Conspiracy Theorists, Non-Linear History, and James Bond

It is a new season of television on American networks. Honestly, it is a yearly period of time I could give two shits about, but something new has been brought to my attention that has gotten me thinking.
Now, don’t mistake me. The show in question is utter fucking trash. V, as the […]

Weaponized Sound

Well, it looks like we called it three years ago.
During the G20 protests, we saw the first use against civilians of the LRAD sound weapons.
Apparently this is “change we can believe in.”
Now, politics aside, I am slightly frustrated at the outrage over this issue, not because I think using weaponized sound is a good thing, […]

Boredom is Counter-revolutionary.

“…I consider
the potential of thousands of people with recorders, portable and
stationary, messages passed along like signal drums, a parody of the
President’s speech up and down the balconies, in and out open windows,
through walls, over courtyards, taken up by barking dogs, muttering bums,
[…]

Detrimental Delineations of the Digital Dream Machine

“Without a doubt our epoch prefers the image to the thing, the copy to the original, the representation to the reality, appearance to being. What is sacred to it is only illusion. More than that, the sacred grows in its eyes to the extent that truth diminishes and illusion increases, to such an […]

The Tao of Hip

“They do not know it, but they are doing it.”
Karl Marx

I was speaking with an old friend this evening, and as we have always been wont to do, we began speaking of why we do the things that we do. He began to lament the fact that he does not know the core of […]

C-Powell, do me one better or Respect, come get some

Recently, as though reason had entirely escaped our society as a whole, the general response to the accusations that presidential nominee Barack Obama was indeed a Muslim was that, no, he was in fact Christian and always had been. Of course, that has always been a readily available tidbit of data, but it took […]

Partying like its 2008, 1999, 1987, 1929, 1873

in a way all this is a relief.
in a way, this is a way for change.
the change that is an inevitable reaction to the failing of the international market created by the globalization of the last two decades may or may not be good for our ilk.
those who follow the these of illogical post operationalization.
perhaps, […]

The Supervillain as Ubertheorist

“Like modern society itself, the spectacle is at once united and divided. In both, unity is grounded in a split. As it emerges in the spectacle, however, this contradiction is itself contradicted by virtue of a reversal of its meaning: division is presented as unity, and unity as division.” — Thesis 54, The Society of […]

Short Term Profits of Dunbar’s Number

When considering the strategies of the two competing national parties in America during the last eight years of discourse, its good to recall Dunbar’s Number to help explain many of the actions taken, while they seem out of context.
Pre-dating this tumultuous period following 9/11, the Democrats had seemed like a group who actually had strategic […]

On Heroism

So, John McCain is labelled a “war hero” for having been a POW for about five years.
I guess being a POW for a long time is all you need to become a “war hero.”
One would think being tortured for so long would not make one a better candidate to be a President, but then, logic […]