Sunday, November 28, 2010
So, how did governing powers deployed strategic methods of control over the public? It started with a mix of a few influential people: Sigmund Freud + Edward Bernais + John Nash. Lets step back: THE PANOPTICON – How we learnt to police ourselves The Panopticon is a prison. It is designed to make all of […]
Also filed in governmental, psychological, Uncategorized
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Tagged advertising, discipline and punishment, edward bernais, engineering consent, foucault, game theory, individuality, john nash, michel de certeau, panopticon, politics, propaganda, public relations, RAND, security cameras, self policing, sigmund freud
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010
The rules of copyright are antiquated. They no longer apply to this new digital domain in which they operate. Copyright was originally created to protect and empower artists. They are now being used, particularly by the RIAA, to impart unfair power over artists work they control. This is an attempt to scare people into abiding […]
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Moving images capture us, pull us in. But the plot keeps us watching. As television technology advanced so did plot. The intricacies of shows have increased drastically. In Everything Bad is Good for You Johnston contrasts the plot lines for early TV shows with later. Shows in the 70’s like Starsky and Hutch follow a very linear […]
Also filed in informational, psychological
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Tagged adderall, cosmetic neurology, deep attention, deep focus, hayles, hyper-attention, meditation, ritalin, short attention, steven johnston
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Networks are everything. 1. Ants | Distributed Network It took a long time for scientists to figure out how ants organize themselves. No one understood how such a large colony could function with what seemed like no communication. Then someone figured it out. Ants give off pheromones to indicate what they’re doing. There is a […]
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Tagged ants, centralized, decentralized, distributed, feedback loops, mice movement, network art, network theory, networks, self organization, social art
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Saturday, September 18, 2010
Twitter and facebook status posts are examples of people relating to written text in an ephemeral way. Before this digital moment text was a permanent affair. This phonemic break-down of verbal flow sat forever on a page, waiting for an eye to cross it. Now many words are thrown up on twitter without the expectation […]
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Thoughts :: What hold do technologies have on our current society? The policing of selves became trusted to computational evaluation since the human-driven evaluation, psychiatry, was cast into un-trust because of a study done by David Rosenhan. Society took its position to police outsiders early on in our development; crazy people where put on boats […]