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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 […]
John and Mary walked by the bank
A couple of notes first: names have been changed, and all italicized words that appear below were also italicized in the conversation.
LADY ONE
Clavicus: hello
Lady1: hey..
Clavicus: how are you?
Lady1: i’m great.. =] you?
Clavicus: pretty good
Clavicus: I have a headache though
Clavicus: I’m about to fix it
Lady1: aww, i’m sorry bout that..
Clavicus: Ok, I took some bc powder
Lady1: some what?
Clavicus: it’s […]
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 […]
The Value of Information
It would be a cliche to repeat the argument that, “Information wants to be free.” Instead, let’s analyze the concept of information. Is it born free, but everywhere in chains? No, it is produced by instruments and machines, recorded from every possible surface. But as soon as it is produced, it is put to work.
What […]
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, […]
Submitting to the Swarm
it has been well known and documented for sometime that the larger a group of humans is, the more likely they are to make rash, foolish, ill-informed decisions.
we are aiming to surpass 7 billion people on the planet by 2012.
if the internet is any measure, we’re on course to be completely unable to function within […]
physical resistance in digital culture
so ive been hearing a lot lately about the end of the internet as we know it.
in this desolate post-internet world of 2012, will the people truly sit back and let much of the functionality of the most important communications device conceived be taken away from them so easily?
considering recent attacks on prominent internet companies, […]
2009 The Institute of Illogical Operation. 