Simon Taylor

“where the idea of excommunication may be felt most immediately is in tapping into the simmering desire, for those who have such a choice, to disconnect from the frenetic energies of hypermediation, and to find opportunities of contemplation and reimagination in the spaces of communicative exclusion.” Excommunication “provides a model

but not, apparently, against the corporatisation of the interweb: https://www.facebook.com/McSkoolNZ

The first alcohol monopoly ever started in the mid 1800s in Sweden. It worked so well that the model was spread all over the country. In 1955, the local companies were merged to form a single, national Systembolaget company, a concept which still works. from here … the same kind of

Joanna said ‘You mean, all this is how things are supposed to be?’ Alix said ‘I mean, can’t it be a game?’ Johnny said ‘Indeed. Isn’t apocalypse better as a game?’ Peter said ‘I like games.’ Phoebe said ‘Not higgledy piggledy.’ – Nicholas Mosley, Metamorphosis, pp. 122-3 is here

“I don’t know when it began to be suspected by people who watched the news on television in order to find out what was happening in the world outside, that most of what was being shown was not in the context of true versus false, or right versus wrong,