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Monthly Archives: May 2014
Sound Hacking: Further Reflections on Noise and Noncommunication
We have become so accustomed to violence through entertainment that transgression itself has become merely another capitalist performance. How then do we elevate art, how can it be a reaction to the Other instead of its medium? How must we … Continue reading
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Tagged affect, Attali, Bataille, becoming, communication, contagion, control, Dada, Deleuze, desire, discipline, dread, dub, Foucault, Furies, Futurism, global ghettotech, globalization, Guattari, heresy, krautrock, lack, McKenzie Wark, media, modernism, network, networks, Nick Land, noise, noncommunicatin, power, Protocol, resistance, rhizomes, sabotage, sacrifice, schizoanalysis, schizophrenia, Situationism, the negative, the sacred, the weird, transgression, via negativa, xenocommunication
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Jacques Attali: Noise and Power
Eavesdropping, censorship, recording, and surveillance are weapons of power. The technology of listening in on, ordering, transmitting, and recording noise is at the heart of this apparatus. The symbolism of the Frozen Words, of the Tables of the Law, of recorded noise and … Continue reading
Visionary Materialism: Entheogens, Magic, and the Sciences
Originally posted on The Dark Fantastic: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. – Arthur C. Clarke Actually the quote above was the last of Arthur C. Clarke’s famous three laws of “prediction”: When…
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Excess, Machine, Culture: Three Plateaus on Noise Aesthetics
The following essay was originally intended for publication, but I find it to be a bit too unwieldy, and not fully articulated in the sense of coming-together that I would have hoped. I’m posting it here, however, as a sort … Continue reading
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Tagged alterity, Bataille, Bateson, counterculture, cybernetics, ektos, excess, feedback, Fluxus, Guattari, industrial, information, information technology, information theory, mail art, media, noise, noise music, noncommunication, Norbert Wiener, outsider art, self-organization, Situationism, subculture, via negativa, William Burroughs
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A Brief Détournement of Anti-Oedipus
It is working everywhere, functioning smoothly at times, at other times it grumbles and grunts. It eats, breathes, gets coded and decoded, straddling the threshold of the physical and the digital but knows the divide is irrelevant. What a mistake … Continue reading
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Tagged control, databodies, limit-experience, Mathematical Man, modulation, networks, noise, Young-Girl
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Smart Cities of the Future: Infosphere, Inforgs, and Technoutopianism
Originally posted on The Dark Fantastic: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
Within modern, functionally differentiated society there is no longer any privileged position that could offer a binding representation of society within society. – Patrik Schumacher, The Autopoiesis of Architecture: A…
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Metropolis, Media, Mechanosphere
I. In 2007, a group of some two-hundred entrepreneurs representing technological start-ups descended on Seattle for “a wine and cheese party” organized by Amazon and Madrona Venture Group, an early investor in the tech corporations like the aforementioned digital … Continue reading
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Tagged biopower, cellular automata, complexity theory, control, cybernetics, Deleuze, discipline, Empire, Foucault, globalization, Guattari, information technology, information theory, mechanosphere, Metropolis, neoliberalism, networks, nomadism, panopticon, simulation, Situationism, spectacle, surveillance, urbanism
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The Formula for Overthrowing the World
“The Hacienda must be built” – Ivan Chtcheglov, Formularly for a New Urbanism “From Ivan Chtcheglov’s 1953 essay “Formulary for a New Urbanism” with it’s references to Campanella (“there is no longer any Temple of the Sun”) through to Debord’s recent … Continue reading
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Tagged alchemy, Archizoom, Debord, occult, poetry, Situationism, Stewart Home, surrealism, urbanism, Vaneigem
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Deterritorial Investigations 