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end of dreaming

I don’t want to be the one who lives here     but the alien I want to visit your beautiful country I don’t want to speak this tongue     but the alien I want to hear your beautiful language I don’t want to share the words used     to be
Simon Taylor 16 Mar 2019

Tamsin Shaw on “The New Military-Industrial Complex of Big Data Psy-Ops”

Reading Shaw’s article in the New York Review of Books I reach a point where the question seems to be begged. This is not the same as raising questions. Shaw raises questions around the ethics of dual-use research: research that has a potential military application as well as an
Simon Taylor 10 Mar 2019

Shoshana Zuboff defines:

Sur-veil-lance Cap-i-tal-ism, n. 1. A new economic order that claims human experience as free raw material for hidden commercial practices of extraction, prediction, and sales; 2. A parasitic economic logic in which the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new global architecture of behavioral modification; 3. A
Simon Taylor 09 Mar 2019

…highly unlikely…

Simon Taylor 24 Feb 2019

Valeria Luiselli writes in La Calle, Alex Webb’s book of photos of Mexico

Walking  down the rumbling hot concrete of that fucked-up and noisy and utterly  dirty triangular block in Tacubaya, it was sometimes comforting to think  that the silent witch doctors’ cave  was oblivious to the future respectful whispers inside the  seventeenth-century shrine, and that the shrine knew nothing of the  intrigues
Simon Taylor 24 Feb 2019

field recordings 2018:02:15 09:59:32 – 2018:06:02 18:59:02 including Julian Rosenfeldt’s brilliant Manifesto & Inti restaurant’s equally brilliant food (Inti, now closed, ought to have been an icon and institution of the temporary city)

Simon Taylor 24 Feb 2019

field recordings 2017:11:14 11:02:48 – 2018:02:10 12:45:48

Simon Taylor 18 Feb 2019

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