The fact that these meetings aren't covered by mainstream media speaks volumes about how important "democracy" really is. The argument that the press cannot cover the meetings because of The Chatham House Rule simply doesn't hold water, because this is part of basic journalistic ethics when dealing with anonymous sources.
This is a quote from Prof Mike Peters' paper The Bilderberg Group and the project of European unification
Peter's discourse is very convoluted, and will not be accessible to those without a background in the history of Western philosophy, but nevertheless I think what he says is important. On the "paradigm of the end of individual creativity" see Genesis: The Last Individual Creative Act, which I wrote six months before this conference in which Peters is speaking. On the problems with the way modern research is done, and the nature of human knowledge as living knowledge shared and discussed openly, see this essay on Socialist Economics written in June 2015.
This also includes a discussion of what one could call "a creative meta-institution": the idea being that we could start by fostering colaboration between existing institutes of education on a global scale. On the subject of creative labor, particularly in technology, see this essay on developing secure communications technology. The term "cognitive capitalism" is a good one! The basis of this must be secure communications with tools to assist potential collaborators to objectively evaluate potential areas of collaboration, and to ensure that the capital flows are objectively optimised according to those evaluations. But Peters' statement about the Internet at 15 mins 1 sec is pure fantasy.
A liberal political digital economy my ass! It may look like that to some, but just wait 'til you get shut down! At 20 mins 53 secs, Peters talks about a "third space" of distributed cross-border knowledge which "stands outside the purview of the state."
The problem is that the existence of this cross-border knowledge is a serious threat to corrupt regimes, which is 99% of the governments in power today! Hence the need for states to engage in mass surveillance. This talk gives an idea of what it could be like to be under this level of state suppression. And, when you think about it, you do wonder how organisations like Wikileaks and The Intercept are even allowed to exist!
And in this excellent performance talk presentation Max Symuleski shows that such networks have been perceived as a threat to states since the late sixties at the latest, when Ant Farm and other "underground architecture" groups were operating in America and Europe. The fact that this video has 37 [update 27/6/2019: now 43] views after six months, and one "like", which is mine, gives you an idea of the problem!
And this talk given in 2016 shows that Peters is feeling the pressure too, alrhough it doesn't seem to bother him! This video has 112 views after two years.
At 14 mins 42 secs there is an interesting bit about "epistemic democracy" which is a term I'd never even heard before! It is associated with the American philosopher Elizabeth Anderson at University of Michigan.
This is a quote from Prof Mike Peters' paper The Bilderberg Group and the project of European unification
I believe that one of the key assumptions often made by structural Marxists, namely that the capitalist class is always divided into competing fractions which have no mechanisms for co-ordination other than the state, is not empirically sustainable. Part of this misconception, it could be said, derives from an over-literal understanding of the concept of the 'market' as constituting the only social relation amongst different fractions of capital. At least as far as the very large, and above all, the international (or as we would say in today's jargon, the ‘global’) corporations are concerned, this is definitely not the case: very sophisticated organs do exist whereby these capitalist interests can and do hammer out common lines of strategy. Bilderberg is one of these mechanisms.Here is a talk Peters gave in August 2013 on Radical Openness
Peter's discourse is very convoluted, and will not be accessible to those without a background in the history of Western philosophy, but nevertheless I think what he says is important. On the "paradigm of the end of individual creativity" see Genesis: The Last Individual Creative Act, which I wrote six months before this conference in which Peters is speaking. On the problems with the way modern research is done, and the nature of human knowledge as living knowledge shared and discussed openly, see this essay on Socialist Economics written in June 2015.
A liberal political digital economy my ass! It may look like that to some, but just wait 'til you get shut down! At 20 mins 53 secs, Peters talks about a "third space" of distributed cross-border knowledge which "stands outside the purview of the state."
And in this excellent performance talk presentation Max Symuleski shows that such networks have been perceived as a threat to states since the late sixties at the latest, when Ant Farm and other "underground architecture" groups were operating in America and Europe. The fact that this video has 37 [update 27/6/2019: now 43] views after six months, and one "like", which is mine, gives you an idea of the problem!
And this talk given in 2016 shows that Peters is feeling the pressure too, alrhough it doesn't seem to bother him! This video has 112 views after two years.
At 14 mins 42 secs there is an interesting bit about "epistemic democracy" which is a term I'd never even heard before! It is associated with the American philosopher Elizabeth Anderson at University of Michigan.
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