society of control
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Bibliometrics: The Leiden Manifesto
Data are increasingly used to govern science. Research evaluations that were once bespoke and performed by peers are now routine and reliant on metrics1. The problem is that evaluation is now led by the data rather than by judgement. Metrics… Continue reading
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Charting more diffuse influences across time
My colleagues Adam Briggle, Robert Frodeman and Britt Holbrook continue their work on the philosophy of impact and the impact of philosophy… Today even the humanities are expected to have an impact. In the 2014 REF, for instance, philosophy formed… Continue reading
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Remember This: Capitalism IS Race
… It’s not just a race. Consider the radical beginning of Memorial Day in the now forgotten Decoration Day, a holiday that originally recalled the violent partisan political struggles of emancipation as a central aspect of remembrance. At least until… 1877,… Continue reading
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Soundthropology: Eno and Graeber in Dialog
The 2014 Artangel Longplayer Conversation between Brian Eno and David Graeber took place 7pm, Tuesday 7 October 2014 at the Royal Geographical Society http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuBpOXGLn_o Continue reading
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Tax (Break) Day – Truthout
Listening to what corporate America has to say about their taxes, one might draw the conclusion that the US tax system places an unequal burden on big business. However, that’s simply not the case: Over the last 50 years, the… Continue reading
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Authentic sharing – The New Inquiry
I thought I should share this… “Sharing economy,” of course, is a gratingly inappropriate terms to describe a business approach that entails precisely the opposite, that renders the social field an arena for microentrepreneurship and nothing else. Yet the vestiges of “sharing”… Continue reading
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Counting Down to Doomsday: Can We Turn Back the Clock?
…there’s an important difference between a real clock and the Doomsday Clock. A real clock, as long as its batteries are working, will always move forward, from second to second and minute to minute. The Doomsday Clock, in contrast, does… Continue reading
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These Computer Programs “Feel You”
Rhafi Khatchadhourian at the New Yorker takes a look at new developments in recognition software that are game changers on computers interpreting our emotive reactions to what we are reading/viewing on our electronic devices. Like every company in this field,… Continue reading
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Control Continued – Oh, Dear
Confusion, uncertainty–oh, dear. Continue reading
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Does Cultural Oppression Affect Us Genetically?
Whether one is talking about coffee farmers in Ethiopia or the service employees at a local McDonald’s, there are the stressors being pressed down upon the working poor at every turn. What are the epigenetic consequences of oppression? Continue reading
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Herbert Marcuse and Seth Rogen
Watching THE INTERVIEW with Herbert Marcuse in mind. Continue reading
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State Terrorism and Racist Violence in the Age of Disposability: From Emmett Till to Eric Garner
The larger reasons behind Eric Garner’s execution seem to be missed by most commentators. The issue is not simply police misconduct, or racist acts of police brutality, however deadly, but the growing use of systemic terror of the sort we… Continue reading
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Cotton and Capitalism: The Tapestry of Domination
The truth is that no one knows what “the history of capitalism” is because its history is just now being written. But if there is any indication of what it might look like, it appears in Sven Beckert’s remarkable and… Continue reading
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ISIS, the Spectacle of Terrorism: Resisting Mainstream Workstations of Fear
Fear drives the loss of both our personal and our social power. Fear separates us from our own thinking which stagnates. Fear clouds our evolving presence in the globalizing superstructure. Henry Giroux reveals here how fearfulness is a major component of the Society… Continue reading
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The Fear Soaked Victim at the Heart of the Police State
We live in a culture where the victim is always the criminal and the criminal is always the victim. When it is a murderer–one without a police shield, of course–this is the sort of thing shouted by all kinds of… Continue reading
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America Is Not For Black People
Michael Brown is not special. In all its specificity, the 18-year olds death remains just the most recent example of police officers killing unarmed black men.Part of the reason were seeing so many black men killed is that police officers… Continue reading
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