society of control
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The Widening Divide Between Wall Street and Washington | TIME.com
Interesting op/ed at Time.com from the Curious Capitalist. Corporate finance is global. Politics remains local. Situating ourselves within the dialectic betwixt economics & policy is very much an important affair in facing up to the Society of Control & its… Continue reading
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The end of the university « Andrew Taggart
Nice meditation on a favorite subject of mine: where exactly higher education may be going in the globalized Society of Control. Taggart asks some good questions and is moving toward an intriguing elucidation: …any serious threat to the status quo… Continue reading
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Rigorous Quantification and Disciplinary Rigidity
Epistemology can be translated as the study of how we know or an account of how we know. In the article I link to below, UT PhD candidate Mark Coddington does a nice job delineating the different situations which generate… Continue reading
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The Book of Life
A recent Truthout.org article speaks to our living in an impoverished age. The issue with our impoverishment arises from not comprehending how the “plutocracy” is a conceptual weapon, not only against the 99% but against themselves as well. One thing… Continue reading
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Wealth doesn’t trickle down – it just floods offshore
Often, when I hear folks saying that the rich and super rich are job creators, I ask myself: Exaclty to how much of world economics do you actually pay heed? If profits are not invested into foreign ventures they are… Continue reading
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Daily chart: Buy me a river | The Economist
The weekly magazine The Economist reports on a new index that attempts to take stock of countries’ total wealth… Daily chart: Buy me a river | The Economist. I shared this with my beloved friend Alex Mosiak. Here is our… Continue reading
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Controlling Choice
The constantly modulating networks of choice that leave us always wanting by catching us already adapting within the limits we are offered. https://karljaspers23.wordpress.com/2010/06/21/society-of-control/ Continue reading
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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
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Serving the Masses
When the titanic apparatus of the mass-order has been consolidated, the individual has to serve it, and must from time to time combine with his fellows in order to renovate it. If he wants to make his livelihood by intellectual… Continue reading
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