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Tag Archives: civil society
The Uses and Abuses of Global Civil Society
Yesterday dmf linked an article here titled “Internet privacy, funded by spooks”, which advances the argument that through a series of intermediary organizations, federal money has been subsidizing the creation of whistleblower technologies and privacy tools like Tor and Open … Continue reading
The Decline and Fall: Personal Reflections on Post-Left Anarchism, Occupy, and the Future of the Left
Derick Varn of Symptomatic Commentary has an interesting and brief post that asks the question “what happened to post-left anarchism?” It’s an interesting thing to pose – post-left anarchism (from henceforth “PLA”) emerged during the 1990s as a loose tendency … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, alter-globalization, autonomism, carnivalesque, civil society, globalization, Occupy, post-Left anarchism, primitivism, Situationism
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Sketches on Mutant Design (or, Situationism at the after party)
[This has been cross-posted with discussion over at Synthetic Zero] (worldmap: command and control) Beyond the Judgement of God. Meltdown: planetary china-syndrome, dissolution of the biosphere into the technosphere, terminal speculative bubble crisis, ultravirus, and revolution stripped of all christian-socialist … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthropocene, apparatus, architecture, civil society, contagion, control, crisis, cybernetics, Deleuze, design, everyday life, glitch, Guattari, hacking, Information Guerrilla, information theory, Metropolis, neoliberalism, noise, Protocol, schizoanalysis, Situationism, urbanism
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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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The Swarmachine: A Historical Puzzle (Part 1)
The Colors of Revolution As the Cold War came to an end, undoing the critical strategic worldwide gridlock fueled by the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, globalization took off, accelerating the flows of capital, technology, and … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, Bateson, civil society, color revolution, communication, complexity theory, control, counterculture, cybernetics, Deleuze, democracy, democracy promotion, emergence, Freedom House, geopolitics, globalization, Guattari, hacking, Hardt, information technology, internet, LaRouche, military-industrial-complex, National Endowment for Democracy, Negri, neoconservatism, neoliberalism, networks, NGOs, psychoanalysis, psychology, R.D. Laing, RAND corporation, revolution, Rockefeller Foundation, Students for a Democratic Society, swarm, Tavistock
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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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Communique from the Committee for the Liberation of Autonomous Amusement: on the question of labor
Of all the things that the Committee for the Liberation of Autonomous Amusement calls for, it is the immediate refusal of labor on a mass scale and the repudiation of its status as a noble value. Capitalism elevated this system … Continue reading
Between the Transnational Capitalist Class and Global Civil Society: The Structures of Imperial Protocol
In several past posts, I’ve looked at different ways in which Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s hypothesis of Empire, the current transnational order, is composed and operates through its various methodologies and influences. In one of these, Life in the … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, AFL-CIO, civil society, control, Council on Foreign Relations, democracy, democracy promotion, Empire, Ford Foundation, Fordism, Freedom House, globalization, Hardt, internet, Keynesianism, National Endowment for Democracy, Negri, neoliberalism, post-Fordism, Protocol, Rockefeller Foundation, Social Democrats USA, transnational capitalist class, transnational state apparatus, Trilateral Commission
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Deterritorial Investigations 