NOTES Wittgenstein, Korzybski language structures reality without defining things Who Controls the internet?

? Parable about cyberspace pg. 16 two ideas one being an influential and charismatic metaphor, that of the Internet as a place. a constructive vision of governance liberated from physical and national identity 181 - There's no reason to doubt that most people's lives are dominated not by law but by social norms, morality, and the market, or that the Internet is deeply influenced by its code. But the critical question is whether such sources of rules and governance can function apart from an underlying system of territorial government and physical coercion. Our book had suggested they cannot. 182 ebay appears to be self governing despite an elaborate hand-in-glove relationship with the police and other government officials Fascinating looking at this history of the internet, and in particular from the vantage point of 2006, before Facebook really took off. Page 183 talks about how cultures cluster locally. This interaction is fascinating. Law & Internet Cultures 9-11Initial reaction to defamation case Dow v Gutnick very hostile likening Australia to a totalitarian state in its attempt to allow Gutnick to sue the US based publisher Dow Jones. 16 quoting Foucault - We must cease once and for all to describe the effects of power in negative terms: it 'excludes', it 'represses', it 'censors', it 'abstracts', it 'masks', it 'conceals'. In fact power produces; it produces reality; it produces domains of objects and rituals of truth. This type of self-censorship is becoming more and more evident and relevant. 19 - pre-digested assumptions - re defamation and copyright You Are Not A Gadget 4 - Technologies are extensions of ourselves...our identities can be shifted by the quirks of gadgets. It is impossible to work with information technology without also engaging in social engineering. 5-6 - We make up extensions to your being, like remote eyes and ears (web-cams and mobile phones) and expanded memory (the world of details you can search for online). These become the structures by which you connect to the world and other people. These structures in turn can change how you conceive of yourself and the world. We tinker with your philosophy by direct manipulation of your cognitive experience, not indirectly, through argument. It takes only a tiny group of engineers to create technology that can shape the entire future of human experience with incredible speed. Therefore, crucial arguments about the human relationship with technology should take place between developers and users before such direct manipulations are designed.

Babie Spatiality 7 Babie outlines Soja's ontological trialectic which places spatiality next to the traditionally considered perspectives of the historical and social aspects of property. Dreyfus heidegger 305 - Heidegger's concern is the human distress caused by the technological understanding of being, rather than the destruction caused by specific technologies. Facebook, as a privately owned entity, can presumably include or exclude people based on any laws that apply to corporations. Its code constitutes part of this system, its laws. The software itself channels a users behaviour, the code substitutes for the law, creating a kind of perfect enforcement.1

1 Jonathan Zittrain, Roger Brownsword and Karen Yeung (eds.), Regulating Technologies: Legal Futures, Regulatory Frames and Technological Fixes (Hart Publishing, 2008). 129 this is a whole chapter on this type of enforcement.