Encontrei esse parágrafo no relato de Trebor Scholz sobre a conferência The internet as playground and factory. Ele comenta a fala de Brian Holmes:
Holmes also asserted that ICT and education in the third world are “a factory for producing the subjects of communicative capitalism.” (Holmes, http://is.gd/1vKmr) Jonathan Beller supported this line of argumentation by drawing on classic media critiques, from Enzensberger’s “Anyone who expects to be emancipated by technological hardware or by a system of hardware however structured, is the victim of an obscure belief in progress" (1970) to Baudrillard’s "terrorism of the code" (1972). (Beller, http://is.gd/5iUSy) Holmes also suggested that focusing on the Internet may altogether distract us from the most important issues of our time.
É uma crítica fácil e de certa forma vazia (afinal, qual é a alternativa? abolir os programas de ICT?), mas não deixa de ser importante pensar no contexto mais profundo das coisas.
