Tag Archives: cyberpunk

Informatic Guerrilla Warfare

Posted on October 30, 2014 by edmundberger

Guerrilla Warfare and Counterinsurgency Traditional guerrilla activity such as bombings, snipings, and kidnapping complete with printer manifestos seems like so many ecologically risky short change feedback devices compared with the real possibilities of portable video, maverick data banks, acid metaprogramming. … Continue reading →

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Geert Lovink on Bifo, Dark Media, and Resistance

Posted on October 27, 2014 by edmundberger

Geert Lovink recently gave a speech on Franco “Bifo” Berardi’s phd thesis, which is being published by Semiotex(e) sometime next year. In the meantime, Lovink muses on Bifo’s relationship to Deleuze (particularly the “Dark Deleuze” formulated over at AnarchistWithoutContent), the … Continue reading →

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Cut it Up and Start Again: Dub Soundscapes and Aesthetic Solidarity

Posted on April 5, 2014 by edmundberger

    The boy did a handstand in the surf, laughing. He walked on his hands, then flipped out of the water. His eyes were Riveria’s, but there was no malice there. “To call up a demon you must learn … Continue reading →

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Dark Discourses and Ghostly Media

Posted on March 29, 2014 by edmundberger

Steve Hickman has written an excellent reply to my “Meditations on the Ether,” so in depth and straight to the point that I feel that its best to respond in post-form, not simply in the comments section. Quote: “What this … Continue reading →

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Movement, Counter-paradigm chart (incomplete)

Posted on March 12, 2014 by edmundberger

  Movement Years Reacting to Counter-paradigm Characteristics Wartime/post-war liberalism mid-1930s-late 1950s “Authoritarian Personality” “Democratic Personality” Multiculturalism, openness, participation Post-war avant-garde 1942-1960 Liberal corporatism Active experience Spontaneity, participation, self-organization, Eastern philosophy New Left 1960-1972 Liberalism corporatism, Marxist-Leninism Authentic experience Direct democracy, … Continue reading →

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“Decoder”: Noncultures of Cutting Up Control

Posted on January 27, 2014 by edmundberger

Cut ups are for everyone. Any body can make cut ups. It is experimental in the sense of being something to do. Right here write now. Not something to talk and argue about. Greek philosophers assumed logically that an object twice … Continue reading →

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Communique from the Committee for the Liberation of Autonomous Amusement: on the media

Posted on December 25, 2013 by edmundberger

 “Representations have become more powerful than the material reality itself.”i When we make representations, we never accurately reach that which is being represented. There is a gulf between the object and the subject, and this gulf extends even to these … Continue reading →

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Acceleration Now (or how we can stop fearing and learn to love chaos)

Posted on April 10, 2013 by edmundberger

The story goes like this: Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity as renaissance rationalitization and oceanic navigation lock into commoditization take-off. Logistically accelerating techno-economic interactivity crumbles social order in auto-sophisticating machine runaway. As markets learn to manufacture intelligence, politics … Continue reading →

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