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what is theatre?
I liked Hofesh Shechter’s Grand Finale. I liked, but not so much, Ulster American, by playwright David Ireland, presented by the Traverse Theatre Company, est. 1963. A part of the few thoughts I have now the energy to jot down concerns the institutional setting, including the timer setting of
“The problem is not to create a better story, but to make it sufficiently performative to make it build its own reality.” – Wim Nusselder
the title, citing Wim Nusselder, is from comments on the video at Kate Raworth’s website.
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
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
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