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Capitalism

The No Logo Decade

How the iconic summary of the anti-corporate movement became a handbook for corporate marketing.

Changing The Future of Reading

Understanding the Google Books Settlement.

Apple and America

Apple has no civic responsibility or moral obligations, but the citizens of the United States do.

Flocks of Black Swans

Many programmers and those with ears tuned in to murmurs from the dark side of the finance industry will have heard the recent story involving Goldman Sachs.

Cubicide

Dark clouds of thought were unproven examples Of the principle of doubt transforming the future They assumed the management of progress As psychic discipline for fools and thieves Readily…

Contradictions, Conspiracies, and Cultural Logic

Frederic Jameson, author of Postmodernism or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism gave a lecture at Vic yesterday about Representations of Globalisation. Jameson's project can perhaps be summed…

The Shock of the Now

Are Google and Facebook obliterating the web?

All Your Apps Are Belong To Us

The EFF examines the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement, and concludes that Apple is acting as a jealous and arbitrary feudal lord.

Mapping the Global Shipping Network

Surprisingly, the global shipping network has never been mapped, despite estimates that 90% of the world's trade travels across the oceans.

The Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement

This is the full text of my submission to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Trade regarding the proposed free trade agreement with the United States. Much of this draws from the precedent set…

Hypercommunications and Free Energy

Sometime in the next 30 days, the telecoms firms of the world will have reached a new milestone - three billion subscribers. About ten percent of that number are customers who have multiple accounts,…

Our New Feudal Overlords

Not everyone understands scaling for the masses.

Supremely Corporate

As America flails ever closer to becoming an all-out corporate controlled polity, it's perhaps inevitable that a corporation will try to run for congress.

Concrete Hallucinations

There was only one language that everyone in the Tower of Babel spoke... that of money.

The War of Perception

We are threatened. In lieu of having the time or mental obduracy to eloquently express this stream of thoughts in essay or article form, I'll just jot down a summary of related themes. Hopefully…

Scaling for the Masses

“Only the largest enterprises will be able to justify owning and operating their own servers.”