Volker Grassmuck
Volker Grassmuck is a media researcher & freelance writer. He has done research on artificial intelligence, garbage, otaku, the Turing Galaxy, the history of media and identity discourse in Japan, and on the knowledge order of digital media. He is currently researching at the Helmholtz Center for Cultural Technology of Humboldt University Berlin, curating the event series The Wizards of OS‰, and networking media cultures as part of the group mikro.
Volker Grassmuck's website
mikro.org
Wizards of OS
Abstract
Letting Loose the Lite: Stamping out Process to Make Way for Products
The Internet provides the conditions for personal, group and mass communication. Historically emerged in an academic setting and populated by non- and decidedly anti-capitalist cultures, it still provides space for them today, as the free software movement powerfully demonstrates. The problem is not that the Bertelsmanns and Beate Uhses are also coming online but that the Content or more precisely the Rights Industry (today's designation for the Culture Industry) wants to re-do the whole architecture of the Internet.
