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Manuel de Landa, in his 1996 interview with Konrad Becker and Miss M., speaks his thoughts about the economy, the internet, and neo-materialism. Implicit in his words is a harsh critique of contemporary human analysis, a critique of how we order the metaphors by which we understand the world around us. He points at historical […]
April 13, 2011
Text copied from CBC Radio 3’s LanaRama blog, written by Lana Gay and published on April 12th 2011. “I recently read an article about a teens Science Talent Search entry. The student studied what happens when you take cell phones away from teenagers. With the use of a biofeedback meter, she monitored her test subjects […]
April 6, 2011
Lars Qvortrup’s article “Understanding New Digital Media: Medium Theory or Complexity Theory” presents some interesting examples of how the internet is affecting the social order and politics of the globalized world. He makes some interesting observations about the current global situation resulting from the use of the internet as the primary medium for communicating and […]
March 13, 2011
The Creator called the trickster, Nanaboozhoo, to his side and told Nanaboozhoo that one last creature was to be lowered to Earth by the Creator and that this last creature, the human being, would be given a special role as custodian or caretaker of creation. The Creator had decided to balance this responsibility, to instil […]
February 27, 2011
Donna Haraway brings up some thought provoking ideas in The Companion Species Manifesto. She sheds an entirely new light on the politics of everyday interaction. My feelings about dogs are akin to the “few non-dog loving New Yorkers” Haraway refers to, and, consequently, the account of Mrs. Cayenne Pepper’s “darter-tongue kisses” which swab the tissues of tonsils which we […]
February 17, 2011
The text which I critique is “The Ambiguous Panopticon: Foucault and the Codes of Cyberspace” by Mark Winokur. I must begin this blog by noting that Sartre and I have a very spotty history. In my opinion, he should have stuck to writing plays and novels, and left philosophy alone. This work seems to be […]
Hooked Into Machine 
May 3, 2011
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