Tag Archives: control

The Uses and Abuses of Global Civil Society

Posted on April 15, 2015 by edmundberger

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged activism, capitalism, civil society, control, democracy, democracy promotion, information technology, internet, National Endowment for Democracy, neoliberalism, networks, swarm | 2 Comments

Speculations: Command and Control Ecologies

Posted on December 13, 2014 by edmundberger

Political groupings and executive authorities appear to be totally incapable of understanding the full implications of these issues. Despite having recently initiated a partial realization of the most obvious dangers that threaten the natural environment of our societies, they are … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Anthropocene, control, cybernetics, governmentality, neoliberalism, SAGE, System Dynamics | 4 Comments

Spectacled Dissent

Posted on December 9, 2014 by edmundberger

At least we can sleep sound at night knowing that as much as things change, unsubtle media bias never will… Protests in New York and Missouri have died down, but angry crowds in one California city famous for activism spent … Continue reading →

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Sketches on Mutant Design (or, Situationism at the after party)

Posted on December 6, 2014 by edmundberger

[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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | 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 | 6 Comments

The Poet and the Assassin: Control and Cosmos in “A Thousand Plateaus”

Posted on November 15, 2014 by edmundberger

The two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia have been read many ways: a critique of psychoanalysis, an exercise in nomadic thought, a foreshadow of chaos theory and the sciences of complexity, holistic texts packed with hermetic encoding. Anti-Oedipus in particular … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged A Thousand Plateaus, Accelerationism, Anti-Oedipus, control, cosmos, Deleuze, Fordism, Guattari, music, networks, noise, post-Fordism, revolution, Situationism | 7 Comments

Boredom/Anxiety/Time/Scales

Posted on June 14, 2014 by edmundberger

Here the delirium of the recline of western civilization is experienced as both the ecstasy of crash culture and the catastrophe of our burn-out in digital culture.i Arran James has put up an in-depth and fascinating post over at Synthetic … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Accelerationism, anxiety, boredom, contained time, control, Deleuze, difference, discipline, Foucault, generality, information, information technology, intermodal, machinic time, mechanosphere, network, rhythm, slow-down, speed, time | 8 Comments

Sound Hacking: Further Reflections on Noise and Noncommunication

Posted on May 26, 2014 by edmundberger

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | 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 | 12 Comments

Jacques Attali: Noise and Power

Posted on May 21, 2014 by edmundberger

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Atalli, control, noise, power, sound, surveillance | 6 Comments

A Brief Détournement of Anti-Oedipus

Posted on May 6, 2014 by edmundberger

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged control, databodies, limit-experience, Mathematical Man, modulation, networks, noise, Young-Girl | 2 Comments

Metropolis, Media, Mechanosphere

Posted on May 3, 2014 by edmundberger

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | 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 | 9 Comments