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Technology in a Dangerous World Online Course, MIT Other Courses, | Free Video lectures, Download
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DATA Annual Meeting Snags Incredible Lineup, Ven Tie-ins featured - 29th March 2014 Hub Culture is working with the Digital Asset Transfer Authority to make tickets, donations and hotel rooms available in Ven to support the first DATA Annual Meeting, 9-11 April in Washington D.C. Read on... Hub Culture Opens Developer Portal featured - 26th February 2014 Hub Culture has released an advanced set of APIs for software developers, including global pricing and mobile application tools and special applications for Ven Authorities with high frquency pricing and hedging capabilities. Read on... Hub Culture Acquires Stake in Alternet Systems, Inc. using Ven Digital Currency featured - 26th February 2014 Hub Culture today announced in Barcelona it has acquired a stake in Alternet Systems, Inc. Read on... Generator and Hub Culture Partner to Bring Barcelona Pavilion to Life for 2014 Mobile World Congress featured - 24th February 2014 Read on... Read on... Read on... Read on... Read on for 0.04 Ven...
Three films on communication and networks • Timo Arnall
In the last two weeks I’ve seen three documentaries dealing with communication and networks. Firstly, a broad and ambitious film from Ericsson, taking on the ‘networked society’ including interviews with David Weinberger, Catarina Fake and Eric Wahlforss. Each of the interviewees discusses the emerging opportunities being enabled by technology as we enter the Networked Society. Concepts such as borderless opportunities and creativity, new open business models, and today’s ‘dumb society’ are brought up and discussed. The next film from Nokia brings daily life around networked communication technologies to the forefront, and does it through lovely experiential sequences. Third is a film by Ben Mendelsohn and Alex Chohlas-Wood about the physical, geographic and material infrastructure that goes into running the internet. Lower Manhattan’s 60 Hudson Street is one of the world’s most concentrated hubs of Internet connectivity.
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I have a todo list. It's public, and editable, so if you want to help with any of this, you can. You can also put stuff on it, responsibly. [edit] To do [edit] MAJOR PROJECTS I am now officially Pretty Busy for the next two to three months. Big Picture Days set dates for remaining Big Picture Days 2013Jul13 invoices etc. for Swarm Coops publish the cards from Swarm Coops - Leo Finishing Mother of Hydrogen put the epub of Mother of Hydrogen up Substantial ISRS consulting project roughly a solid month slides for COPD start on first report Firecloud for Mozilla schedule a set of meetings - @dajbelshaw setting times slide deck for Firecloud EdgeRyders Round 3 [edit] OTHER TASKS ADHOCRACY info see email web maintenance update hexayurt project's status on linked.in - add jay, razi, lucas etc GAMA - what to do with this, linked.in to legitimise? [edit] TO READ [edit] Done [edit] Calendar [edit] current schedule [edit] history
Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: The Automaton in the European Imagination - Minsoo Kang
Donna Haraway - A Cyborg Manifesto
An ironic dream of a common language for women in the integrated circuit This chapter is an effort to build an ironic political myth faithful to feminism, socialism, and materialism. Perhaps more faithful as blasphemy is faithful, than as reverent worship and identification. Blasphemy has always seemed to require taking things very seriously. I know no better stance to adopt from within the secular-religious, evangelical traditions of United States politics, including the politics of socialist feminism. A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction. Contemporary science fiction is full of cyborgs — creatures simultaneously animal and machine, who populate worlds ambiguously natural and crafted. By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs. Fractured identities Women in the integrated circuit
IJBS
Volume 1, Number 2 (July 2004) The Matrix Decoded: Le Nouvel Observateur Interview With Jean Baudrillard1 Translated by: Dr. Gary Genosko (Canada Research Chair in Technoculture Studies, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada). and Adam Bryx (Graduate Student in English, Lakehead University). The simulacrum hypothesis deserved better than to become a reality.2 Le Nouvel Observateur: Your reflections on reality and the virtual are some of the key references used by the makers of The Matrix. Jean Baudrillard: Certainly there have been misinterpretations, which is why I have been hesitant until now to speak about The Matrix. Nouvel Observateur: The connection between the film and the vision you develop, for example, in The Perfect Crime, is, however, quite striking. Baudrillard: Yes, but already there have been other films that treat the growing indistinction between the real and the virtual: The Truman Show, Minority Report, or even Mulholland Drive, the masterpiece of David Lynch.
...OR MAYBE NOT | Hyper-reality, and the Death of Post-modermism
Jean Baudrillard spent a life time writing about how the simulation of reality will soon and maybe already has replaced reality itself. He references Borges Fable where a cartographer starts to draw a map of the kings empire, however through wanting to draw it as accurately as possible with as much detail as possible he ends up covering the whole empire with the map itself. When the empire falls, the map takes its place as the new empire but fades into the landscape leaving neither the land or its representation behind. Baudrillard uses this as an example of hyper-reality and we are now seeing this hyper-reality in the media and advertising, popular culture, music and television. Our televisions now display simulations of reality instead of actual reality and our music and graphic design does the very same thing. These days pop music simulates a real song, so what we hear on the radio is 3 places removed from the actual song itself and the actual studio performance of the song.
