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Monthly Archives: April 2014
Exiting Speed Culture: Tiqqun Against Cybernetic Acceleration
From The Cybernetic Hypothesis: Violence is the first rule of the game of encounters. And it polarizes the various wanderings of desire that Lyotard invokes the sovereign freedom of in his book Libidinal Economy. But because he refuses to admit that … Continue reading
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Tagged Accelerationism, cybernetics, Empire, Lyotard, rhythm, Simondon, slowness, speed, Tiqqun
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Biometric war
Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
The US military’s obsession with biometrics is, in part, the product of its phantasmatic desire to make the battlespace fully transparent, as its incorporation within the targeting cycle makes clear: But it’s also a vital means…
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Mathematical Man
The Turing test always rested on the presumption that we have some obvious and clear example of the pre-computerized subject against which to compare the ambiguous example. But we are made by and of our media, our computers. There no … Continue reading
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Tagged affect, game theory, Mathematical Man, neoliberalism, subjectivity
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Goodbye to Complexity?
Scrolling through the internet’s back pages, I came across this old Nettime post from 2009 by Florian Cramer urging us to move past the fixation that the art world and activism have with second-order cybernetics, complexity, and the powers held … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, chaos theory, complexity theory, Cowles Commission, cybernetics, game theory, Global Business Network, Kevin Kelly, military-industrial-complex, networks, new media, RAND corporation, Santa Fe Institute, self-organization, Stewart Brand, swarm, Wired magazine
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Broken Circuits
Maybe speech and communication have been corrupted. They’re thoroughly permeated by money—and not by accident but by their very nature. We’ve got to hijack speech. Creating has always been something different from communicating. The key thing may be to create vacuoles of noncommunication, … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, Dark Deleuze, Deleuze, Geert Lovink, internet, Negri, new media, New York School, noncommunication, NSA, post media, Protocol, resistance, Snowden
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Global Networked Labour Union invites organizers and networkers to mesh-up for the worldwide transition
Originally posted on Social Network Unionism:
GNUnion invites everybody to network and organize at the same time, in order to stitch a mass mesh network between their like-minded peers, linking them and their network bases to each other strategically. We…
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Tagged activism, civil society, communication, globalization, hacking, internet, networks, new media, post media, resistance
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Cut it Up and Start Again: Dub Soundscapes and Aesthetic Solidarity
The boy did a handstand in the surf, laughing. He walked on his hands, then flipped out of the water. His eyes were Riveria’s, but there was no malice there. “To call up a demon you must learn … Continue reading
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Tagged Accelerationism, animism, appropriation, Baudrillard, capitalism, Claude Shannon, communication, contagion, cut-up, cybernetics, cyberpunk, Dada, dub, Empire, Guattari, hauntology, information technology, information theory, modernism, neoliberalism, noise, Norbert Wiener, post-Fordism, post-punk, postcolonialism, postmodernism, Protocol, resistance, self-organization, Situationism, solidarity, sound, Warren Weaver, William Burroughs
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Deterritorial Investigations 