{"id":42,"date":"2008-05-22T18:51:58","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T18:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yetiinabox.wordpress.com\/?p=42"},"modified":"2008-05-22T18:51:58","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T18:51:58","slug":"secondlifelike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/2008\/05\/22\/secondlifelike\/","title":{"rendered":"Secondlifelike"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been exploring Second Life for a teaching project at Aberdeen. There are a staggering number of good and helpful people and resources out there, and it would be immoral not to record them as I encounter them.<\/p>\n

This<\/a> is a very thoughtful essay by Diane Carr of the London Knowledge Lab on adapting to Second Life as a teaching environment.<\/p>\n

NPRIL (see the blogroll o’er yonder) is a wonderful demonstration of what new things a virtual environment can offer.<\/p>\n

Sadly, I have not yet encountered a sustained critique, in the vein of political ecology, of Second Life. The underlying trans-Ayn-Randy capitalism is depressing in the extreme: I know of no way to link, say, a farmers’ co-operative to economic practices within Second Life. It’s funny how the internet community has, as one of its underlying social behaviours, the assumption that everything should be a commodity. Taussig would be thrilled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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