technology
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 […]
The best/worst/best again idea for a cinema-crit/philosophy book ever
Okay, so I’m thinking of how these four movies relate to our current technological society:
Speed
The Net
The Matrix
The Lake House
Think about it. The chapter on Speed could be all about Paul Virilio’s theories on the integral accident and dromology.
The Net is about the problem of Google’s monolithic control over all information and the threat of […]
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 […]
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.”
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. 