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Tag Archives: postmodernism
The Conditions of Post-Postmodernity
Note: In each triad, the first figure represents modernism, the second figure postmodernism, and the third the woefully tacky-sounding post-postmodernism. It should be noted that just as postmodernism emerged from within modernism while also against it, maintaining a balance between … Continue reading
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Tagged Baudrillard, media, modernism, nomadism, post-postmodernism, postmodernism
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The Posthuman and the Information Guerrilla
The Posthuman Steve Hickman has a great new post up over at Dark Ecologies, musing on the inevitable transition taking place around us, a fractal mutation at the center of the question of what it means to be human in … Continue reading
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Tagged Accelerationism, Arthur Kroker, Asger Jorn, Bataille, communication guerilla, cybernetic guerilla warfare, cybernetics, drift culture, Empire, globalization, Hardt, Hegel, Information Guerrilla, internet, Luther Blissett, multitude, Negri, neoliberalism, noise, Peirce, post media, post-Fordism, posthuman, postmodernism, Situationist, tactical media, Thirdness, transhumanism, triolectics
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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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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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Dark Discourses and Ghostly Media
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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Tagged control, cyberpunk, Deleuze, discipline, Empire, Foucault, Guattari, Hardt, hauntology, industrial, limit-experience, McLuhan, modulation, mold, Negri, new media, postmodernism, Tiqqun, transgression, transhumanism
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Galloway’s “Control Matrix”
As a continuation of my previous post, I would like to replicate Alexander Galloway’s “Control Matrix” (Protocol, pgs. 114-115), which he uses to point towards a future (anti-?)politics of irrationality, silence, and hypertrophy. Part 1 Era Machine Energy mode Disciplinary … Continue reading
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Tagged contagion, control, discipline, Empire, hypertrophy, irrationality, modernism, noise, postmodernism, Protocol, randomness, silence, the future
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Empire, Biopower, Spectacle: Notes on Tiqqun
Today’s territory is the product of many centuries of police operations. People have been pushed out of their fields, then their streets, then their neighborhoods, and finally and from the hallways of their buildings, in the demented hope of containing … Continue reading
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Tagged AFL-CIO, biopower, control, cybernetics, Empire, Foucault, General Intellect, Hardt, immaterial labor, IWW, multitude, Negri, Occupy Wall Street, post-Fordism, postmodernism, psychoanalysis, revolution, spectacle, subjectivity, Tiqqun
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American Glimpses (1 and 2)
Jean Baudrillard from America (1986) Astral America. The lyrical nature of pure circulation. As against the melancholy of European analyses. The direct star-blast from vectors and signals, from the vertical and the spatial. As against the fevered distance of the … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Baudrillard, Main Street, patriotism, postmodernism, S.J. Bernstein
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Propositions of Diaspora
1. Empire is an environment that encircles the globe. It exists above and within the multitude; it finds its expression in the formal governmental apparatuses (the nation-states), and the informal governmental apparatuses (the corporations and their technocratic vanguards), and beyond … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, art, Diaspora, Empire, micropolitics, neoliberalism, nomadism, postmodernism, science, Zone of Experimentation
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Deterritorial Investigations 