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June 3, 2009
Adbusters. Revolution and Nihilism.
*I wondered where Adbusters would go after the ads were well and truly busted.
You know how much money GM owes to big ad agencies? Enough to
blow the wheels off them. They are in mortal danger.
*Nice to hear that the new frontier is Nihilism! Yeah man!
“Jammers, creatives, memesters,
“Nihilism has long been an abstraction: the dark muse of poetry, philosophy and art. But now we are confronted with the moment when this experiment of ours on Planet Earth meets its spectacular and terrifying end, w
June 2, 2009
The Tuff-Writer Tactical Defense Pen
*That’s right, fanboy. You’re laughing. NOW.
*As approved by no less a bareknuckle brawler than Warren Ellis.
Tuff-Writer FAQ
Q: Why do I need a tactical / defense pen?
A: Because it’s a dangerous world out there and the price of being unprepared is just too high. With the growth of non-permissive environments (places where guns, knives, pepper-sprays and sharp sticks are prohibited) (((”non-permissive environments” known as “safe places” to the bozos who deprived you of
Posh Spice and Generative Architecture, together at last
*There’s probably some humorless panjandrum someplace who will find this
link-up somehow declasse’, but man, that sure won’t be me. This image is just kind
of the aw3some. It’s figuratively straight out of a Bruce Sterling novel, most probably
ZEITGEIST (2000).
http://victoriabeckham-jenna.blogspot.com/2009/05/victoria-beckhams-lombez-dress-featured.htm
June 1, 2009
Ellen Lupton on the structure of transmedia
*Not too shabby for work presciently written five years ago, Ellen!
I think I better buy that book but… oh wait, that would require
some “extended reading.” Twitter is calling, sorry!
http://www.elupton.com/index.php?id=38
(…)
“How texts are used becomes more important than what they mean. Someone clicked here to get over there. Someone who bought this also bought that. The interactive environment not only provides users with a degree of control and self-direction but also, more quietly and insidi
Somebody was bound to put the boot into GM, and it might as well be him
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?id=248
Monday, June 1st, 2009
Goodbye, GM …by Michael Moore
I write this on the morning of the end of the once-mighty General Motors. By high noon, the President of the United States will have made it official: General Motors, as we know it, has been totaled.
As I sit here in GM’s birthplace, Flint, Michigan, I am surrounded by friends and family who are filled with anxiety about what will happen to them and to the town. Forty percent of the homes
‘Cyberspace is Real,’ Declares President of United States
*The Obama administration has just released much documentation about its
new effort to secure cyberspace. Since this is a long-standing interest on
BEYOND THE BEYOND, I’m sticking a ton of that stuff into this post here.
*Now, I don’t want to be any big curmudgeon and nay-sayer about this noble effort –
it’s pleasant to see the usual posturing making so many correct new noises.
But let me explain why I have my doubts about the prospects for success here.
*Let’s start with “cyberspace.” There is
May 31, 2009
Spime Watch: Embracing Compression
(…)
Embracing compression
After moving into a teeny New York studio and going through the psychically exhausting task of purging possessions, I found myself frozen in the middle of the room holding the dictionary in my hands, quickly coming to terms with an inevitable fact: it had to go. Many people gasp at the notion of doing away with books (clothes, yes, electronics, of course, b
Militant-modernist socialist archifuturism
http://nastybrutalistandshort.blogspot.com/2009/05/future-is-boring.html
“… so what if the Labour movement was obliterated, so an entire history and tradition of working class culture was wilfully destroyed - can’t you just get over it and enjoy looking at pictures of the new cultural district in Abu Dhabi?
“Although my writing is driven by a feeling that those of us born in the 70s, 80s and 90s were cheated out of a certain kind of future - the future outlined in Patrick Keiller’s London of ‘what
May 30, 2009
The New Television mutates analog television
*And you thought analog *print* had some problems.
*Slavin goes on for quite some time. 25 minutes maybe. About
every three minutes he gets radically weirder.
*The rest of the panelists also pile on.
5D Conference : New Television Pt 4 - Kevin Slavin from Dave Blass on Vimeo.
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