June 2011
Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing and Sniping in... →
Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing and Sniping in the Empire of Signs
* * * I. The Empire of Signs
“My fellow Americans,” exhorted John F. Kennedy, “haven’t you ever wanted to put your foot through your television screen?”
Of course, it wasn’t actually Kennedy, but an actor in “Media Burn,” a spectacle staged in 1975 by...
Ramblings: Novelty, Identity, Teleology →
The Eliza Effect is the tendency to anthropomorphize those artifacts that present humanlike qualities shallowly. I have studied this effect in practice quite a bit, in an uncontrolled way,…
Anonymous asked: Dude, I love the articles you post. But for the sake of the rest of my dash, would it kill you to use the Read More button?
Bogon Flux Capacitor - Just the Paranoid Airbag...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/26/ry... →
Try to find all of the things wrong with this article. You won’t, because the heat death of the universe will happen first, but it’s a good illustration of shitty journalism at its worst.
Technoccult: Technoccult Interview: Douglas... →
technoccult:
Photo by Johannes Kroemer
“Are you a practicing occultist?” was the first question Douglas Rushkoff asked me when I met him at the Webvisions conference in Portland, OR. It’s not a typical question for a keynote speaker to ask a journalist he’s just met at a technology event. Then…
Hate of Church and State: Why More Anarchists... →
gravewisdom:
From Ghost of Vanzetti
Of course I can only ever give my personal opinion about this subject, a subject which is changing all the time. I’ll try not to abstract too much and speak from my personal experience and observations of anonymous… It’s like this. I didn’t find the…
“The idea of of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions...”
– Salman Rushdie (via redofromstart)
No Silver Bullet: Fred Brooks on the essence and... →
No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering
by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
Of all the monsters that fill the nightmares of our folklore, none terrify more than werewolves, because they transform unexpectedly from the familiar into horrors. For these, one seeks bullets of silver that can magically lay them to rest.
The familiar software project, at least as seen by the...
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“… as the necessity of civil government gradually grows up with the acquisition...”
– Adam Smith (The Bourgeoisies’ Own)
“The idea that Anarchy can be inaugurated by force is as fallacious as the idea...”
– Benjamin Tucker. (via 18goingon80)
http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/kla... →
Epigrams on Programming
Alan J. Perlis
Yale University
This text has been published in SIGPLAN Notices Vol. 17, No. 9, September 1982, pages 7 - 13. I’m offering it here online until ACM stops me.
The phenomena surrounding computers are diverse and yield a surprisingly rich base for launching metaphors at individual and group activities. Conversely, classical human endeavors provide an...
http://aworldbeyondborders.com/2011/06/10/1386/ →
Character Assassination of Anon: Cyber War, Internal Strife and Beyond
Posted on June 10, 2011 by the author 11 Votes
News of Osama Bin Laden’s alleged assassination recently swept around the world. Old images of him circulated the Internet, sparking controversy on social media and alternative news. The timing could not have been better for the US regime to claim the ‘hit’. The casino-style ...
