having said the network can do maths…
I should ask: What does the network think?
Simon Taylor
Jaron Lanier & criticality, ii – more of the same
We have economic fear combined with everybody joined together on these instant twitchy social networks which are designed to create mass action.
– Jaron Lanier quoted here
A pogrom is carried out by a “crowd,” the true horrific embodiment of the purported “wisdom of the crowd.” You could say it made
Jaron Lanier & criticality
March 11 2007 I wrote a post critical of Jaron Lanier, here. It is then with some interest I note what some are calling his apostasy, there.
Year of the Snake
“We are so absorbed by the lightness and vitality of Goya’s line that the beauty of the spectacle makes us forget to condemn the war it represents.”
– Jean Genet, quoted in “The Dualist- Painting, Francis Bacon, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany,” David Cohen, Art in America, Jan., 1997.
“I
Aryan Kaganof’s “Hymn”
in the beginning… … ….. …….. …………………..