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DESIGNER + RESEARCHER + ARTIST + STUDENT + THEORIST + CONCEPTUALIST + PROGRAMMER + WRITER + NETWORKER
5 years, 4 months ago
Crowdfunding Campaign To Pay Fine For Tony Abbott Insult
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2015/08/25/crowdfunding-tony-abbott_n_8034372.html

5 years, 5 months ago
Radical Intimacies: The Many Different Fruits From Our Dialogue
5 years, 6 months ago
This looks good:
In the Facebook Aquarium: The Resistible Rise of Anarcho-Capitalism, Ippolita
From the publishers web site:
In their new work research collective Ippolita provides a critical investigation of the inner workings of Facebook as a model for all commercial social networks. Facebook is an extraordinary platform that can generate large profit from the daily activities of its users. Facebook may appear to be a form of free entertainment and self-promotion but in reality its users are working for the development of a new type of market where they trade relationships. As users of social media we have willingly submitted to a vast social, economic and cultural experiment.
By critically examining the theories of Californian right-libertarians, Ippolita show the thread con- necting Facebook to the European Pirate Parties, WikiLeaks and beyond. An important task today is to reverse the logic of radical transparency and apply it to the technologies we use on a daily basis. The algorithms used for online advertising by the new masters of the digital world – Facebook, Apple, Google and Amazon – are the same as those used by despotic governments for personalized repression. Ippolita argues we should not give in to the logic of conspiracy or paranoia instead we must seek to develop new ways of autonomous living in our networked society.
Download the book here: http://networkcultures.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/TOD15def.pdf

5 years, 6 months ago
" the worst thing you did to us was to make politicians out of all of us"

5 years, 6 months ago
"THe link is not working!..."

5 years, 7 months ago
"U.S.-Cuba deal expected in early July to restore ties, reopen embassies
http://www.reuters.com/ar..."

5 years, 7 months ago
Memefest Cuba! Change in Everyday Life: Dialogue and Critique through Design in our Times
Memefest Workshop: Change in Everyday Life: Dialogue and Critique through Design in our Times
Ins...

5 years, 7 months ago
Imaginary POSTERS : MAPPING Workshops
London College of Communication
Wed 10th June
– 16.00 in room D209
Lecture by Oliver Vodeb:...
5 years, 7 months ago
A reminder that your Instagram photos aren’t really yours: Someone else can sell them for $90,000
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2015/05/25/a-reminder-that-your-instagram-photos-arent-really-yours-someone-else-can-sell-them-for-90000/?utm_content=buffer50ab4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
5 years, 8 months ago
If the form-filling that plagues academia is pointless, why do academics comply with it?
"Yet it does not account for the moralising and punitive manner in which bureaucratic demands are formulated. They are derived from private sector managerialism, yet while they have been largely flushed out of business itself, they are applied to academia in a correctional spirit, as if it is not behaving in a sufficiently businesslike manner."
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/bureaucracy-why-wont-scholars-break-their-paper-chains/2020256.fullarticle#.VV7akHDzqcU.facebook
5 years, 8 months ago
The mapping of power structures masters Bureau d'Etudes have published a book with a large selection of their maps and reflections on them. Atlas of Agendas, looking very good:
http://bureaudetudes.org/2015/04/23/atlas-of-agendas-mapping-the-power-mapping-the-commons-2015/
5 years, 8 months ago
Tehran Becomes Giant Open-Air Art Gallery
The city's mayor had 1,500 billboards, which were once covered with advertisements, replaced with reproductions of works of art from some Western and Iranian artists...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/07/tehran-art-gallery_n_7233522.html
5 years, 8 months ago
Techniques of the Observer.
LAURA POITRAS and HITO STEYERL in Conversation about filmmaking, perception, disclosure, encryption, and the promise and peril of the image.

5 years, 8 months ago
Here is an WIRED article titled:"The Age of Drone Vandalism Begins With an Epic NYC Tag"
http://www.wired.com/2015/04/age-drone-vandalism-begins-epic-nyc-tag/
Is there a future for Drones as Culture Jamming/disruption technology? Seems so.
5 years, 9 months ago
The Real Reason College Tuition Costs So Much
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/opinion/sunday/the-real-reason-college-tuition-costs-so-much.html?WT.mc_id=2015-APRIL-FACEBOOK-PROPENSITY_OPINION-AUD_DEV-0401-0430&WT.mc_ev=click&ad-keywords=AUDDEVAPRIL&_r=0
5 years, 9 months ago
In the lonely Cockpit of our Lives- Franco Bifo Berardi on the Germanwings Tragedy, which is believed to have been intentionally crashed by co-pilot Andreas Lubitz
http://versobooks.tumblr.com/post/115308993283/in-the-lonely-cockpit-of-our-lives-franco-bifo
5 years, 9 months ago
ISIS to Exhibit Floating Pavilion of Art Destruction at Venice Biennale?
http://hyperallergic.com/195279/isis-to-exhibit-floating-pavilion-of-art-destruction-at-venice-biennale/
5 years, 9 months ago
Facebook tracks the web browsing of everyone who visits a page on its site even if the user does not have an account or has explicitly opted out of tracking.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/31/facebook-tracks-all-visitors-breaching-eu-law-report


Username
mnermal
Name
Robbie Cormier
Birth year
1989
Gender
male
Country
Canada
Website
Faculty
Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at Western University
Music I like
Laughing Stock by Talk Talk · Spirit of Eden by Talk Talk · Hearts of Palm by Idaho · The Air Force by Xiu Xiu · Standards by Tortoise · Ravedeath, 1972 by Tim Hecker · Ardour by Teebs · The Enchanter Persuaded by Sinoia Caves · The Sound of the Colour of the Sun by SIANspheric · Loveless by My Bloody Valentine · Kid A by Radiohead · Doolittle by Pixies · Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd · Replica by Oneohtrix Point Never · Low-life by New Order · No Flashlight by Mount Eerie · Kind of Blue by Miles Davis · The Glow, Pt. 2 by The Microphones · Mezzanine by Massive Attack · Sound of Silver by LCD Soundsystem · Grace by Jeff Buckley · Love Remains by How to Dress Well · Disintegration by The Cure · Calling Out of Context by Arthur Russell +++
Books I like
Schizoanalytic Cartographies by Félix Guattari · Chaosophy by Félix Guattari · Soft Subversions by Félix Guattari · Escape the Overcode by Brian Holmes · The Exploit by Alexander Galloway & Eugene Thacker · Philosophy and Simulation by Manuel DeLanda · Foucault by Gilles Deleuze · Steps to an Ecology of Mind by Gregory Bateson · The Practice of Everyday Life by Michel de Certeau · Dark Fiber by Geert Lovink · Cyber-Marx by Nick Dyer-Witheford · Negative Horizon by Paul Virilio · A Hacker Manifesto by McKenzie Wark · Cyclonopedia by Reza Negarestani · Sciences of the Artificial by Herbert Simon · Metapolitics by Alain Badiou · Wonderboys by Michael Chabon · Oracle Night by Paul Auster · Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut · White Noise by Don DeLillo · Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky +++
Films I like
Stalker by Andrey Tarkovsky · Adaptation by Spike Jonze · Synecdoche, New York by Charlie Kauffman · Being John Malkovich by Spike Jonze · Blow-up by Michelangelo Antonioni · Melancholia by Lars von Trier · Eraserhead by David Lynch · Children of Men by Alfonso Cuarón · Lost in Translation by Sofia Coppola · Pi by Darren Aronofsky · High Fidelity by Stephen Frears +++

5 years, 8 months ago