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Tag Archives: networks
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 Anthropocene and the End of Postmodernism
In his 1979 book The Postmodern Condition, Jean Francois Lyotard famously described the coming age of postmodernism as a the dissolution of grand narratives, that is, overarching schemes or horizons of thought that move the unifies social forces. “…it is … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthropocene, climate change, information technology, infrastructure, modernism, neoliberalism, networks, postmoernism
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The Poet and the Assassin: Control and Cosmos in “A Thousand Plateaus”
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
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Tagged A Thousand Plateaus, Accelerationism, Anti-Oedipus, control, cosmos, Deleuze, Fordism, Guattari, music, networks, noise, post-Fordism, revolution, Situationism
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The Revolution in Military Affairs: A Partial Timeline (+links)
“A Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) is a major change in the nature of warfare brought about by the innovative application of new technologies which, combined with dramatic changes in military doctrine and operational and organisational concepts, fundamentally alters the … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Wohlstetter, Andrew Marshall, Bush, California Ideology, CIA, communication, complexity, Cowles Commission, drones, Ford Foundation, Futurism, game theory, Global Business Network, globalization, information technology, intelligence community, Iraq, JSOC, Kevin Kelly, military-industrial-complex, neoconservatism, neoliberalism, netwar, networks, NSA, Obama, Paul Wolfowitz, post-Fordism, postmodernism, Project for the New American Century, RAND corporation, revolution in military affairs, Richard Perle, Rumsfeld Doctrine, Santa Fe Institute, scenario forecasting, Social Democrats USA, surveillance, swarm, War on Terror, warfare
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Sound Hacking: Further Reflections on Noise and Noncommunication
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
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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
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A Brief Détournement of Anti-Oedipus
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
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Tagged control, databodies, limit-experience, Mathematical Man, modulation, networks, noise, Young-Girl
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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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Goodbye to Complexity?
Scrolling through the internet’s back pages, I came across this old Nettime post from 2009 by Florian Cramer urging us to move past the fixation that the art world and activism have with second-order cybernetics, complexity, and the powers held … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, chaos theory, complexity theory, Cowles Commission, cybernetics, game theory, Global Business Network, Kevin Kelly, military-industrial-complex, networks, new media, RAND corporation, Santa Fe Institute, self-organization, Stewart Brand, swarm, Wired magazine
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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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Swarm Intermezzo: Meditations on the Ether
1. When we perceive the movement of the swarm, what is being witnessed is a certain diagram of action derived from the organizational properties of the distributed network. At this level, we take the shifts and … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, Bataille, bomb, complexity theory, computers, contagion, control, cybernetics, Empire, ether, global microstructures, Hardt, information technology, internet, irrationality, modulation, money, Negri, neoliberalism, networks, NSA, piracy, Protocol, RAND, rationalization, surveillance, swarm
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Deterritorial Investigations 