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Acknowledgements
process, but to speed it along. By accepting responsibility
for the arguments expressed here and making its current
form traceable in what I hope will be subject to further
revisions, by myself and by others.
Still, the murmur of discourse is not all. There are
individals and settings that have been particularly
important. One is nettime which, even after close to
two decades, remains for me one of the most inspiring
groups of people, many of them friends by now, for
sophisticated, non-disciplinary work in trying to
understand our techno-cultural conditions from within
and in real time. Another is the loosely organised
research project Techno Politics to which I contribute
a little and from which I take a lot. Then there is the
sprawling free culture movement, which has been
inspiring and upsetting me for the last decade in very
productive ways, particularly at one of its most restless
nodes, the Free Culture Forum in Barcelona. The same
holds true for the commons movement, and one of its
most productive nodes, the P2P Foundation. But the
world is not all distributed networks. Important for my
grounding are the World Information Institute which
forms my home base in Vienna and my students at
Zurich University of the Arts, who help me understand
what is obvious to them. The book has been written in
the nexus of Mute magazine and the Post-Media Lab,
Leuphana Universty, demonstrating that longterm
independent collaboration and institutional work can
coincide. Beyond solidarity, there is love and without it,
nothing matters. I’m immensely grateful for those who
bring it into my life and enable me to bring it into theirs.
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