MachineMachine /stream - tagged with cult http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com File Sharing Is Now an Official Religion In Sweden http://gizmodo.com/5873001/file-sharing-is-now-an-official-religion-in-sweden/file-sharing-is-now-an-official-religion-in-sweden File Sharing Is now an official Religion In Sweden: The Missionary Church of Kopimism http://t.co/Fq8kKFKr #CtrlC #CtrlV #copying #Piracy ]]> Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:52:39 -0700 http://gizmodo.com/5873001/file-sharing-is-now-an-official-religion-in-sweden/file-sharing-is-now-an-official-religion-in-sweden Hausu (1977) Killer Lampshade http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOBCMoDGGZU&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Tue, 12 Oct 2010 04:02:00 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOBCMoDGGZU&feature=youtube_gdata On Seeing (an Imitation) http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2010/01/on-seeing-an-imitation.html

by Daniel Rourke

“Mimesis here is not the representation of one thing by another, the relation of resemblance or of identification between two beings, the reproduction of a product of nature by a product of art. It is not the relation of two products but of two productions. And of two freedoms... 'True' mimesis is between two producing subjects and not between two produced things.”

Jacques Derrida, Economimesis

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]]> Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:04:00 -0700 http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2010/01/on-seeing-an-imitation.html Cargo cult http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult A cargo cult is a type of religious practice that may appear in traditional tribal societies in the wake of interaction with technologically advanced cultures. The cults are focused on obtaining the material wealth (the "cargo") of the advanced culture through magical thinking and religious rituals and practices, believing that the wealth was intended for them by their deities and ancestors. Cargo cults developed primarily in remote parts of New Guinea and other Melanesian and Micronesian societies in the southwest Pacific Ocean, beginning with the first significant arrivals of Westerners in the 19th century. Similar behaviors have, however, also appeared…
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