Category Archives: Internet

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Morozov, Graeber’s “diversity of tactics”, and Technological Justice

So I mentioned on Facebook today viz. Morozov’s somewhat unhinged and vitriolic twitter stream that I’m increasingly unwilling to denounce people for simply taking different tactical approaches to the same (or same enough) issue, specifically referencing (what I mistakenly called) Graeber’s … Continue reading

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Extremely Dangerous African Water

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Well this is weird: twitter account swapping

So Sam Crisp tweeted the following a day ago, and I only just saw it: Who wants to run my twitter account for a week? See what happens lol I thought it was a good idea, and something I’ve been … Continue reading

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Is this review of David Graeber’s new book a performative demonstration of his correctness?

Well, I wish it were, but there’s one good reason why I don’t think it is. But let me back up: I read this extract from Graeber’s new book (I’m guessing it’s probably from the introduction?) which is just fantastic. There’s something … Continue reading

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Verbal Shaq Attack

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The end-game of labour automation meets social media

So if we take the idea that social media users are the labour force that produces the product (social graph, for Facebook, adjust as relevant to your preferred social media platform) then how come no one has thought about the eventual endgame … Continue reading

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Links from Avatar of the Book event

I’m at the Avatar of the Book event in Sydney today, and a couple of interesting talks with some great examples that I just wanted to link to, mostly so I don’t forget. Grouped according to the speaker who mentioned … Continue reading

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Non-human gamer

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Jason Wilson on twitter & academic professionalism

This is probably the best thing on twitter by anyone I can recall. I love a great number of these ideas and think there’s huge room for expansion of the core: Twitter performance as “generally improvisatory rather than studied” is … Continue reading

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[talk] Flarf ‘poetry’ and the Facebook tagging algorithm

So I gave a short paper at CODE last week entitled ‘Flarf ‘poetry’ and the Facebook tagging algorithm’ and got lots of positive comments and questions afterwards. Here’s an embed of the audio, and here’s a direct download. The slides to … Continue reading

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