SENSELESS DRAWING BOT. 53 o's. The revolving internet, constant dullaart 2010. Www.dontclick.it. Lose/lose. Lose/Lose is a video-game with real life consequences. Each alien in the game is created based on a random file on the players computer. If the player kills the alien, the file it is based on is deleted. If the players ship is destroyed, the application itself is deleted. Although touching aliens will cause the player to lose the game, and killing aliens awards points, the aliens will never actually fire at the player. Why do we assume that because we are given a weapon an awarded for using it, that doing so is right? By way of exploring what it means to kill in a video-game, Lose/Lose broaches bigger questions.
Lose/lose can be downloaded at your own risk, here: lose/lose code for generating the aliens appearances was pillaged from a project I collaborated on in 2007 with david wicks for domani studios audio from gratisvibes.com made with openFrameworks Highscores: 4: On Critique by Brian Massumi. Widespread Hijacking of Search Traffic in the United States.
By ICSI researchers Christian Kreibich, Nicholas Weaver and Vern Paxson, with Peter Eckersley. UPDATE, 8/25/11: There are a couple of revisions to this post which are marked inline below, and explained further here. Earlier this year, two research papers reported the observation of strange phenomena in the Domain Name System (DNS) at several US ISPs. On these ISPs' networks, some or all traffic to major search engines, including Bing, Yahoo! And (sometimes) Google, is being directed to mysterious third party proxies. A report in New Scientist today documents that the traffic is being rerouted through a company called Paxfire. Who is rerouting this search traffic? The published research papers did not identify the controller of the proxy servers that were receiving the traffic, but parallel investigations by the ICSI Networking Group and EFF have since revealed a company called Paxfire as the main actor behind this interception.
Why do they do this? What can I do about it? The Dangerous Politics of Internet Humor in China. Untitled. 4: Transversal Fields of Experience. Hacking With Pictures. In 2008, Australian show A Current Affair broadcast an episode that included a brief hypnotherapy session. The segment was called Think Slim and the idea was that it would help viewers lose weight. This was found to be in breach of the Commercial Television Industry Code of Practice which specifically forbids broadcasting shows “designed to induce a hypnotic state in viewers”. photo credit: rheanvent Take a look at this video of an augmented-reality physics app that Bruce Sterling linked to on Beyond the Beyond.
Did you see that? When this thing is running, images become executable. Computers you can hypnotize. The thing that I find so appealing about retinal scanners is that it’s a technological re-imagining of the salt-of-the-earth gut-check folk wisdom of the need to look someone in the eyes. Unless, of course, you are a guard rendered unconscious by the super-agent and dragged up to the scanner.
One way or another, the door gets opened. The full episode was never aired again. What? Drone Ethnography. Trevor Paglan, The Other Night Sky Suppose you wanted to build your own drone—well, hold on a minute—why do you want to build your own drone? What do you mean, “why?” The answer is, you'd go to Dronepedia first, and then to DIY Drones , where you'd find out where to get started with a simple kit or pre-made drone.
But suppose you just wanted to find out some of the latest info on the US government's top secret drone projects. And then if you want a little bit a speculation about drones, you pick up the paranoid defense blogging of Danger Room or the design-fiction of sousveillance and cyborg specialists like Tim Maly . Okay. I have thirty-five browser tabs open, and each contains a fragment of the drone-mythos. All of us that use the internet are already practicing Drone Ethnography. Epistemological change is inevitable, but there is more going on here than a revolution in research tools. The technological Swarm is distinct category of our cultural fear-set. And we don’t just want this. Paul Chan, The Unthinkable Community / Journal.
Paul Chan In Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, two men wait by the side of a country road for a man who never comes. If done right, that is to say, if done with humor, fortitude, and a whiff of desperation, the play is as contemporary, funny, precise, courageous, and unknowable as I imagine it was back in 1952, when the play premiered in Paris. When I worked with others to stage Godot in New Orleans in 2007, we took many liberties to make it work at that place, for that moment in time.
We set the entire play in the middle of a street intersection for one set of performances, and then in front of an abandoned house for another. The actors let the musical cadence of New Orleanian speech seep into the dialogue. We used trash that was left on the streets as props. But there was one thing I wanted to do, but didn’t in the end: I wanted Vladimir and Estragon, the two main characters, to wait for Godot with people loitering nearby.
Communication ≠ Connection ◂ Chatroulette screenshot. Community. Network Maps, Energy Diagrams « Continental Drift. Structure and Agency in the Global System Untitled (choreographic sketch by by Trisha Brown, 1980) The Internet is the vector of a new geography – not only because it conjures up virtual realities, but because it shapes our lives in society, and shifts our perceptions along with the ground beneath our feet. Networks have become the dominant structures of cultural, economic and military power. Yet that power remains largely invisible. How can the networked society be represented? And how can it be navigated, appropriated, reshaped in its turn? Reflecting in the early 1980s on the spatial chaos that technological and financial developments had impressed upon contemporary cities, Fredric Jameson pointed to the need for “an aesthetics of cognitive mapping” to resolve “the incapacity of our minds, at least at present, to map the great global multinational and decentered communicational network in which we find ourselves caught as individual subjects.”
Click detail for whole map. Artbase: Browse by Archived. Home. Paul Gilroy speaks on the riots, August 2011, Tottenham, North London. [Winston Silcott in his introduction, remarked that if London had a better welfare state like Sweden, the riots may not have occurred] Gilroy: I don't want us to get too romantic about Scandinavia... [applause]. The last time I was in Malmö there was a laser sniper shooting at people of colour in the streets. I want to say a few things in solidarity with the people who have suffered, the families including the family of Mark Duggan who have lost so much. I was sitting in Highbury magistrate's court this morning, watching the magistrate giving people who had no criminal record months and months before their case would even be heard.
And those young people, some of whom were not with their families but were on their own, could not have been defended successfully even by someone like Michael Mansfield. We've heard a lot of surprise from our political leaders who say that they didn't know this was coming. Welcome to Seppukoo / Assisting your virtual suicide. Web 2.0 Suicide Machine - Meet your Real Neighbours again! - Sign out forever! TRANSFORMATIONS Journal of Media & Culture. Issue No. 20 2011 — Slow Media Digital Suicide and the Biopolitics of Leaving Facebook By Tero Karppi “Everyone now wants to know how to remove themselves from social networks. It has become absolutely clear that our relationships to others are mere points in the aggregation of marketing data. Political campaigns, the sale of commodities, the promotion of entertainment – this is the outcome of our expression of likes and affinities.”
These are the opening words for the Facebook Suicide Bomb Manifesto written by Sean Dockray and first published in the iDC mailing list May 28, 2010. Our life from social relations, economy to interests is extensively tied into different kinds of social networks. Ulises A. The theoretical basis for analysing digital suicide is found in Michel Foucault’s concept of biopolitics developed in his lectures at the Collège de France 1975-76. Framing Digital Suicide Biopolitics & Business Models Now as it is known privacy poses a problem for social networks.