Three pithy quotes: "Information Please"!

p. 158: "...I urge a Nietzschean perspective that explores the good and the bad in the culture of the virtual. The moral positions of the master and the slave, which Nietzsche analyzed so trenchantly, take as their communication context oral and print culture. Moralities of good and bad, and good and evil, growing out of these contexts apply at best partially to information society.... He proposed a "transvaluation of all values"with an eye to the enhancement of "life" ( italics mine)[ Nietzsche 1966]. While his project contains many difficulties, his method of cultural transformation may serve as a starting point for rethinking ethics in an information age" AND... (Nietzsche)"One must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star"-- Nietzsche's moral elite charismatically (italics his) and without force (PULL!) draws others within its moral circle, thereby enhancing the "life"or affirmation of life for all."

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p. 173: "The home has become infinitely permeable to the outside world, with the result that the coherence of the culture of the nuclear family (i mine) has been fragmented into what I call the segmented family (Poster 1991). Each member of the family [for "member of the family" substitute here "student in the classroom- as per Tuesday night's discussion about the lack of a 'mainstream' identity among students--- as evidenced by classroom discussions of films seen/ music heard etc.] now sustains a separate cultural world (i mine) within the family."

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p. 197: "Copyright law (mine) is the chief means by which large corporations in general and music firms in particular attempt to control culture ("). In the words of Kembrew McLeod, "Intellectual property law reinforces a condition whereby individuals and corporations with greater access to capital can maintain and increase unequal social relations" (McLeod 2001)..." Digitization threatens the media corporations because one no longer requires great amounts of capital to produce, reproduce, modify, and distribute cultural objects... Copyright was instituted to promote innovation in society, to improve the quality of life for all."
( from Peter Barnes' Capitalism 3.0: "... the U.S. Constitution gave Congress authority "to promote the Progress of Science and Useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." Shortly thereafter, in 1790, the first American copyright law gave authors the same deal as in Britain: exclusive rights for fourteen years, with an option to renew for another fourteen. After that, their work entered the public domain.The idea wasn't so much to expand intellectual property rights as to set boundaries on them. Indeed, what we call intellectual property today was then considered a monopoly privilege granted by the state, not a right belonging to a creator" (119).
The word which keeps popping in my head is "territorialities".
Poster, p. 33: "Postcoloniality depended on a stable geography of nations" (and of values, of religious proscriptions, of family structure, of property, of law--) "... the nation remained the matrix of the political... the nation state and the corporation ... individuals no longer form identities exclusively through local practices."
What all of this is saying to me is that real estate, including geography and cultural practices are shifting from the analog version to an unanchored digital one. We are truly adrift in some new sea whose boundaries shift with tide and storm---- both forseen and unforseen events.