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Frankenstein’s Monster saysBy marcmoss

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:10:38 +0100

Frankenstein’s Monster says

By marcmoss

The Transcendence of The Ego (by DerrickT)

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:17:20 +0100

The Transcendence of The Ego (by DerrickT)

"What was made to look like a series of disconnected incidents now appears as what it always was: a..."

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:00:19 +0100

“What was made to look like a series of disconnected incidents now appears as what it always was: a worldwide web of corruption whose murkiness resembles something out of The Wire or a David Peace novel. A dark network comprising private investigators, the criminal underworld, tabloid newspapers, multinational media conglomerates, the police, politicians, the banks, and the bodies supposed to regulate them (who are at best impotent, at worst part of the problem) cannot now be kept hidden from public scrutiny. This is less a conspiracy than a network of complicities: fear on all sides, nobody trusting anybody else, the whole thing depending on who’s got the goods on whom … Cops watching hacks watching cops; threatened politicans looking for favours …”

- This is the news of the world…

110708 Reality Management: Hack-gate, Hari, Milibot and the Cyber War: Mark Fisher, K-Punk: openDemocracy

"What Dawkins says is that we are just machines - our function is just machines whose role is to..."

Tue, 24 May 2011 11:36:00 +0100

“What Dawkins says is that we are just machines - our function is just machines whose role is to allow embedded systems to carry on over time. And what these systems are doing is playing mathematical games of strategy against each other, hoping to survive. So we become soft, fleshy machines to carry these codes. I think that’s another example of a system that diminishes us. We’ve embraced it quite happily, because it offers us a retreat from trying to change the world. Whatever we do, liberals, the right, corporations, in recent history it seems to lead to unforseen consequences. We throw up our hands and go, “Oh dear!”.”

- 110524 Adam Curtis: The Rise of the Machines: The Register

McDonald's Wi-Fi blocks spark anger

Wed, 11 May 2011 12:30:05 +0100

McDonald's Wi-Fi blocks spark anger

(via Truth in Advert-fries-ing - Core77)

Wed, 11 May 2011 12:24:00 +0100

(via Truth in Advert-fries-ing - Core77)

Paddington to Ealing Broadway (by markhillary)

Wed, 11 May 2011 12:18:11 +0100

Paddington to Ealing Broadway

(by markhillary)

"Essentially the system we have evolved is based around wealthy farmers feeding the poor crap, cheap..."

Wed, 11 May 2011 11:46:59 +0100

“Essentially the system we have evolved is based around wealthy farmers feeding the poor crap, cheap food, and poor farmers feeding the wealthy high-quality, expensive food.”

- Real-food campaigner Michael Pollan: how the food industry works.

110510 Guardian

Vacant Taco Bell, Pinconning, Michigan. (by wachovia_138)

Tue, 10 May 2011 14:03:00 +0100

Vacant Taco Bell, Pinconning, Michigan.

(by wachovia_138)

New Taco Bell, Janesville, Wisconsin. (by compujeramey)

Tue, 10 May 2011 14:01:00 +0100

New Taco Bell, Janesville, Wisconsin.

(by compujeramey)

Taco Bell and the Golden Age of Drive-Thru

Tue, 10 May 2011 13:32:00 +0100

Taco Bell and the Golden Age of Drive-Thru:

After a while, I do begin to detect a pleasing, steady rhythm to the system, the transaction, the delivery of the food. Each is a discrete, predictable, scripted interaction. When the order is input correctly, the customer drives up to the window, the money is paid, the Frutista Freeze or Atomic Bacon Bombers (a test item specific to this Taco Bell) handed over, and you send people on their way with a smile and a “Thank you for coming to Taco Bell,” you feel a moment of accomplishment. And so does Harkins, for it has all gone exactly as he has planned.

- Karl Taro Greenfeld

110505 Businessweek

Alienation. Porto, Portugal. (by Arianna_M)

Wed, 04 May 2011 17:05:36 +0100

Alienation. Porto, Portugal.

(by Arianna_M)

… stuff (by x-ray delta one)

Wed, 04 May 2011 17:01:14 +0100

… stuff

(by x-ray delta one)

Back in 1984: Commodore Vic 20 (by Extra Ketchup)

Wed, 04 May 2011 16:57:36 +0100

Back in 1984: Commodore Vic 20

(by Extra Ketchup)

"my standards for technological innovation:- 1. The new tool should be cheaper than the one it..."

Wed, 04 May 2011 16:50:00 +0100

“

my standards for technological innovation:-

1. The new tool should be cheaper than the one it replaces.
2. It should be at least as small in scale as the one it replaces.
3. It should do work that is clearly and demonstrably better than the one it replaces.
4. It should use less energy than the one it replaces.
5. If possible, it should use some form of solar energy, such as that of the body.
6. It should be repairable by a person of ordinary intelligence, provided that he or she has the necessary tools.
7. It should be purchasable and repairable as near to home as possible.
8. It should come from a small, privately owned shop or store that will take it back for maintenance and repair.
9. It should not replace or disrupt anything good that already exists, and this includes family and community relationships.

”

- Wendell Berry

1987 Why I am NOT Going to Buy a Computer

Order and Progress opening (by Rosa Menkman)

Tue, 03 May 2011 13:45:48 +0100

Order and Progress opening (by Rosa Menkman)

"This is to inform you what you have to undergo. Gentlemen if providing you don’t pull down your..."

Tue, 03 May 2011 13:43:55 +0100

“This is to inform you what you have to undergo. Gentlemen if providing you don’t pull down your meshenes and rise the poor mens wages the maried men give tow and six pence a day a day the singel tow shillings. or we will burn down your barns and you in them this is the last notis”

- A letter from “Captain Swing” to farmers introducing a new threshing machine, 1830.

From Captain Swing: A Social History of the Great English Agricultural Uprising of 1830, Eric Hobsbawm and George Rudé p208.

Observatori (by Rosa Menkman)

Tue, 03 May 2011 13:33:59 +0100

Observatori (by Rosa Menkman)

"a kind of not-fully-abandoned utopian wish for an appropriate, even benign kind of technology, a..."

Tue, 03 May 2011 10:16:00 +0100

“a kind of not-fully-abandoned utopian wish for an appropriate, even benign kind of technology, a machine in the garden humans could live with, lives alongside or lies behind modern neo-Luddism and, more often than not, is the symmetrical flipside to the paranoid suspicions of the neo- Luddites. Many neo-Luddites react to the secrets and lies, the broken promises, of technological progress with the profound disappointment of the brokenhearted.”

- 06 Against Technology: Steven E Jones p21

Shimokitazawa, Tokyo, Japan. (by Guwashi999)

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:32:00 +0100

Shimokitazawa, Tokyo, Japan.

(by Guwashi999)