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Image: Material Labour: Richard Barbrook at Alex Veness' studio, Material Labour: Richard Barbrook at Alex Veness' studio, London, England, 2006 and the Unisphere by Alex Veness for Imaginary Futures, subject: N. America | Technology
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Submitted by mute on Friday, 18 April, 2008 - 16:45
Iain A. Boal The computer, it has been argued, inspired a wave of post-war 'imaginary futures', from ecstatic fantasies of time and space travel to fears of mankind's extinction. Yet, prior technological developments were similarly animated by fantasies and anxieties about the transformation of human capacities. Here Iain Boal brings three critical histories of modernity's futuramas firmly back down to earth subject:
Science | New Media | Space Travel | Technology | Weapons Technology
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Submitted by unterschreber on Tuesday, 25 March, 2008 - 03:20
Sophia Grene (FT Fund Management) Courtesy of the Financial Times, the latest news on the financial sector's most self-allegorizing activity: death hedging. Or more prosaically, the develpment of 'longevity derivatives' and associated indices, through which fund managers can hedge against the risk that people (not to speak of broker-dealers) might not die soon enough. In this update, Deutsche Börse has introduced live (so to speak) data feeds from undertakers to find out the age of the bodies they bury. subject: Computing | Finance & Trade | Hedge Fund | Information | Markets | Money | Pathopraxis | Strategy | Streaming | Surveillance | Technology
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Submitted by unterschreber on Monday, 24 March, 2008 - 02:53
Private Eye (In the Back section) From Private Eye, a brief update on the lie detector system soon to be used across the UK on suspected 'benefit thieves'*, i.e. all claimants. The system comes from Mossad, but what's really alarming is that it is administered by scorched-earth PFI war machine Capita. subject: Biopolitics | Class | Identity | Information | Policy | Precarity | Psychology | State | Surveillance | Technology | War | Other
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Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 11 March, 2008 - 16:48
Richard Wright The BBC's Live Sites 2012 program is set to roll out 60 big screens in urban centres around the UK by 2012. Considering the vague agenda currently guiding their use, Richard Wright asks whether these big screens will ever open themselves to creative use or simply remain giant TVs controlled by giants subject: Arts funding | Broadcast Media | Cultural Industries | Festivals | New Media Art | Regeneration | Socially Engaged | Technology | Television | Urbanism
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Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 9 May, 2007 - 09:16
James Woudhuysen The emerging capitalist War On Global Warming concentrates on adapting technology and behaviour – particularly other nation-states’ – to mitigate environmental damage. Transformative technological and social innovation is better than meddling micro-action, argues James Woudhuysen
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Science | Climate Change | Economics | Energy Resources | Environment | Oil | Policy | Technology
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Submitted by mute on Monday, 29 January, 2007 - 16:41
Angela Mitropoulos Do blogs and social network-based sites offer the prospect of a democratic sociability without borders or wars? Should unpaid producers of content struggle for fair compensation? Or does the very sense of ownership, justice and right founded on labour need to be shaken up? Angela Mitropoulos takes a critical look at the dissident pragmatism of the startup and the ‘alternative’ economies of the digital commons subject: Blogging | Class | Commons | Globalisation | Intellectual Property | Internet | Marxist | Post-Autonomist | Technology | War
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