Monthly Archives: August 2016

the Whole Earth network

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The Poverty of Left Accelerationism: A review of Srnicek & Williams’ Inventing the Future

https://socialecologies.wordpress.com/2016/08/31/the-poverty-of-left-accelerationism-a-review-of-srnicek-and-williams-inventing-the-future/

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Shades of the Dulles Brothers

http://ia601009.us.archive.org/33/items/Kinzer/kinzer.mp3 “Steve Kinzer is raising sharp questions for today about the late, unlamented Dulles brothers — John Foster and Allen Dulles, who ruled US diplomacy and spy-craft in the Eisenhower 1950s. The Brothers are the subjects now of Kinzer’s double … Continue reading

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Can the commons be an answer to systematic economic, social & democratic expulsions?

“New Democracy aims to bring about change in the way democracy is organized. Tonight we investigate the manifestation of expulsion in cities, the phenomenon that Saskia Sassen describes in her latest and eponymous book. Together with Sheila Foster and Christian … Continue reading

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data cities

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Conversations w/ History: Robert S. McNamara

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Exits to the Posthuman Future

“Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, If everything today is marked by panic control—over-coded, over-normalized, over-secured, over-mediated, over-measured– this is probably because the reality-principle has been shaken to its core by a fundamental technological wobble. More than ever, the future appears in … Continue reading

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Stephen E. Arnold on Search Engines & Intelligence Gathering

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The Shaping of Environmental Information in Social Media: Affordances and Technologies of Self-control (2016)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Haider, J. The Shaping of Environmental Information in Social Media: Affordances and Technologies of Self-control (2016) Environmental Communication, 10 (4), pp. 473-491. DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2014.993416 Full text available Abstract This article studies environmental information as it…

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Decoding Chomsky w/ Chris Knight

“Occupying a pivotal position in postwar thought, Noam Chomsky is both the founder of modern linguistics and the world’s most prominent political dissident. Chris Knight adopts an anthropologist’s perspective on the twin output of this intellectual giant, acclaimed as much … Continue reading

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