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Consider the Octopus: September 2009
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Disaggregated thoughts about computing, culture and society. Saturday, 5 September 2009. The below is not the whole story. And it's too overbearing to define a single starting point for the analysis of cultural products in general. Anyway, there is another approach that is also valuable IMO. In their social world via their work. So, if an artistic product can express its creator's worldview, this is useful for us if we think a couple of things:. 1) The artist is involved in a social system. If we believe...
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Consider the Octopus: April 2010
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Disaggregated thoughts about computing, culture and society. Friday, 16 April 2010. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The Cedar Lounge Revolution. Who is that Trump reminds me of? Dublin Anarchist Black Cross takes part in Annual Anti Internment March, dropped banner in Dublin. Bin Charges: From Private Circus to Public Service. Suburban Superheroes # 20 [How’ryaDarth]. Notes from the Swedish Workers' Movement. Swedish harbour workers declare boycott of Israeli goods.
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Consider the Octopus: Further thoughts on the balance of power
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Disaggregated thoughts about computing, culture and society. Friday, 18 March 2011. Further thoughts on the balance of power. The concepts need further definition, Economic and Consciousness particularly. Other goods are also crucial, of course. The Spanish situation indicated that economic power is the cornerstone of all other power. With the gold reserves of the Madrid bank, the Spanish revolutionaries could have purchased arms rather than relying on the USSR, which had a hostile agenda. Swedish harbou...
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Consider the Octopus: August 2009
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Disaggregated thoughts about computing, culture and society. Tuesday, 25 August 2009. The Agony of the Times. This whole debate on the death of the newspaper is very interesting, and well worth some proper investigation. Clay Shirky. Is, so far, the best critic of the vain attempts of the newspapers to sustain themselves, and the below quote is quite a nice indication of how badly the business model has been broken, and how increasingly archaic the newspaper form will become. Wednesday, 19 August 2009.
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Consider the Octopus: Escapism or Immortality?
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Disaggregated thoughts about computing, culture and society. Friday, 22 June 2012. It’s interesting to note the differences here with previous vampire fiction, such as that by Anne Rice. Her stories do not involve the vampires in world-shaping conflicts, except in the dire Queen of the Damned. Instead, she focuses on the sociopathic hedonism and anomie that result from their detachment from human society. Her vampires are tragic figures, who tend to regret their isolation. The Cedar Lounge Revolution.
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Consider the Octopus: You don't matter and other adventures in socialism
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Disaggregated thoughts about computing, culture and society. Wednesday, 11 July 2012. You don't matter and other adventures in socialism. Sometimes when a lefty argument has been going for too long without any real progress or indeed any sort of relevance, I get a bit tetchy, leading to an outburst of 'We don't matter, this doesn't matter! What will become of the micro-sect? So, if there was a dissolution into a larger party, what would happen to the existing parties and formations? So the idea here is o...
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Patrik Lundström | Syndikalism idag
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Posts by Patrik Lundström:. Finns det seriösa bemanningsföretag? Bemanningsbloggen och andra signalbloggar. När polisen tar parti i en arbetsmarknadskonflikt. När liberalerna tar till knogjärnen. Desinformation på Svenska dagbladets ledarplats. Berns salonger förespråkar polisstat. Older Posts ». Finns det seriösa bemanningsföretag? Bemanningsbloggen och andra signalbloggar. När polisen tar parti i en arbetsmarknadskonflikt. När liberalerna tar till knogjärnen. Berns salonger förespråkar polisstat.
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Det kriminella kapitalet | Syndikalism idag
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Laquo; Kriminalitet på entreprenad. 06 juli 2010 av A Runbark. Efter ny kommunallag (SFS 1991:900) med upphandling av kommunal verksamhet och legalisering av bemanningsföretag (SFS 1991:746) samt en svensk modell som endast har stöd av LO-eliten, framstår de senaste 20 åren på svensk arbetsmarknad som ett kompakt mörker. Politikerna har lämnat fältet fritt för den organiserade brottsligheten, dvs det kriminella kapitalet. Skatteverket konstaterar frankt att ”En stor del av den ekonomiska brottsligh...
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Consider the Octopus: June 2012
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Disaggregated thoughts about computing, culture and society. Friday, 22 June 2012. It’s interesting to note the differences here with previous vampire fiction, such as that by Anne Rice. Her stories do not involve the vampires in world-shaping conflicts, except in the dire Queen of the Damned. Instead, she focuses on the sociopathic hedonism and anomie that result from their detachment from human society. Her vampires are tragic figures, who tend to regret their isolation. Friday, 15 June 2012. This basi...
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Red Anti-State: March 2012
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Saturday, March 24, 2012. The Household Charges Rally. I've only lived in Ireland for seven years, but I've been to more than my fair share of protests, rallies, marches, public meetings and the like. Ever since the financial crisis of the bankers was transmogrified into an austerity crisis for the working class I've wondered when and if people would start doing something in opposition. Well, apparently that time is now. The rally certainly gave a good idea of the scorching temperature of rage that peopl...