http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com http://www.e-flux.com/journal/the-spam-of-the-earth/ Image spam is one of the many dark matters of the digital world; spam tries to avoid detection by filters by presenting its message as an image file. An inordinate amount of these images floats around the globe, desperately vying for human attention.2 They advertise pharmaceuticals, replica items, body enhancements, penny stocks, and degrees. According to the pictures dispersed via image spam, humanity consists of scantily dressed degree-holders with jolly smiles enhanced by orthodontic braces. ]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:32:48 -0700 http://www.e-flux.com/journal/the-spam-of-the-earth/ http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/internet-regulation-the-economics-of-piracy//internet-regulation-amp-the-economics-of-piracy-cato-liberty Internet Regulation & the Economics of Piracy http://t.co/CXiWp8I0 ]]> Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:08:17 -0700 http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/internet-regulation-the-economics-of-piracy//internet-regulation-amp-the-economics-of-piracy-cato-liberty http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-p2p-foundation-book-of-the-year-2011-our-annual-top-ten-list-of-p2p-books/2012/01/09/p2p-foundation-blog-archive-the-p2p-foundation-books-of-the-year-2011-our-annual-top-ten-list-of-p2p-books the ten best p2p books of 2011, our annual selection at the P2P Foundation, David Graeber's Debt is #1 http://t.co/RM8ZMuWh ]]> Mon, 09 Jan 2012 02:36:05 -0700 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-p2p-foundation-book-of-the-year-2011-our-annual-top-ten-list-of-p2p-books/2012/01/09/p2p-foundation-blog-archive-the-p2p-foundation-books-of-the-year-2011-our-annual-top-ten-list-of-p2p-books http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/2005/P2626.pdf/on-distributed-communications-networks Paul Baran (1962) ]]> Sun, 23 Oct 2011 15:08:44 -0700 http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/2005/P2626.pdf/on-distributed-communications-networks http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~rlrutsky/RR/Consumption.pdf  Although information spreads, virus-like, through replication, this replication, as Walter Benjamin foresaw, involves a dispersion that allows images or data to be seen in different places, in different contexts (what Benjamin (1969) called “exhibition value”). It is, however, only through the process of consumption that this reproduction and dissemination of data can occur. Consumption, in short, is the means by which information, whether expensive or free, reproduces and spreads. Information, in fact, depends upon consumption for its very existence. Without being consumed, it ceases to be information in any practical sense, becoming merely a static and inaccessible knowledge, an eternal… ]]> Wed, 03 Aug 2011 06:00:18 -0700 http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~rlrutsky/RR/Consumption.pdf http://darc.imv.au.dk/publicinterfaces/?p=150 Although the analysis of geek community as a recursive public sharing social imaginary of openness, and a moral order of freedom, is a valid frame to understand geek culture through a sociological point of view, adopting a dialectical perspective in the analysis of network dynamics might open an opportunity to question the notion of artistic intervention itself. This thread connects multiple identities projects and hacker practices of the last decade with business strategies of today, reflecting on the role of activists and artists in social media. Their interventions are thought as a challenge to generate a critical understanding of contemporary… ]]> Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:22:02 -0700 http://darc.imv.au.dk/publicinterfaces/?p=150 http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/delanda/pages/opensource.htm by Manuel DeLanda The plan of the essay is as follows. I will begin with a few definitions of technical terms ("source code", "compiler", "operating system") which are necessary to follow the rest of the paper. I will then discuss a few of the ideas put forward by open-source philosophers (Richard Stallman, Eric Raymond) focusing not on their weaknesses but on their practical consequences. In particular, Stallman's achievements go beyond the creation of programs and involve the design of a contract (the GNU General Public License, or GPL) which has been arguably as crucial to the success of the movement… ]]> Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:37:00 -0700 http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/delanda/pages/opensource.htm http://people.alfred.edu/~mh7/Site/time.html (A Glitch Lecture by ∆¥∆) ]]> Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:33:00 -0700 http://people.alfred.edu/~mh7/Site/time.html http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6703852.html?industryid=47109 The future of reading is very much in doubt. In this century, reading could soar to new heights or crash and burn. Some educators and librarians fear that sustained reading for learning, for work, and for pleasure may be slowly dying out as a widespread social practice. Only at living history farms will we see people reading. For decades the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has been studying the reading habits of adult Americans, issuing a series of reports with rousingly alliterative titles such as “Reading at Risk” (July 2004) and “Reading on the Rise” (January 2009). Sometime in… ]]> Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:30:00 -0700 http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6703852.html?industryid=47109