May 2013
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April 2013
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when science ceased...
Margaret Thatcher was initially trained as a scientist, a chemist, at Oxford University. “One might have expectd her to oversee an expansion of science… Thatcher’s hard-nosed policies on privatization and manufacturing led to a reduction in research activity in the UK…” ((New Scientist April 13th 2013 - editorial)). They correctly recognize that her government was...
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Spectacular Changes (2) community unhinged and...
I think I initially misread the Roberto Esposito text Communitas (The Origin and destiny of community), for I imagined when i began reading it that the text was going to be, in a sense, a counter-text to the to the notion of community as broken, as inoperative in the face of the spectacle. Which is to say that I imagined it as presenting a case for community, for the commons against the control...
March 2013
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Spectacular changes... 'how to avoid it in the...
This is the short response to that question…
In the present as they are about to impose a new aspect of the spectacle into our lives, from the image, through language and now plastic manufactories into your home. This it seems to me is one of the rare moments in which a philosopher who speaks in a language that is yours is worth recognizing, a mere nod, a gesture of solidarity is...
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“The Internet is a surveillance state. Whether we admit it to ourselves or not,...”
– Opinion: The Internet is a surveillance state - CNN.com (via new-aesthetic)
Important post by Bruce Schneier,
we know what he is talking about but seldom think about it
one important question comes to mind, “what can we do about it?”
(via tsparks)
The integrated spectacle …
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Franciose Dastur ... Note 6...
…Then when i ask Heidegger what language will ever be capable of expressing this ecstatic Denken:
- A very simple language, he replies. Einie ganz einfache Sprache, whose rigour will consist less in the verbiage (Gerede) of an apparent technicity than in the absolute nakedness of expression. And Heidegger adds with a smile:
-in the future philosophical books will no longer be very large...
February 2013
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Francoise Dastur ... Note 4...
… the ‘dictatorship of the public realm’ to which whoever desires celebrity is entire subjected, to the point of having the feeling of total annihilation of their being when the public’s favor is list…The impasse to which this extreme form of alienation (comparable to what leads to the frantic search for power in the games of finance, of the political, or of...
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Francoise dastur ... note 2...
Hegel gave philosophical form to what appears to be an anthropological constant in his famous dialectic of master and slave by showing that in the struggle in which each puts his life at stake, whoever goes furthest in their disregard for death attains self-consciousness… (Dastur p29)
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Francine Dastur ... note 3
Our epoch is characterized by an ‘obsession with the other’ because it is profoundly marked by the development of individualism. There is an apparent paradox in this: the relation to the other becomes obsessive only when it is self-evident, only when a being-in-common or existence shared with others appears no longer as a factual given, but rather as a problem to resolve or a task to...
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Francoise Dastur... note 1....
Humans use their bodies differently depending on their societies, which attests to the fact that the body is not any way reducible to its merely biological functions…. The objectification of the body has been carried to its highest point in our hypertechnological societies… we ought not be surprised to see the idea of the supernumerary body appear in the mileu of cyberculture…...
“‘Amazon is predominantly a virtual company where you don’t get to see the...”
– Hating Amazon Is Not a Thing. Facebook on the Other Hand … (via courtenaybird)
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January 2013
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“we think any society is defined not so much by its contradictions as by its...”
– Deleuze, “Control and Becoming”.
http://www.generation-online.org/p/fpdeleuze3.htm (via rykalski)
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Multinational Corporations and the Control of...
The control of Ideology and discourse is rather complex…
Hewlett-Packard
Verizon Communications
Apple
International Business Machines
Microsoft
Boeing
PepsiCo
United Technologies
Intel
Amazon.com
Lockheed Martin
Coca-Cola
Cisco Systems
Walt Disney
Google
Honeywell International
Ingram Micro
Oracle
General Dynamics
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Internet culture spawned The Language of new media (Manovich), particularly the first generation of 1990s web culture. What this means is that the book is a product of a specific sliver of history when the production and distribution of knowledge were rather different than they are today. What was once a subversive medium is now a spectacle playground like any other… Galloway…
We...
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“… culture is history in representational form…“ (referencing Jameson) and ” I might propose a new name for this project, the control allegory…” (obliquely referencing Deleuze). Galloway preface to The Interface Effect…
December 2012
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“With the achievement of economic abundance, the concentrated result of social...”
– Debord, Society of the Spectacle 50 (via rykalski)
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A media list for 2012
On the whole not an unusual year for texts in this area, in amongst the boring and uninteresting some things to make one think…
Gabriele Pedulla’s In Broad Daylight (movies and spectators after the cinema) an excellent placing of cinema in a postmedia age. Perhaps it even asks where a post-cinema exists in a period when i travel on the train surrounded by people watching the...
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Social Media Report 2012: Social Media Comes of... →
“Social media and social networking are no longer in their infancy. Social media continues to grow rapidly, offering global consumers new and meaningful ways to engage with the people, events and brands that matter to them. According to Nielsen and NM Incite’s latest Social Media Report, consumers continue to spend more time on social networks than on any other category of sites—roughly 20...
November 2012
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Google transparency report... →
The analysts says … “We think it’s important to shine a light on how government actions could affect our users. When we first launched the Transparency Report in early 2010, there wasn’t much data out there about how governments sometimes hamper the free flow of information on the web. So we took our first step toward greater transparency by disclosing the number of government requests...
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“…using social technology as a business tool is unavoidable and, for many, a...”
– The Four Hundred—The Daily Grind Of Social Business (via smarterplanet)
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For impaitient web users a blink of an eye is to... →
“Remember when you were willing to wait a few seconds for a computer to respond to a click on a Web site or a tap on a keyboard? These days, even 400 milliseconds — literally the blink of an eye — is too long, as Google engineers have discovered. That barely perceptible delay causes people to search less…”
The need to quote Virillio from speed and politics or The Strategy of...
“It is public opinion which makes the magician and creates the power he wields....”
– Mauss, A General Theory of Magic, p50 (via rykalski)
Magic…
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“The tactic of credit works in tandem with that of personalisation to give...”
– Baudrillard, The System of Objects, p176
Social Technologies are never forgotten and are almost never fully excised from society once they have first been established. (via rykalski)
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DARPA wants a multi-band head-up display, which... →
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October 2012
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Spectacle Agambenian limits...
Giorgio Agamben argues that the Society of the Spectacle is so all pervading, the alienation it generates is so wide ranging that we are being offered a privileged look at something that is usually obscured by the messages themselves, the medium itself. Let’s be clear though that the medium here for Agamben is language. This in a sense is Agamben’s most obvious moment of relation to...
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Aftermath The Cultures of the Economic Crisis -...
When the network society theorists proposes where the state should invest public money, where the commons should be grown; they are quite explicit in saying that it should be invested in expanding the spectacle, the network, education, bandwidth, ICT and so on. The areas of the global economy which are the groundwork of the network society, rather than affordable housing, the physical...
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Global grasp, real fear
“… contributed to the gaze, while the eyes go a little black; so what, from above, remains spectacle, becomes integrated into the body whose size grows, in return, to the gigantic dimensions of the world…” Serres
September 2012
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Aftermath (3)- Network Society, class and...
Manuel Castells sets the scene in the Information Age “The key tension of the information age is that between the global network society and identity….” The key ideological trope of the network society is identified here. Identity as opposed to Class and… (well you know the rest) For in this moment the ‘resistence identities’ of nationalism, race and culture are...
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Aftermath - crisis
“….the sweeping hypothesis that cultural concepts of contemporary history are conflicted between deep-seated beliefs in progress and a rising tide of crisis events that challenge these beliefs…” Williams.
The underlying problem with all the Aftermath models of ‘crisis’ is ex
plicitly produced here… For What is a crisis event?
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Aftermath - The Cultures of the Economic Crisis -...
“The new system, global informational capitalism and its social structure the network society, displayed some historically irreversible features (such as the logic of the global network society based on the digital networking of all core human activities), together with some elements n submitted to eventual change under the impact of crises arising from the contradictions of this model of...
“So even though we may be getting better and better at resisting advertising in...”
– Baudrillard, The System of Objects, p180
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Benjamin, The Arcades Project, N1a, 6.
Douglas & Isherwood, The World of Goods, p49 (via rykalski)
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#Debord - Plagiarism (1)
A small intellectual justification for plagiarism… Creativity is an overrated value…
driftwork:
Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author’s phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea. - Debord
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August 2012
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“So even though we may be getting better and better at resisting advertising in...”
– Baudrillard, The System of Objects, p180 __ Benjamin, The Arcades Project, N1a, 6. Douglas & Isherwood, The World of Goods, p49 (via rykalski)
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“National dailies
Daily Mirror : 1,082,054 ; -8.74
Daily...”
– Double digit % sales losses for most nationals - ABC Newspaper Circulation Figures (ABCs) - Press Gazette (via futuramb)
Circulation… figures from the press gazette
sdv
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I watch A a six month old girl shrieking with...
I watch A a six month old girl shrieking with delight at herself shrieking on an Android phone screen. Wondering at her imaginary, at the mirror… In this moment and then thinking about Debord, Lefebvre and Agamben who in related but still divergent ways raise valid and intelligable concerns about the directional character of image, language and data as it operates and exists in what still...
images are selling out the world Vincent !
