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The Birth of the Security-Information Complex: Beyond Surveillance and Control
The following article is a very rough draft of something that may turn into an actual article, but I decided to go ahead and prematurely publish it anyway in an attempt to get some feedback.
The philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari, in which capitalism “constantly overcom[es] its own limitations,” has shown itself to be accurate in […]
“Postscript on the Societies of Control” by Gilles Deleuze
I. Historical
Foucault located the disciplinary societies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; they reach their height at the outset of the twentieth. They initiate the organization of vast spaces of enclosure. The individual never ceases passing from one closed environment to another, each having its own laws: first the family; then the school (”you are no longer in your family”); then the barracks (”you are no longer at school”); then the factory; from time to time the hospital; possibly the prison, the preeminent instance of the enclosed environment. It’s the prison that serves as the analogical model: at the sight of some laborers, the heroine of Rossellini’s Europa ‘51 could exclaim, “I thought I was seeing convicts.”
Wal-Mart is the new “Big Apple”
Living in Portland for a while now, I’d almost forgotten about that mega-store, Wal-Mart.
Update on Wally World’s status:
According to Good Magazine Wal-Mart’s total store acreage is now greater than that of all of Manhattan, which is about 15,000 acres. Wal-Mart covers a total of 18,810 acres.
My first thought goes to the giant Costco city […]
What if this is how Equilibrium (the movie) starts?
What if we appear to initially win the War on Piracy and The Man gets frustrated about not being able to control intellectual property and just bans art altogether?
The War on Piracy: From Cold to Hot
“We need, across the board, to move IP enforcement up the agenda of the federal government,” [NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker] said.To that end, the [U.S.] Chamber [of Commerce] is pushing for the creation of a new White House post called “chief intellectual property enforcement officer,” increased spending for border and law enforcement, and stepped-up […]
dateline gets fucking pwned.
so, the guys behind the highly popular catch a predator series on dateline decided to attend defcon this year. defcon being a yearly hacker convention where hackers research security issues in a live environment. michelle madigan, a dateline producer, decided to show up at defcon without a press pass and with a hidden […]
2008 The Institute of Illogical Operation. 