Monthly Archives: May 2015

James C. Scott – Autonomy, Vernaculars & the Invisible Committee

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Scales and Intensity of Governance: Rethinking Parliaments Through the Bodies

Originally posted on The Funambulist:
Local parliament in Cizîre, Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan) / Photograph by Jonas Staal (2015) Last Tuesday, I attended a lecture of Dutch artist Jonas Staal at the Centre for Research Architecture in Goldsmiths (London). Among other things,…

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Research dialog w/ Paul Rabinow‏

Originally posted on synthetic zerØ:
https://vimeo.com/115589641

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Cybernetic Management: Emergent Frailties of Capitalism

takes a certain kind of mind to translate cybernetics into libertarianism…

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Wild Ecologies: Speculative Anarchism & Guattari’s ‘The Three Ecologies’

Originally posted on synthetic zerØ:
Reading Group #1 Speculative Anarchism? an·ar·chism (noun): belief in the abolition of all government and the organization of society on a voluntary, cooperative basis without recourse to force or compulsion. The speculative turn is a phrase…

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Enter the Cybercattle‏ -Robin Mackay & Co.

Robin Mackay, Director of Urbanomic Jay Owens, researcher in social media at global strategic insight agency FACE Benedict Singleton, design strategist Adam Kleinman, writer and curator Matthew Fuller, Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths University of London “What … Continue reading

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drone-fare

Originally posted on Shenzhen Noted:
When I first saw the above advertisement for DJI, one of the world’s leading producers of drones, I balked. It seemed to me to be a picture that celebrated spying on the private and unaccessible mansions…

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Experiments in Cybernetic Existentialism w/ Steve Dixon

“This keynote explores the history of experimental networked performance and argues that many of these works specifically and importantly fuse ideas from cybernetics and existentialism. Key historical moments are traced, from the 19th century invention of the telegraph and telephone … Continue reading

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How One Man Can Crash the Stock Market

“Five years have passed since the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell nearly a 1,000 points in a matter of minutes, and we’re still trying to understand what happened. In the months after the crash, regulators concluded it was due a variety … Continue reading

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Digitization & Work -Saskia Sassen (Hong Kong talk & pdf)

Click to access digitization-and-work.pdf http://www.futureofworkinamerica.org/

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