Caroline Nevejan
Two weeks before the event the doorbell rang in Paradiso. At the door was Charly Jungbauer. "I guess you are in trouble having promised this network, and so on, I like it, I will make your network happen... " And he and his gang sat in Amsterdam for two weeks in the hot summer of 1989 stripping cables, making hubs, providing a network. Only when Charly Jungbauer appeared at the door did I realise the different specialties we needed to make this work.
TECHNICAL IDENTITY AND WORDS THAT ACT
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ACADEMIA
Skills impact identity
Before the GHP, Paradiso had an Ethernet installed in the building, at the time this was already…
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ACADEMIA
Technological literacy
The people who were reporting in the edit group were all social scientists and/or journalists. The…
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ACADEMIA
Words that act
When I was preparing for the GHP I was working closely with people who knew how to operate…
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ACADEMIA
Words can be deeds
In 1955, J.L. Austin formulated the notion of 'performativity' in a series of lectures at Harvard…