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Monthly Archives: January 2014
Deleuze on Machines and Society
“The concrete machines are the two-form assemblages or mechanisms, whereas the abstract machine is the informal diagram. In other words, the machines are social before being technical. Or, rather, there is a human technology which exists before a material technology. … Continue reading
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Tagged civil society, Deleuze, discipline, Foucault, Guattar, Lewis Mumford, machine, megamachine
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“Decoder”: Noncultures of Cutting Up Control
Cut ups are for everyone. Any body can make cut ups. It is experimental in the sense of being something to do. Right here write now. Not something to talk and argue about. Greek philosophers assumed logically that an object twice … Continue reading
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Tagged contagion, control, counterculture, cut-up, cyberpunk, game theory, post media, post-punk, sound, tape recorders, William Burroughs
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“The sage speaks of what he sees”: War Games and the New Spirit of Capitalism
Technological Ideologues “At the end of the twentieth century, the long predicted convergence of the media, computing and telecommunications into hypermedia is finally happening,” wrote Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron in 1995. “Once again, capitalism’s relentless drive to diversify and … Continue reading
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Tagged California Ideology, Cold War, complexity theory, computers, control, cybernetics, Deleuze, game theory, Global Business Network, globalization, Guattari, internet, Jay Wright Forrester, military-industrial-complex, neoliberalism, networks, Norbert Wiener, RAND corporation, SAGE, Stewart Brand, swarm, System Dynamics, Wired magazine
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Reading Notes from S.M. Amadae’s “Rationalizing Democracy”
Introduction “…recounts the defeat of Marxism by rational choice liberalism: a philosophy of markets and democracies that was developed in part to anchor the foundations of American society during the Cold War.” (pgs. 2-3) RC has persisted past the Cold War … Continue reading
Deterritorial Investigations 