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.