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Flying People in New York City (by ChronicleNYC)

Coolest ad for a movie. Watch the video and then read the relevant article on Techcrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/30/flying-people-spotted-over-new-york-city-film-at-nine/

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“We’re not dealing here with a ‘Will to Power’ or a ‘Decline of the Western Society’ but with a ‘Recline of the West’ and a ‘Will to Virtuality’. The recliner is a new representative persona on the stage of world history. The recliner is the best captured by the US tv-series, ‘The Simpsons’. “Just blame it on the guy who doesn’t speak English, oh, he works for me.” Truely retro-fascist ideas put it the mouth of cartoon characters”

Data Trash (The Theory of the Virtual Class) | Mute

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“This is not a condition that only characterises the class struggle in Greece, or even one that suddenly emerged in the current crisis. The global capitalist restructuring, which dismantles the social democratic institutions that guarantee survival for unemployed populations, began long ago. In so many ways it represents a return of the working class to its ‘proper’ condition, to its ‘proper’ entirely dependent relation to capital. Unemployment, both as a constant risk and a potentially long-term condition, as precarity, as integral to the condition of the working class, is becoming ever more prominent today. However, the current stage of crisis and restructuring is not a return to the situation existing prior to the birth of social democracy. The capitalist restructuring that began in the late ’70s - characterised by the drive to reduce the cost of labour power through the development of advanced technology, the global zoning of production, and financialisation, with credit supplementing falling wages (up until 2007) to aid the reproduction of labour power in the western world - was a response to an earlier crisis of overaccumulation. The prospect of a renewed Keynesian ‘deal’, of a realignment of consumption with the wage, to ‘productive’ industrial capitalism, and the separation of national economies, is no longer possible because it is precisely what had to be done away with to overcome that crisis. Most importantly, the real subsumption of labour under capital has advanced to a level where there is no longer any possibility of a flight from capital for surplus populations as was the case with, for example, the creation of alternative, non-capitalist communes in the 19th century and Great Depression-era America. Class struggle is forced to address the capital relation itself, at the same time as capital denies the proletariat’s role as the productive class which, as Théorie Communiste rightly argue, seriously undermines its ability to affirm itself within this antagonism.”

The Illegitimacy of Demands | Mute

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Rhizome | Hidden Information: The Work of Jim Sanborn

Cryptographic sculptures have already been exposed to the mainstream back in 2009, when Wired published an article on Kryptos, the now famous sculpture outside CIA’s headquarters: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/17-05/ff_kryptos?currentPage=all. 

“Artist Chris Jordan shows us an arresting view of what Western culture looks like. His supersized images picture some almost unimaginable statistics.”

TED Talk: Chris Jordan pictures some shocking stats (by TED)

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“We believe that the next step in copying will be made from digital form into physical form. It will be physical objects. Or as we decided to call them: Physibles. Data objects that are able (and feasible) to become physical. We believe that things like three dimensional printers, scanners and such are just the first step. We believe that in the nearby future you will print your spare sparts for your vehicles. You will download your sneakers within 20 years.”

The Pirate Bay - The galaxy’s most resilient bittorrent site

TPB on 3D printing and the future of sharing

Source thepiratebay.org

Citing Ayn Rand

‎”Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage — the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors.” -Ayn Rand

Even if I disagree in many parts with the philosophical corpus that Ayn Rand has left us, the above quote on racism encapsulates a powerful argument against the genetic preconditioning of a person’s fate. 


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culturejunkie: The Dark Knight Rises Viral Campaign Launches.  Warner Bros. have kicked off their viral marketing campaign for Chris Nolan’s final chapter in the Batman trilogy. Releasing of a pair of leaked “CIA documents” referring to a Dr. Leonid Pavel who if online rumours are true, is thought to be villain, ‘Professor Hugo Strange’.  The document shows a mug-shot of actor Alon Aboutboul, alongside the profile of nuclear physicist Pavel followed by a transcript between a CIA official and a militia unit, concerning possible asylum for the Doctor, who apparently fears for his life.   Much of the accompanying information has been blacked out but still, it sure is driving excitement on the inter’web for the upcoming release. Excited or confused much?  Source totalfilm

culturejunkie:

The Dark Knight Rises Viral Campaign Launches.

 Warner Bros. have kicked off their viral marketing campaign for Chris Nolan’s final chapter in the Batman trilogy.

Releasing of a pair of leaked “CIA documents” referring to a Dr. Leonid Pavel who if online rumours are true, is thought to be villain, ‘Professor Hugo Strange’. 

The document shows a mug-shot of actor Alon Aboutboul, alongside the profile of nuclear physicist Pavel followed by a transcript between a CIA official and a militia unit, concerning possible asylum for the Doctor, who apparently fears for his life.  

Much of the accompanying information has been blacked out but still, it sure is driving excitement on the inter’web for the upcoming release.

Excited or confused much? 

Source totalfilm

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futuramb: The Future of Science, Technology & Well-Being: A Ten-Year View | Institute For The Future 10 year Forecast map Forecast report series Artifacts from the future Response Innovation Deck

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The Future of Science, Technology & Well-Being: A Ten-Year View | Institute For The Future

  • 10 year Forecast map
  • Forecast report series
  • Artifacts from the future
  • Response Innovation Deck

(via emergentfutures)

Source iftf.org

“For Virilio, even reality is divided or more accurately it is substituted with another - a virtual one that becomes more powerful mediated by the new technologies. That is why the essay that goes along with the installation begins with a quote by Virilio: One day the virtual world might overwhelm over the real world. This is that same virtual reality in which monitors you look at your existence. It is Virilio that warned us that almost every critique toward the technology disappeared and that we unconsciously accept every innovation without critical view on its consequences, by which we slip in the dogmatism of totalitarian techno-culture. All of this is criticising the way technology changes the contemporary world and human himself, recognising a key factor in technology that determines the modern world.”

Failed utopia: The art of surveillance and simulating control: An interview with Toni Dimitrov | www.furtherfield.org

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