Hi Julian,
I've enjoyed thinking about this post and reading about newstweek
especially. There are some challenging possible directions! But right now,
just a few questions:
I wonder what, if anything, the Critical Engineer borrows from the pirate
persona?
How essential is the educational
Hi Davin,
Thinking on this point of being products of the Google and their
famously banal motto, Don't be evil, I wonder if some of what we are
experiencing a flattening out of ethics. Don't be evil sounds like
a fine corporate motto, but I think it really speaks to an absence of
what it is
I was just reading about LulzSec's News International exploits and wondering
which archetype they channel. That are not pirates. Their graphic image is
suggestive of a dandy - which reminds me of Lovink's data dandy. But there
is more to their identity than that. They also echo the jester
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:09:33AM +0100, Simon Biggs wrote:
The jester worked up close and dirty with authority, right by the
monarch's side, but often in conflict with them.
Mongrel http://www.mongrel.org.uk/ used the word 'motley' to describe
their social/technical cultural practice and
The Critical Engineer seems to be doing reverse engineering, a form of
technical deconstruction. It's what most interesting artists who work with
technology tend to do in their work, opening the black box to analysis. In
that sense the term critical engineer seems to be a synonym for media artist
..on Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 04:28:53PM +0100, Simon Biggs wrote:
The Critical Engineer seems to be doing reverse engineering, a form of
technical deconstruction. It's what most interesting artists who work with
technology tend to do in their work, opening the black box to analysis. In
that sense
