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 [...]

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, [...]

maybe Steve Harvey Mark Twain was just trying to warn you about cryptosporidium

Youtube Poop, Dada, & Noise Music: Discuss

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We’re Officially In the Fucking Future

So here at IllOp, we like to play games, and sometimes games tell us more about the world we live in that we’d like to admit. Take Cyberpunk for example. In Cyberpunk 2020 you have 9 basic classes to choose to play. They are as follows:

What is striking about this list is [...]

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 [...]

Participatory Culture, or, the Cultural Logic of Prosumer Capitalism

If modernism begins from a criticism of tradition, and postmodernism begins from the tearing of cultural fragments (memes) from their foundations to be used in new, playful, and sometimes ironic contexts (remixing), then what comes next and how does it begin?
(sidenote: If one wants a simple way to understand modernism and postmodernism, one needs only [...]