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dissertation in the national library, also available as pdf, but only in german. still researching in the national archieves of austria for new project. might be finished in may.

excerpt :: from session/takeover symposion sept. 01. referent a little drunk from opening-party, but ambituos >> abstract from whole session coming soon:

The so-called digital revolution does nothing to change existing sociopolitical relationships. The unjust conditions remain intact and are even exacerbated by new methods of oppression and censorship. Now, they are being joined by new inequalities of access to the new technologies and the possibilities they open up.

The so-called digital revolution instead means an intensification of capitalist competitive mechanisms in postindustrial societies and economies. Since legal systems have not adjusted to the new, highly variable developments in conditions of ownership and ways in which producers and distributors of digital products conduct their business on a world-wide basis, these global players repeatedly succeed in employing cleverly devised horizontal and vertical integration and syndication tactics to erect quasi-monopolistic or oligopolistic structures and to get around national antitrust laws. As a matter of fact these players also pay little or no taxes at all. Countries on the verge of economic takeoff and developing nations thus continue to be almost completely excluded ex ante from the so-called digital revolution or, in certain cases, come to constitute labor pools for those multinational corporations that then practically colonize these regions and keep them under their thumb with licensing regulations and agreements that let the companies do pretty much what they please. Here, open source movements represent the only hope.....to be continued > i am a stupid bastard. always on the road. current work on the austrias forgotten nazis continues!