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Tag Archives: information theory
Into the Mystic: Capitalism and the Structuralization of Spirituality
In his fantastic book The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America, Paul N. Edwards forwards a quasi-literary reading of the way power and subjectivity operate in the age of the computer, focusing primarily on … Continue reading
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Tagged 60s, Anthropocene, Bateson, Cold War, communication, conscious capitalism, counterculture, cybernetics, Esalen, Fordism, information theory, neoliberalism, New Age, post-Fordism, psychoanalysis, RAND corporation, rationality, Rockefeller Foundation, schizophrenia, spirituality
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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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Excess, Machine, Culture: Three Plateaus on Noise Aesthetics
The following essay was originally intended for publication, but I find it to be a bit too unwieldy, and not fully articulated in the sense of coming-together that I would have hoped. I’m posting it here, however, as a sort … Continue reading
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Tagged alterity, Bataille, Bateson, counterculture, cybernetics, ektos, excess, feedback, Fluxus, Guattari, industrial, information, information technology, information theory, mail art, media, noise, noise music, noncommunication, Norbert Wiener, outsider art, self-organization, Situationism, subculture, via negativa, William Burroughs
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Metropolis, Media, Mechanosphere
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
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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
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Cut it Up and Start Again: Dub Soundscapes and Aesthetic Solidarity
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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Tagged Accelerationism, animism, appropriation, Baudrillard, capitalism, Claude Shannon, communication, contagion, cut-up, cybernetics, cyberpunk, Dada, dub, Empire, Guattari, hauntology, information technology, information theory, modernism, neoliberalism, noise, Norbert Wiener, post-Fordism, post-punk, postcolonialism, postmodernism, Protocol, resistance, self-organization, Situationism, solidarity, sound, Warren Weaver, William Burroughs
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Deterritorial Investigations 