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January 30, 2013

Struggle For Smarts? How Eastern And Western Cultures Tackle Learning : NPR

See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions For the most part in American culture, intellectual struggle in school children is seen as an indicator of weakness, while in Eastern cultures it is not only tolerated, it is often used to measure… Continue reading

January 29, 2013

Mothers of Jews who like bacon: Where Facebook meets identity politics | csid

Super interesting. Tom Scott did something extraordinary last week: he typed in searches on Facebook’s new Graph Search feature and posted images of the results on his tumblr, called ActualFacebookGraphSearches. … which sounds quite un-extraordinary. Except that Scott – something… Continue reading

January 12, 2013

The NRA & the Black Panthers “in dialog”: The Secret History of Guns

Whether we are Christians or Muslims or nationalists or agnostics or atheists, we must first learn to forget our differences. If we have differences, let us differ in the closet; when we come out in front, let us not have… Continue reading

December 18, 2012

Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos | Politics and Law – CNET News

Okay. So this is very different from most of those little rumors that one hears about Facebook or its subsidiaries. This is coming from CNET and is pretty well thought out. I would recommend to folks that use Instagram to… Continue reading

December 4, 2012

Modern Mythology: The Internet and Counterculture (Acidexia Intro)

As all the chatter about the “2012 end of the world” dissolves back into the white noise from whence it came, we are still presented a unique vantage point. We can look at once backward and forward on cultural trends,… Continue reading

December 1, 2012

The Constantly Rebooting Control-Jellyfish

The Society of Control operates through constantly modulating networks which are interconnected by countless channels & circuits. A nice metaphor for the quasi-living structure that generates the Book of Life would be squids and jellyfish. …Perhaps the Economist should have… Continue reading

December 1, 2012

Survival of the biggest | The Economist

Interesting cover for this week’s Economist. Survival of the biggest | The Economist. Continue reading

August 25, 2012

The uncanny valley of Internet advertising: Why do creepy targeted ads follow me everywhere I go on the Web? – Slate Magazine

If you ask an Internet ad guy to defend himself—to explain why you, dear Web surfer, should feel comfortable letting him serve you ads based on everything you do online—you’ll likely hear two arguments. First, he’ll tell you that targeted… Continue reading

June 21, 2010

Society of Control

CLICK HERE TO READ POSTSCRIPT TO THE SOCIETY OF CONTROL BY Giles Deleuze Society is changing. In fact, society is always changing. From generation to generation, the alterations may sometimes seem slight. At other times, the variations may seem quite… Continue reading