Fair Use and Social Justice – Grace Lee Boggs and MLK Jr. -v- EMI
So I ran into one of those ironies of ironies this evening while working on a project. I pose this to my readers as a question: what would you do? So here’s...
March 2012
Genetic Codes, Cyborg Selves and the Future
“Human beings, like any other component or subsystem, must be localized in a system of architecture whose basic modes of operation are probabilistic, statistical. No objects, space, or bodies are sacred in themselves;...
A Brave New World?
“Ford, we are twelve; oh make us one, Like drops within the Social River; Oh, make us now together run As swiftly as thy shining Flivver. Come, Greater Being, Social Friend, Annihilating...
Latest NYPD Outrage – Forced Iris Scans
The latest scandal involving the NYPD, which seems to have an unlimited ability to do whatever they want with no accountability and total immunity, was reported over the weekend by the Village...
Command, Control and Communications (C3)
Reflecting on this week’s reading by John May (Sensing: Preliminary Notes on the Emergence of Statistical-Mechanical Geographic Vision) and Peter Galison (War Against the Center), it is clear that the importance of...
The Dangerous Business of Facebook Access
[3/24 Update] *After having written about this earlier this week, the story seems to have exploded. Facebook even came out with a statement which effectively said to employers–ask for employee–or potential employee...
