RespectRight – Respecting the work – Nederlands
De zegeningen van internet zijn talloos.
Als ik me hier alleen beperk tot de rol die internet speelt bij de verspreiding van kennis bijvoorbeeld, durf ik te spreken van een droomscenario. Nog nooit hebben zoveel mensen eenvoudig toegang tot zoveel kennis. En in veel gevallen nog gratis ook.
Ik tel de zegeningen en ben tevreden.
Maar.
Er is een maar.
Wij proberen ons brood te verdienen met het uitgeven van boeken, voornamelijk wetenschappelijke publicaties. Naast de papieren versie geven we ook boeken uit als ebook.
We willen graag klantvriendelijk werken en kiezen daarom voor een gebruikersvriendelijke oplossing waarbij de klant voor gebruik niet eerst software moet downloaden. Ook kiezen wij niet voor software waarmee de klant beperkt wordt in de mogelijkheden om het gekochte op verschillende apparaten te zetten.
Natuurlijk, je kunt de boeken ook een watermerk geven zodat de weg naar de klant herleid kan worden wanneer het boek ineens op een site opduikt.
Maar dan er is nog een maar: voor alle beveiligingssystemen is de oplossing om dat systeem te kraken het eerste dat opduikt als je in een zoekprogramma ‘beveiliging ebook’ intikt.
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RespectRight – Respecting the work – Deutsch
Gesegnet sei das Internet.
Würde ich mich hier auf dessen Rolle im Verbreiten von Wissen beschränken, so könnte ich von einem Traum-Szenario sprechen. Nie zuvor hatten so viele Menschen so einfach Zugang zu so viel Wissen - in vielen Fällen sogar kostenlos.
Ich fühle mich gesegnet und bin zufrieden.
Und doch….
Eine Randbemerkung.
Wir versuchen, unseren Lebensunterhalt durch die Herausgabe von Büchern zu verdienen. In erster Linie handelt es sich um wissenschaftliche Publikationen, neben der klassischen Buch-Form auch als E-Buch. Da uns der Kunde wichtig ist, entscheiden wir uns für kundenfreundliche Lösungen, das heißt er hat ohne extra Software Zugang zu unseren Produkten.
Zudem wählen wir ein Format, welches dem Kunden ermöglicht, das Erworbene auf verschiedene Datenträger zu laden.
Natürlich könnten wir unsere Bücher mit einem Wasserzeichen kennzeichnen; sollte eines unserer Bücher plötzlich kostenlos im Netz auftauchen, könnte der ursprüngliche Käufer gefunden werden.
Und – noch eine Randbemerkung – auf der Suche nach Maßnahmen, unsere Bücher vor unbefugtem Gebrauch zu schützen, finden wir als erstes, wie dieselben Vorkehrungen geknackt werden können.
The Ndebele Nation
With an Introduction by Milton Keynes
The Ndebele of Zimbabwe, who today constitute about twenty percent of the population of the country, have a very rich and heroic history. It is partly this rich history that constitutes a resource that reinforces their memories and sense of a particularistic identity and distinctive nation within a predominantly Shona speaking country. It is also partly later developments ranging from the colonial violence of 1893-4 and 1896-7 (Imfazo 1 and Imfazo 2); Ndebele evictions from their land under the direction of the Rhodesian colonial settler state; recurring droughts in Matabeleland; ethnic forms taken by Zimbabwean nationalism; urban events happening around the city of Bulawayo; the state-orchestrated and ethnicised violence of the 1980s targeting the Ndebele community, which became known as Gukurahundi; and other factors like perceptions and realities of frustrated economic development in Matabeleland together with ever-present threats of repetition of Gukurahundi-style violence—that have contributed to the shaping and re-shaping of Ndebele identity within Zimbabwe.
Hannah Arendt’s Theory of Totalitarianism – Part One
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt wrote The Origins of Totalitarianism in 1949, by which time the world had been confronted with evidence of the Nazi apparatus of terror and destruction. The revelations of the atrocities were met with a high degree of incredulous probing despite a considerable body of evidence and a vast caché of recorded images. The individual capacity for comprehension was overwhelmed, and the nature and extent of these programmes added to the surreal nature of the revelations. In the case of the dedicated death camps of the so-called Aktion Reinhard, comparatively sparse documentation and very low survival rates obscured their significance in the immediate post-war years. The remaining death camps, Majdanek and Auschwitz, were both captured virtually intact. They were thus widely reported, whereas public knowledge of Auschwitz was already widespread in Germany and the Allied countries during the war.[1] In the case of Auschwitz, the evidence was lodged in still largely intact and meticulous archives. Nonetheless it had the effect of throwing into relief the machinery of destruction rather than its anonymous victims, for the extermination system had not only eliminated human biological life but had also systematically expunged cumulative life histories and any trace of prior existence whatsoever, ending with the destruction of almost all traces of the dedicated extermination camps themselves, just prior to the Soviet invasion.
Hannah Arendt’s Theory of Totalitarianism – Part Two
Hannah Arendt
Ideology and terror: The experiment in total domination
In chapter two of Hannah Arendt’s Response to the Crisis of her Time it was argued that Arendt’s typology of government rests on the twin criteria of organisational form and a corresponding ‘principle of action’. In the post-Origins essay On the Nature of Totalitarianism, Arendt argues that Western political thought has customarily distinguished between ‘lawful’ and ‘lawless’, or ‘constitutional’ and ‘tyrannical’ forms of government (Arendt 1954a: 340). Throughout Occidental history, lawless forms of government, such as tyranny, have been regarded as perverted by definition. Hence, if
… the essence of government is defined as lawfulness, and if it is understood that laws are the stabilizing forces in the public affairs of men (as indeed it always has been since Plato invoked Zeus, the god of the boundaries, in his Laws), then the problem of movement of the body politic and the actions of its citizens arises. (Arendt 1979: 466-7)
‘Lawfulness’ as a corollary of constitutional forms of government is a negative criterion inasmuch as it prescribes the limits to but cannot explain the motive force of human actions: ‘the greatness, but also the perplexity of laws in free societies is that they only tell what one should not, but never what one should do’ (ibid.: 467). Arendt, accordingly, lays great store by Montesquieu’s discovery of the ‘principle of action’ ruling the actions of both government and governed: ‘virtue’ in a republic, ‘honour’ in monarchy, and ‘fear’ in tyrannical forms of government (Arendt 1954a: 330; Arendt 1979: 467-8).
Hannah Arendt – Zur Person – Full Interview (with English Subtitles)
Hannah Arendt in the Rozenberg Quarterly
Anthony Court – Hannah Arendt’s Theory of Totalitarianism. Part One: http://rozenbergquarterly.com/?p=3099
Anthony Court - Hannah Arendt’s Theory of Totalitarianism. Part Two: http://rozenbergquarterly.com/?p=3115
Nima Emami – Hannah Arendt and The Green Movement: http://rozenbergquarterly.com/?p=563
