MachineMachine /stream - tagged with kim-jong-il http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron text@machinemachine.net I Was Kim Jong Il's Cook http://www.theatlantic.com/past/issues/2004/01/fujimoto.htm/the-atlantic-januaryfebruary-2004-i-was-kim-jong-ils-cook-fujimoto True tales from Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il's one-time chef http://t.co/U0UVeok1 ]]> Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:35:58 -0700 http://www.theatlantic.com/past/issues/2004/01/fujimoto.htm/the-atlantic-januaryfebruary-2004-i-was-kim-jong-ils-cook-fujimoto Simulating Kim Jong Il http://machinemachine.net/text/things/simulating-kim-jong-il
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Will the real Kim Jong Il please stand up?

The idea of Kim Jong Il has become commodity. There is a reality inside North Korea, and there is another outside. Which is real and which is simulation?

For the past half decade an excess of images, simulations and caricatures of the North Korean leader have bombarded us. The media of excess has repeated the mantra of simulation in bold headlines, in news-print and digital text : “Is… ]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:28:00 -0700 http://machinemachine.net/text/things/simulating-kim-jong-il