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October 10, 2009
Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture
*Man, the academy can devour ANYTHING!
*Worse yet, this sounds remarkably interesting! I'm afraid I'm going to have to read this.
http://dj.dancecult.net/index.php/journal/index
Vol 1, No 1 (2009)
Table of Contents
Editorials
Editor's Introduction
PDF HTML
Graham St John
Featured Articles
IDM as a "Minor" Literature: The Treatment of Cultural and Musical Norms by "Intelligent Dance Music"
Ramzy Alwakeel
Decline of the Rave Inspired Clubculture in China: State Suppression, Clubber Adaptations and S...
Dan's New Rules for News
Dan Gillmor:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/oct/02/dan-gillmor-22-rules-news
*This sure doesn't look much like traditional "news" to me. It looks like something different and quite weird, more like social media as a Fourth Estate.
*A society that had "news organizations" that behaved in these ways would be profoundly transformed. I don't mean it would become utopian or anything… but these ideas look like the behavioral standards of a deadly-earnest "network society," ...
Giant, Nuclear-Powered Favelas
*I don't see anything particularly implausible in here. It sounds kind of dry, pragmatic, factual and practical. It would also make one heck of a Bollywood movie.
From: sb@gbn.org
Subject: [SALT:] Globalizing Green (Stewart Brand talk)
Date: October 10, 2009 7:54:42 PM GMT+02:00
Brand built his case for rethinking environmental goals and methods on two major changes going on in the world. The one that most people still don't take into consideration is that power is shifting to the...
Be Realistic, Demand the Impossible in Istanbul
*I don't want to pick on the Turks or anything, but if Istanbul… Istanbul?! — gave in to even ONE of these political demands… no, let's say Istanbul gives into ONE PERCENT of ALL of these demands… Istanbul would instantly become one of the weirdest, most interesting cities in the world. An Istanbul full of gay leftist occupied squats in the formerly gentrified districts? Man, that would be like Orhan Pamuk on acid.
http://resistanbul.wordpress.com/
Conclusion report of 1-8 October...
The Heavy Players in the Current Indian Government
*This has a very "cast of a technothriller" feeling to it.
*By the way, if you want to read an out-there Indian technothriller,
"Bunker 13″ by Aniruddha Bahal will get the job done for you.
http://www.the-south-asian.com/August...
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/In...
THE TIMES OF INDIA
UPA's 10 Most Powerful People
TOI Crest 10 October 2009, 11:03am IST
Power lists are always a contentious affair. Rating the country's...
And, Yet Another Pirate Manifesto
*This one looks like it's been written by some guy with a relatively coherent interest in conventional fringe politics. I'm expecting an internal eruption as to whether people with a piratical approach to hacking property rights ought to call themselves "pirates" or not. Maybe leftie pirates can become "corsairs" and rightie pirates can be "buccaneers."
*Looks like there oughta be a big hole in the political landscape for National Socialist Pirates, who would say, "Piratistan Uber Alles!...
Virtual Autopsy
*Okay, it's not "augmented." It's good old-fashioned virtual. But boy, is it ever imaging.
"The technique opens up for new opportunities in countries where autopsies are not accepted due to cultural reasons." Everybody's got a niche app in mind, these days.
The Virtual Autopsy Table from NorrköpingsVisualiseringscenter on Vimeo.
*How about some socially networked virtual autopsies with tags and a rating system? "Was I hot, or not?"
RepRap watch: Mendel's working
*RepRap is the ne plus ultra of metaphysical Favela Chic.
*Mendel is the new evolved RepRap. Mendel looks visibly chic-er than the old RepRap.
*If these things ever shed their memetic geek-DNA and become cute
and cuddly, we're in for it.
Mendel's first print from Rep Rap on Vimeo.
Desktop Forgery
*I can remember computer-security maven Donn Parker publicly predicting
this behavior seventeen years ago. I was all impressed at the time, too.
"Gosh, desktop forgery, gee, why not, why wouldn't they? How darkly plausible!"
*I wonder if this hapless small-scale malefactor ever heard of "desktop forgery."
Very likely not. He probably scanned a train ticket on a lark, saw it pass through
the system, thought cheerily, "blimey, that's not hard at all," and became
another drop in the bucket of a 4...
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