- From: Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net>
- Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 18:26:49 +0200
- To: PhiloWeb W3C <public-philoweb@w3.org>
Dear Philosphers of the Web, I wrote a short essay that looks at the Web from a co-immunological perspective taking on the concept from Peter Sloterdijk, and giving a technical basis to his concept of hyper-politics. It starts like this: [[ The Covid-19 global pandemic has taught us that immunology is not just a biological phenomenon, but a personal one requiring us to adopt hygienic practices, a social one and indeed with the closing of frontiers a geopolitical one. But it also breaks into the space of technology with requirements that we learn hygiene rules about reposting content, so as to limit transmission of false information about the virus. I will show how the concept of co-immunity developed by Peter Sloterdijk can give us a framework to understand this. The essay ends by developing an analysis of the immunological features of the internet and locate pieces that we need to then make a healthier World Wide Web. ]] https://medium.com/@bblfish/co-immunology-and-the-web-43379b46688e All the best, Henry Story https://co-operating.systems/
Received on Monday, 30 March 2020 16:27:04 UTC