February 2012
17 posts
Linux from Scratch →
ghoulmann:
Linux From Scratch (LFS) is a project that provides you with step-by-step instructions for building your own custom Linux system, entirely from source code.
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“Technology stories involve blinking lights, whirring sounds, and someone...”
– Mike Daisey’s response to David Pogue’s dispatch on Apple/Foxconn is very much worth reading. (via cnnmoneytech)
“Within a repressive society, even progressive movements threaten to turn into...”
– Herbert Marcuse, Repressive Tolerance (1965)
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Vic Toews, meet Fake Ann Cavoukian - Macleans.ca →
aaronleaf:
lukesimcoe:
My latest piece for Maclean’s. Enjoy!
How do we know you didn’t just email interview yourself?
lukesimcoe replied to your post: Onticology,... →
dropouthangoutspaceout:
lukesimcoe:
dropouthangoutspaceout:
At this point Luke, I would invite you to read the introduction to Democracy of Objects, which discusses more in depth why questions of ontology matter. Here is a little bit…
I feel like the response to anything I say about this stuff is always “but ontology is important, man…” I get this. It’s deduction; the first principles you...
“So many of the TED talks take on the form of those famous patent medicine tonic...”
– Nathan Jurgenson, “Against TED” in The New Inquiry (via getradified)
BOOSH.
(via lukesimcoe)
REAL TALK
Panel Discussion
The Neoliberal University and Globalization: a Discussion on the Fate or Future of the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences as Critical and Forces
Panel Discussion:
Speakers
Enda Brophy, Communication, SFU
Catherine Murray, Chair of Gender, Sexuality and Women Studies Department, Communication, SFU
Sabine Bitter, Contemporary Arts, SFU
Colin Browne, Contemporary Arts, SFU
All Welcome...
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“The internal contradictions in the dynamic of capitalist accumulation can be...”
– The Moving Contradiction: the systematic dialectic of class struggle.
Endnotes #2, April 2010: Misery and Value Form
(via marxandsparks)
“the fact that all our analyses are essentially flawed is better celebrated than...”
– Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Studies
“Unless I am very much mistaken, your dialectic lacks one thing: mediation.”
– Theodor Adorno, in a letter to Walter Benjamin
This sentence is so hilarious to me (via sonofapritch)
Technosociology: On Killing at Close Range,... →
techsoc:
If you do, as I have done, read a great deal about history of atrocities and mass killings you learn this: it turns out that it is awfully hard to kill people one by one, unless greatly aided by training and technology. It also turns out, it’s awfully easy for people to die in crowded situations.
January 2012
28 posts
“Here we have, in place of an isolated machine, a mechanical monster whose body...”
– Marx, Capital I
Love it, Karl.
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“Whatever the eventual success or failure of [the] efforts to alter the nature of...”
– Mackenzie, Marx and the Machine
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Gary Hall - Withdrawal of labour from publishers... →
Media theorist Gary Hall withdraws his labour from presses supporting the Research Works Act.
“As an aside in a discussion of the status of the concepts of economics, Karl...”
– Donald Mackenzie, Marx and the Machine
“Now, in contemporary industrialized democracies, the legitimate administration...”
– David Graeber (via bbcity)
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Dev-Team Blog: Welcome new A5 jailbreakers! →
devteam:
Here’s a quick breakdown of how many A5 owners have jailbroken their devices since Friday morning. The numbers as of Monday afternoon are:
491,325 new iPhone4,1 devices
308,967 new iPad2 devices
152,940 previously jailbroken (at 4.x) iPad2 devices
Total: 953,232 new A5 jailbreaks in a little…
luke simulacrum: RIP MegaUpload... →
lukesimcoe:
Who knows exactly why the site was shut down… But it doesn’t change a thing IRT file-sharing. As evidence, here is a list of alternative storage locker sites which essentially provide the exact same service:
Rapidshare
Hotfile
FileSonic
Wupload
Uploaded
Letitbit
Extabit
FileServe
…
“The nature of academic and research librarianship changed today. Today, all...”
– So this just happened. (Twitter channel.)
Well, this is alarming. (via towerofsleep)
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Marxist Literary Group--CFP (Vancouver) special...
CFP: 2012 MLG Institute on Culture and Society, 06/25-29/2012, Simon Fraser University,
Vancouver BC, Canada
Call for Papers
2012 Marxist Literary Group Institute on Culture and Society
Special Topic: “Capital, Culture, Communism”
Deadline for Proposals: March 1, 2012.
The Marxist Literary Group’s 2012 Institute on Culture and Society (2012 MGF-ICS) will convene this...
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“Technology reveals the active relation of man to nature, the direct process of...”
– Karl Marx (via ariellecohen)
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“As the history of class struggle demonstrates, privileging one sector of the...”
– George Caffentzis & Sylvia Federici, “Notes on the Edu-Factory and Cognitive Capitalism,” in Toward a Global Autonomous University (p. 128). (via mandescending)
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“The capitalist system presupposes the complete separation of the labourers from...”
– “The Secret of Primitive Accumulation,” Capital I
Doing research on the subject/object relation and Alienation in Marx. Plus I haven’t quoted Karl in a while.
Scrunch time: The peculiar physics of crumpled... →
standardgrey:
newscientist.com
When you crumple up your gift-wrapping paper this year, you’ll create a shape so complex that it has defeated the most sophisticated computers
WHEN you throw out your Christmas wrapping paper this year, don’t tell Narayanan Men…
Duuuuuuuuude
Pentagon using Time Holes to make Events Disappear →
Monday, in Vancouver, Silvia Federici and George...
Monday January 9
SFU CounterCulture Series Presents,
Emancipating Knowledge:
Austerity, Education and the Global Debt Strike Movement
A discussion with Silvia Federici and George Caffentzis
6-8pm, Room 1520
SFU Harbour Centre
(515 West Hastings St.)
Free and Open to the Public
Bios:
Silvia Federici is a long time feminist activist, teacher and writer. She was a co-founder of the...
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“Dialectics is one that I’ve never understood, actually—I’ve just never...”
– Noam Chomsky
(source: noamisright, via marxandsparks)
This is patently untrue, he addresses and uses the phrase in his preface to Das Kapital in a letter signed London, 24 January 1873. However in a way Noam’s right,
The problem here is, however, that Marx never wrote a tract on dialectics, and...
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“For each object, as for each picture in an art gallery, there is an optimum...”
– Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception (via hollovv)
December 2011
18 posts
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“In sum, the only evidence [Adorno and Horkheimer find] that something better is...”
– Feenberg on A & H’s 1956 dialogue on the theme of a ‘new manifesto’ and locating potentiality in the critical capabilities of artists and theoreticians.
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In the absence of a transecendental saving power,...
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