August 30

 

"Learning the Alphabet"

 

"Da wiki is the medium is the message"

 

"The algorithm/content gradient"

 

 

September 6

 

http://www.nadir.org/nadir/archiv/netzkritik/societyofcontrol.html

 

The context: an historical orientation to the control society, leading to a proliferation of information:

 

http://foia.fbi.gov/filelink.html?file=/king/mkl1a.pdf

 

With more attention attractors and lowered awareness:

 

http://digitalproposal.pbwiki.com/

 

And a desire to control: ( LSD, Aliens discussion)

 

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Security_State

 

http://www.thememoryhole.org/policestate/tia/tia-original.htm

 

Mobius's Blog

Click on the above links and blog in response to it. If you can, improve the link. Make it bettah!

 

 

 

September 13

 

diverse and sundry blogs

 

TIA Reprise: Psychological Operations in Guerilla Warfare

 

The edge of the network as the space of necessary freedom - Lacuna Mutata

 

http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=95556&WT.svl=column1_1

The Social Engineering FAQ - A Fake FAQ?

 

RfidFrenzy - Toward An Internet of Things?

 

skype phone

 

Training in commons formation: Creative Commons The Creative Commons

 

September 20

 

(1)Experimental Paranoia: I Ching as Semiotic Device for Re-Enacting the Society of Control?

 

*inhabiting the viewpoint of total control: everything is a sign!

*The control/freedom gradient - discovering the space of semiosis

*Throw the Stalks Again: "programmable" means "meta-programmable"

 

(2) RFID discourses- tribe, sex offenders, immigrants. Could rfid tagging actually help sex offenders offend? Increased proliferation of information makes identity theft more rather than less likely. Likely: a mutation. hint: transhuman imperative 

 

(3) Wiki in the society of control. Preemptive protection. Training in Commons Formation - attempt to control leads to the development of a proliferating discourse, whose only referent can be a commons - a gathering requiring only minimal understanding. The Minimal Conditions of understanding. Commons versus property 

[http://creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons Choose a license for your work. You must share your compositions in some form with your classmates!

 

(4) Resonance Pattern: Cyberspace, frontier of sovereignty.

history of free press (Ideological origins of the american revolution)

history of pirate radio.

The analogy with geography and its limits. finite versus infinite dimensionson?

The Turner Frontier Hypothesis

 

 

September 27

(1) Taking the Measure of Latour

 

(2)Fnords are the medium R the Message Gubble. "I was one of the original chinese immigrant laborers who built this railway>" I Manchurian Candidate

 

(3) Security Homeland Fnord: Axiom 1: Create a discourse!

Department of Homeland Security, Reading National Strategery to Secure Cyberspace? Has anybody else ever read this document?

 

The Emerging Discourses of Biometrics

The Challenge of Biometrics

trolling for hooks: Privacy-protective solutions that meet operational needs, 

enhance public confidence in biometrics technology and 

safeguard personal information (NS, HS, E, P)

 

 

http://www.itl.nist.gov/div893/biometrics/ Biometrics Resource Center

 

Burroughs, Electronic Revolution

 

October 4

From Class to Method: What's this class about? Growing an answer. Evolutionary techniques for a highly distributed ecology; State as recent Overcoding of Generalized Cosmological Delirums; The Pharmacratic Inquisition

 

Clastres, Pierre. Society Against the State

 

 

Making Better Operatives for the

Security Commons

 

October 11

Learn how to edit wikipedia; Read "Programming and Metaprogramming the Human Biocomputer."

 

Wikipedia Biometric Fest - Growing Meta-Programing

 

October 18

 

The Quasi-Fictional Society of Control: Ubik

 

October 25

A Scanner Darkly - Screening

 

November 1

 

The Transhuman Turn: beyond baroque Self entrapment, again

Self Overcoming and Transhumanism - Huxley

 

The Panopticon Singularity - Charles Stross

 

The Control Inside - From Burroughs to Kurzweil

 

Inhabiting an informatic Cosmos: Cosmic Trigger

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November 8

 

Cosmic Trigger

 

November 15

William Gibson, Spook Country

Bruce Schneier, beyond fear

 

November 22

 

Timothy Leary, The Intelligence Agent Sign up with American Buddha for free online access

No class

 

November 29

 

TBA

 

December 5

 

Visit Pollock "library" to make film. Have Script!

 

December 12

 

final commons formation

 

 

 

 

 

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