Energy is a Network
What is generally referred to as ‘energy’ today cannot merely be the material categories of wood, oil, plutonium, etcetera, but a network comprising also of people, cars, power plants – all objects of...
View ArticleDear Levi’s, I love your pants but…
Sarah Witt is a close friend of mine. She recently received an email from someone speaking on behalf of Levi’s, asking her to be interviewed and profiled on a website called Shape What’s to Come,...
View ArticleWhy I hate the New York Times
Its not often that I hate anything. ‘Hate’ is a strong word with very little room for understanding and good critique, but we do reserve it for some things in life and I have for a long time reserved...
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Conflicts & Crises Post-Media
This is a large topic I would like to write more on later, but will start here. I just spent a week interviewing locals in Minami Sanriku – one of the many towns on the east coast of Japan severely...
View ArticleCaught with its ideological pants down
I don’t read the New York Times seeking any valuable content, but I will look at it once in a while just to see what the paper is up to. How it is functioning in its totality as pure media. The last...
View ArticleTurn on, tune in, drop out
Last week Yoko Ono posted on YouTube a documentary she made with John Lennon in 1969 called Peace Bed. Digging deeper into the film’s personalities, I came across a phrase that defined the attitude of...
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INTERVIEW: Noam Chomsky on Government, Silicon Valley and the Internet
Noam Chomsky, Professor Emeritus Department of Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Interviewed in person at his office in the MIT Stata Center on August 15, 2012 by Critical.Org’s...
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INTERVIEW: Susan Crawford on Silicon Valley, Washington and the Internet
Photo: Yae Jin Shin Susan Crawford, Director Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University Interviewed in person at her office at the Kennedy School of Government on August 20, 2012 by...
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INTERVIEW: Joi it on Washington, Silicon Valley and Law Versus Code
Photo: Yae Jin Shin Joi Ito, Director Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Interviewed in person at his office at the MIT Media Lab on August 14, 2012 by Critical.Org’s Jegan Vincent de...
View ArticleFreedom flu spreads to new Chinese province
Two people in the central Chinese province of Henan have been infected by a new strain of freedom influenza bringing the nationwide total to 51, state media have reported. The latest cases of...
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