, 1995
►http://www.litkicks.com/AugustNine
Two separate things happened on August 9, 1995, both by chance emerging from Northern California though they had little else in common. The first was a scheduled event: the initial public offering (IPO) by Netscape, a startup tech firm designed to make software to power the Internet.
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I remember walking through the hallway at work that morning, probably heading for a coffee refill, when I saw a clump of co-workers and magazine editors talking anxiously. I thought they were talking about the Netscape IPO, but they weren’t. “Jerry Garcia died,” one of the editors said to me. “We need to replace the front page and get a new headline up, stat.”
Jerry Garcia. This one hit home.
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Nobody said “going viral” yet by the summer of 1995, but that’s exactly what Jerry Garcia’s death did, and it was pretty much the biggest anything had gone viral anywhere up to this point.
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The Grateful Dead’s influence on the evolving culture of the Internet has always been a godsend, and still is. When music-sharing became a way of life with the advent of Napster a few years later, and when online publishers began to give content away for free, many smart observers realized that the Grateful Dead (who had always allowed fans to freely create and share concert recordings) were the greatest success model in the world for a profitable long-term business cycle based on peer-to-peer sharing. The positive and peaceful philosophy the band had always stood for seemed to fit the Internet’s optimistic emerging culture as well.
John Perry Barlow, Internet Pioneer, 1947-2018 | Electronic Frontier Foundation
►https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/john-perry-barlow-internet-pioneer-1947-2018
Barlow knew that new technology could create and empower evil as much as it could create and empower good. He made a conscious decision to focus on the latter: "I knew it’s also true that a good way to invent the future is to predict it. So I predicted Utopia, hoping to give Liberty a running start before the laws of Moore and Metcalfe delivered up what Ed Snowden now correctly calls ’turn-key totalitarianism.’”
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace | Electronic Frontier Foundation
►https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence
by John Perry Barlow, Davos, Switzerland, February 8, 1996
John Perry Barlow
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The Grateful Dead
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Jerry Garcia Band
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un manifeste d’une naïveté confondante, et qui ne veut strictement rien dire.
Justement, tu en fais ce que tu veux ;-)
You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.
Là par contre ce n’est pas dépourvu de sens ; en plus c’est du rock’n’roll, JPB sur son ranch en train de traire les vaches, et qu’il refuse que le gouvernement s’y mêle, c’est une belle image allégorique pour la liberté, non ?
Autrement c’est vrai l’histoire avec le néoibéralisme, mais bof, pas la peine de tout prendre trop sérieusement. On sait que le vieux était un peu réac, mais son manifeste c’était un beau texte, un truc sentimental quoi.
Oui, oui, je sais, la CIA payait des écrivains pour qu’ils arrêtent de dire des choses contre les #USA, etc. - mais tu ne critiques pas Bach parce qu’il était religieux, pas vrai ?
L’ironie de l’histoire c’est qu’aujourd’hui les vaches sont télécommandées par internet ;-)
Le rôle joué par l’évangélisme internet dans la victoire du néo-libéralisme est toujours incompris par beaucoup de gens à gauche.
Coup d’État contre Allende, Chicago Boys, 1973.
Margaret Thatcher, première Ministre en 1979.
Milton Friedman, prix Nobel d’économie en 1979.
Ronald Reagan élu en 1981.
Georges Stigler, prix Nobel d’économie en 1982.
Tournant de la rigueur de Mitterrand en 1983
etc.
Quand commence l’« évangélisme internet » ?
Plus sérieusement, comme je l’écrivais dans mon message sur le sujet :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/667401
dans mon souvenir l’« évangélisme internet » en France était critique de l’espace libertarien américain (même si, à l’époque, ce n’était pas un courant très connu en France). Pour notre petite chapelle, c’est peut-être aussi pour ça qu’on a voulu faire notre propre Manifeste, et pas s’aligner sur une traduction de la Déclaration de Barlow.
Et paradoxalement, j’ai toujours ressenti que ceux qui agitaient le chiffon route du « libéral libertaire » pour sauver « nos valeurs », l’utilisaient justement pour flinguer la possibilité d’un usage progressiste et social de la liberté d’expression, tout en renforçant l’usage purement mercantile du Net.
Qu’il repose en paix.
Ses propes acolytes ne le laisseront pas reposer longtemps avant de le sortir de sa tombe pour en faire leur zombie pour les basses besognes idéologiques. A ce stade il ne restera pas grand chose du hippie et le « farmer » réactionnaire brandira so revolver pour éliminer tous les défenseur d’un réseau libre au service des peuples du monde.
The Internet Age Began on August 9, 1995
►http://www.litkicks.com/AugustNine
Two separate things happened on August 9, 1995, both by chance emerging from Northern California though they had little else in common. The first was a scheduled event: the initial public offering (IPO) by Netscape, a startup tech firm designed to make software to power the Internet.
...
I remember walking through the hallway at work that morning, probably heading for a coffee refill, when I saw a clump of co-workers and magazine editors talking anxiously. I thought they were talking about the Netscape IPO, but they weren’t. “Jerry Garcia died,” one of the editors said to me. “We need to replace the front page and get a new headline up, stat.”
In the serie Halt And Catch Fire, season 3 they describe a time with networks, services, client/server. But no Internet. That’s the late 80’s.
But years later, it ends with 3 new things, building the prospective Internet : new protocols (http and html), new ideas (Navigator of the Cern - Europe) and new paradigms (new things but no goal, no purpose… that’s the liberty).
As said by Joe MacMillan. It’s a door to a new lighting world to be build.
▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tim_Berners-Lee§ion=3#L.27invention_du_World_Wide_
Tim Berners-Lee:
Je n’ai fait que prendre le principe d’hypertexte et le relier au principe du TCP et du DNS et alors – boum ! – ce fut le World Wide Web !
Internet a été inventé sur CETTE machine :
Je m’oppose fortement à l’idée que le WWW constitue l’essentiel de l’internet. Le HTTP n’est qu’un protocole parmi d’autres et devrait être traité en conséquence. Ce qui est intéressant dans cet article c’est l’amalgame d’idées libertaires à l’américaine avec le soi disant progrès technique. Il est un artefact idéologique qui ouvre une vue sur le développement historique.
How an Army of Deadheads (And Their LSD) Invented Silicon Valley | WIRED
▻https://www.wired.com/2016/04/heads-jesse-jarnow-excerpt
The Internet is a far-off unsettled place in the ’80s, more a collection of various text-based technologies that don’t add up to much in most places. But, yet, here are these Deadheads, new kinds of citizens.
Take, for example, Gumby. Gumby is an appropriately heady figure among the early Deadhead digerati. “He basically bounced between MIT and the AI lab at Stanford,” remembers dead.dis@sail mailing list founder Paul Martin. “He was just a good hacker who hadn’t actually had any training in any of the AI stuff, but would really work hard at swinging code and making something work.”
Gumby is connected and on the go, reaching for a new form of digital harmony. “Gumby was the kind of person who was back and forth, you couldn’t just call him on the phone,” Paul Martin says. “You just had no idea where he was going to be that week, and email was a way around that problem.” Once, when working in Austin in the mid-1980s, Gumby departs for Dead tour, the whole tour.
In each city, Gumby connects with a head at a local computer lab. Never a partier, Gumby’s postshow routine involves going immediately to a terminal and posting a set list. The tour happens to end in Austin, where he’s living at the time, and he happens to go into work that day, where he encounters his boss.
“We haven’t seen you much,” the boss man says. “Well, I’ve been thinking,” he half bluffs.
“Thinking about what?” and Gumby spells it out on the whiteboard. Without really working at it, he’d untangled the whole problem in his head over the previous weeks, following the Dead, listening to the Dead, breathing the Dead. The Dead’s long jams, either experienced live or on tape, are good for thinking, Garcia’s solos unfolding with crystal themes and unexpected variations.
Jerry Garcia’s Free Market | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
▻http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1994/7/19/jerry-garcias-free-market-pbib-just
1994 - le rêve d’un capitalisme pur et sain.
I just returned from a convention of young capitalists in Washington. They came from all over the nation and from a number of foriegn lands to Fitzgerald Kennedy stadium on the banks of the Potomac river to hold a workshop on how lassiez-faire capitalism can be an efficient, benevolent, happy way to spend a life.
Jerry Garcia was the keynote speaker, or vocalist, as the case may be.
The gathering, of course, was a two-night stand by the Grateful Dead, who are currently out on their annual summer tour
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But the Deadhead was hungry. Fortunately, he had many options down in the parking lot. Other Deadheads, in need of gas money to the next shows in Pittsburgh, had gone to Safeway and bought bagels, cream cheese and sandwich material. Tabouli, falafels and other exotic delights were made to order by chefs who made up in love what they lacked in equipment. But in the end the Deadhead was sold by the faded blue in a young woman’s washedout eyes while she mouthed “One grilled cheese sandwich, just for you.” Sure, the ingredients weren’t worth more than 20 cents, but the profits would be all be poured right into the gas tank of the rusting VW Bus behind her makeshift kitchen. You could hear it in her soft, “Thanks a lot, man.”
Drugs could easily be purchased, and the dealers would gladly give a sample of the goods to anyone who looked like they were seriously interested. Beer flowed freely as well, with service “Wait, I’ll reach way down here so you get the coldest one we got, buddy” figured into a markup that would be standard at any bar.
People shared what they had with those who had not. They passed bowls, ballons, set lists and stories.
Clothing could be purchased as well. Most of the shirts were so original and beautiful they made the Deadhead want to buy them all, from the simplest peace symbol to the intricate fusion of Sesame Street characters and the Shakedown Street album cover. And only 15 dollars, half of what you would pay for a garment commemortating your presence at one of the Eagles premium rehersal sessions that are passing for concerts this summer.
There was no effort to crack down on “unlicensed” merchandise, nor was there any effort to check for health violations in the Hibachis framed in blue tapestries on an rickety table. No one was getting rich, they were just getting to the next show and feeding and clothing fellow humans in the process. Unrestrained capitalism, without fetter or regulation turns ugly when loosed upon industrial production.
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV-2EJnfzjY
Grateful Dead - Dark Star / The Other One / Dark Star / Wharf Rat / St Stephen, Recorded Live: 12/31/1978 - Winterland (San Francisco, CA)#USA #économie #musique #capitalisme #internet #histoire #grateful_dead
C’était bien avant le #numérique | Lloyd Shepherd
►http://owni.fr/2011/11/15/cetait-bien-avant-le-numerique
La tentation du « c’était mieux avant » sous la plume de Lloyd Shepherd, qui recherche dans les sensations du monde numérique d’aujourd’hui des pistes pour ne pas se laisser engloutir par la #nostalgie.
#Culture #Traduction #bruce_springsteen #culture_numérique #grateful_dead #iTunes