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February 7, 2010

@F414 There is no such thing as “capitalism” #

@sdv_duras @F414 [..] are you going to explain why we cannot describe the dominant socio-economic system in a term ? #

@F414 @sdv_duras “capitalism”is based ona simplistic,monolithic view of reality that is in turn based ona simplistic,deterministic view of history #

@sdv_duras @F414 of course I disagree but then you already knew that didn’t you, but then I tend to think that naming something helps us understand it #

@pareidoliac @sdv_duras @f414 naming may assist understanding and equally contribute to making hidden other things… #

@sdv_duras @pareidoliac sure i agree with that, but I would still maintain that a definition and name is a useful starting point… for example without # the name and concept of ‘feminism’ … well we know what that would mean in our society # […] I’m not speaking as a leftist here but as someone interested in why specific acts of naming are being refused # for example where ANT theorists refuse the notion of capitalism they end up with something un-understandable by non academics # for some reason that really bothers me… #

@pareidoliac @sdv_duras well i agree with @f414 that capitalism tends to be used in totalizing ways that are hardly productive of understanding # when used by non academics, ‘capitalism’ often tends to be entirely absurd! # when used by Marxist academics, ‘capitalism’ tends to play into a game of reification # perhaps if those who like the term were less ambitious with their goals… # i wonder if ‘capitalism’ is as misleading as ‘democracy’ or ‘terrorism’ for that matter? #

@sdv_duras @pareidoliac - that’s a different thing entirely, a matter of academicism, not being one its not my concern # a term like capital is a short hand which you can unpack and use, it’s a tool how you unpack it and use it is what amatters #

@pareidoliac @sdv_duras i agree with you re: ‘capital’ yet when we look at so many cases of how this is unpacked and used… that IS what matters! #

@sdv_duras @pareidoliac - if you reject all the huamn ‘isms’ including religion, science, democracy, liberal etc you reject all human knowledge #

3:00pm | URL: http://micro.maximalis.me/post/376146673

"As I see it, the whole point of pragmatism is to insist that we human beings are answerable only to one another. We are answerable only to those who answer to us – only to conversation partners. We are not responsible either to the atoms or to God, at least not until they start conversing with us."

—

Richard Rorty: ‘Comments on Jeffrey Stout’s Democracy and Tradition’ (via fuckyeahphilosophy)

but what if they are & we just can’t hear them?

10:27am | URL: http://micro.maximalis.me/post/375867305

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FILED UNDER: philosophy communication

February 6, 2010

Tweets of Interest: Facebook Edition

@1D4TW “FACEBOOK.COM: intelligence agencies’ espionage site” http://bit.ly/b0wtJW

@PhilippaBeeb RT @cward1e The sudden rise of facebook as portal for news is staggering. This data gives weight to my anecdotes about my students http://bit.ly/bqjSlv

@PD_Smith Five journalists have spent the last five days locked up in a farmhouse in France w/ only Facebook & Twitter to rely on http://bit.ly/bpYCCY

@evgenymorozov the world is coming to an end: New York Review of Books reviews books about Facebook http://bit.ly/9vgYq5

@ybalagian The Post-Breakup Facebook Effect http://bit.ly/8LMLT5

More Information than You Ever Wanted [pdf] - link between time on facebook and romantic jealousy http://bit.ly/1ger84 via @researchdigest

@semioticmonkey APA Style Blog: How to Cite Twitter and Facebook, Part II: Reference List Entries and In-Text Citations http://tinyurl.com/yhxrbjp #biblio

1:44pm | URL: http://micro.maximalis.me/post/374110643

FILED UNDER: facebook internet twitter journalism academia politics love

Anonymous sent me this. Thanks Anonymous, this is a good thing.

7:22am | URL: http://micro.maximalis.me/post/373760205

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FILED UNDER: graphics philosophy you

February 4, 2010

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Tryo - Apocalypticodramatic

5:04pm | URL: http://micro.maximalis.me/post/370776312

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FILED UNDER: music

February 3, 2010

(via blackandwtf)

5:03pm | URL: http://micro.maximalis.me/post/368977524

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FILED UNDER: me photography war

"..knowledge is not a result merely of filtering or algorithms. It results from a far more complex process that is social, goal-driven, contextual, and culturally-bound. We get to knowledge — especially “actionable” knowledge — by having desires and curiosity, through plotting and play, by being wrong more often than right, by talking with others and forming social bonds, by applying methods and then backing away from them, by calculation and serendipity, by rationality and intuition, by institutional processes and social roles. Most important in this regard, where the decisions are tough and knowledge is hard to come by, knowledge is not determined by information, for it is the knowing process that first decides which information is relevant, and how it is to be used."

— The Problem with the Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom Hierarchy - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review (via wildcat2030)

1:58pm | URL: http://micro.maximalis.me/post/368775275

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FILED UNDER: knowledge education culture technology

"The question of the archive is not a question of the past. It is not the question of a concept dealing with the past that might already be at our disposal. An archivable concept of the archive. It is a question of the future, the question of the future itself, the question of a response, of a promise, and of a responsibility for tomorrow. The archive, if we want to know what that will have meant, we will only know in times to come; not tomorrow, but in times to come. Later on, or perhaps never."

— Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever, University of Chicago Press, 1996 (via butterflyhunt)

12:54pm | URL: http://micro.maximalis.me/post/368708578

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FILED UNDER: memory history philosophy

January 31, 2010

the only reason this #ipad thing even registered...

…is my love for theory war; to the death!

@psychemedia: Ipad isn’t for geeks’n’techies, “it just works”. Got that? “It just works”. It brings digital goods to folk who don’t use or want a computer # “A (personal) computer in every home”. Probably not. A TV in every home? Pretty much. An ipad in every home? Something like it… # aargghhh…most people are not geeks. Their phones, game consoles, cameras are not computers, they are phones, games consoles, cameras # my view is that what ipad range will come to represent is not primarily intended for anybody who is likely to read this… Maybe;-) #

@hauntagonist: Btw the iPad is a further evolution towards interpassivity-enabling technology. Touch only reinforces the paradox and myth of interactivity. # We do not lack communication. On the contrary we have too much of it. We lack *creation*. We lack resistance to the present -Deleuze #iPad #

@sdv_duras: @hauntagonist - does that not imply that all modern technologies are leading to increasing passivity ? #

hauntagonist: @sdv_duras I think I agree with that. #

@kpunk99: @hauntagonist Baudrillard For A Critique Of The Political Economy of The Sign is astonishingly prescient on these matters IMO #

via @josshands: @mckenziewark: Rather than phones becoming tiny computers, we’re going to get computers that are just big phones: closed, proprietary, unhackable. #

And then also this via @jayrosen_nyu & that by @sociologylens

fun!

4:38pm | URL: http://micro.maximalis.me/post/363378034

FILED UNDER: theory technology conflict capitalism Consumption culture

January 30, 2010

A quick guide to the maxims of new media

“We journalism/new media nerds like to think of ourselves as being pretty open, but we can be a bit clannish at times: We close ranks to defend a few core principles, we have our own hierarchy of gurus and we use our own set of words and phrases. When I dove into the future-of-journalism world, I quickly found that a few of these phrases function as shorthand for big, fundamental ideas. They often get traded without explanation and sometimes without links, leaving the uninitiated pretty confused and possibly a little turned off, too.

Consider this your dictionary for those phrases. If you’ve got any more suggestions, by all means, let me know in the comments. This guide is very expandable.”

via @jayrosen_nyu

10:10pm | URL: http://micro.maximalis.me/post/361992186

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FILED UNDER: media language genre journalism internet

January 29, 2010

"Where do I put the books?
There’s so many I could read -
but they all are filled with lies.
Where do I put the lies?
There’s so many I could say -
but it seems they’re in the books"

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VAST - Here [on youtube; on spotify]

all i know is that i’m here
drifting somewhere in the vast

1:49pm | URL: http://micro.maximalis.me/post/359635145

FILED UNDER: music knowledge truth

Charlie Brooker (@charltonbrooker) - How To Report The News

via @brookpete + Ian Aleksander Adams

10:00am | URL: http://micro.maximalis.me/post/359431222

FILED UNDER: tv journalism genre critique video

"This sentence contains a provocative statement that attracts the readers’ attention, but really only has very little to do with the topic of the blog post. This sentence claims to follow logically from the first sentence, though the connection is actually rather tenuous. This sentence claims that very few people are willing to admit the obvious inference of the last two sentences, with an implication that the reader is not one of those very few people. This sentence expresses the unwillingness of the writer to be silenced despite going against the popular wisdom. This sentence is a sort of drum roll, preparing the reader for the shocking truth to be contained in the next sentence."

— This is the title of a typical incendiary blog post - Coyote Crossing (via guerrillamamamedicine)

9:45am | URL: http://micro.maximalis.me/post/359419769

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FILED UNDER: internet language genre

January 28, 2010

New Left Project | UK

via @leninology

9:54am | URL: http://micro.maximalis.me/post/357687976

FILED UNDER: politics uk