society of control
-
Irony Incarcerated
Below is a picture of a product made by unpaid Texas prison inmates who work for extra privileges (like time off of their sentence, the ability to buy goodies at the commissary, exercise in the yard, etc.). They get rooming,… Continue reading
-
Down with Activism; Up with Revolution
…we imagine that we are revolutionaries when we are nothing more than temporary rebels. Activism is far from revolution, and the left at the centres of capitalism is dominated by activists and activist groups––NOT revolutionaries and revolutionary movements. The most popular and predictable… Continue reading
-
PredPol: Tomorrow’s Minority Report Today
How the the gathering of infometrics by Amazon and Wal-Mart teaches the police to “predict” crime… The future of policing, it seems, will look a lot like the present of policing, just faster and with more math. Instead of using… Continue reading
-
Fate and the Wire
Tautological understanding is very much a part of The Wire‘s metaphysics. David Simon directs/authors the series structurally along the lines of Greek Tragedy rather than the Shakesperean variety. Essential paths–following the strict law of identity–play a huge role in instantiating a… Continue reading
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
Control Continued – Oh, Dear
Confusion, uncertainty–oh, dear. Continue reading
-
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
-
Herbert Marcuse and Seth Rogen
Watching THE INTERVIEW with Herbert Marcuse in mind. Continue reading
-
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
CALL ME MAGGIE 
You must be logged in to post a comment.