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Greetings All,<br>
<br>
Geert Lovink has kindly asked me to make some opening remarks on the
future on YouTube and online video at the forthcoming Video Vortex
#6.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfaht3twLFo">This video</a>
is the first in a series of video preambles to my opening remarks in
Amsterdam this March.<br>
<br>
In a somewhat incoherent manner I begin by suggesting that the
Internet industries and the commercial media sector may not have
much control over the future of online video. <br>
<br>
The social significance of the screen was shaped by a very
particular types of structures in the 20th. The structures may take
a back seat to the role of the amateur in shaping video practices as
we move deeper into the crisis of capitalism.<br>
<br>
We have to be careful to to be taken in by the corporate system's
ego.<br>
<br>
They know not what they do, but they are desperate in trying to do
it.<br>
<br>
Dr. Strangelove<br>
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