From BoingBoing.net
Original Post by David Pescovitz, June 23, 2008 11:03 AM
George Lakoff is well known as a cognitive linguist who looks at how language affects culture, specifically how much the metaphors we use impact the way we think. During the last presidential election, he grabbed a lot of attention with his [...]
Sunday, September 30, 2007
this is priceless! tit for tat? equal treatment under the Law? How will Americans like it now when Iran or other countries treats us like we treat them? When Americans are held with suspended Human Rights?! Look out! don’t notice these double -standards! Really one good Bateson binding Bonds! Is this [...]
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Also tagged Ahmadinejad, awareness expansion, CIA, CIA Not!, Double Bind Theory, Government Lies, media ecology, Media Lies, National Security State, NSS, politics, Spook Country, tetrad, war is terrorism
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Friday, September 28, 2007
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Joseph Nechvatal
Mid-September 2007, Marrakech
http://www.nechvatal.net
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http://transition.turbulence.org/blog/2007/09/28/review-of-digital-contagions/trackback/
Though no J. G. Ballard or William S. Burroughs, Jussi Parikka nevertheless sucks us into a fantastic black tour-de-force narrative of virulence and the cultural history of computer viruses (*), followed by innumerable inquisitive innuendoes
We may wish to recall here that for Deleuze and Guattari, media ecologies are machinic operations (the term [...]
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Also tagged cyberspace, Ecodelics, future, Gamer Theory, Jussi Parikka, McKenzie Wark, McLuhan, Media Lies, National Security State, Nechvatal, open source religion, politics, Psyche de Luxe, Spam, Spook Country, wired
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Monday, September 24, 2007
from Salon.com
Turning Ahmadinejad into public enemy No. 1
Demonizing the Iranian president and making his visit to New York seem controversial are all part of the neoconservative push for yet another war.
By Juan Cole
Sep. 24, 2007 | Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to New York to address the United Nations General Assembly has become [...]
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Also tagged Ahmadinejad, Chalmers Johnson, Double Bind Theory, Economics, future, Gamer Theory, Government Lies, Juan Cole, marketing, media ecology, Media Lies, National Security State, neocons, NSS, politics, Spook Country, treason, Why They Hate US
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