Thanks, Sean and all for these salient replies.
I have often been active here, but had been offline more than I like related to
living in Arabia; some things you'd imagine, others not. More than anything
else, I have been creating a VR research center and doing a snowstorm of
Actually, in addition to the canon, I have been in love with the Zero Books
"Horror of Philosophy" series, especially Thacker's trilogy.
On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 00:03:36 -0700, Garnet Hertz wrote:
Emaline: based on your response, it looks like you have the same careerism as
Seb. No?
So interesting.
I also find this so interesting because in the light of fakeness, Tactical
Media is harder, in the sense of the intervention/provocation to response that
was done with RTMark/YesMen back in the time I was active. I think that
the new Washington Post, after the Times
Even though it might seem trite, I think that a return to the rhetoric of
Barlow's Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace is not the worst idea. In
some ways, it could be updated to say that you had your chance; all it has done
has subjugated the internet with capitalism and
I'm there, and for me, it is as much my location (Arabia) and how able I am to
access global networks from here - it isn't bad, but we do have some
firewalling to political, adult, etc. For me, I feel that if I were in the
Western World, I would be in a position to have a different
"if you have not spent significant time here, you would not realize..."
Sure, I will.
Consider that the amount of money being invested here in future policy,
infrastructure, education (nearly 3 billion in higher ed for a country of 12
million) is staggering. The local attire is worn
Responding to Molly -
I have been really pressed for time these days, but have enjoyed this
conversation.
I hope I can give you the view from Arabia.
And I am returning to the USA soon.
Such and interesting perspective time from here.
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On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 10:26:40 -0400, v...@voyd.com wrote:
Steve, thanks for this, and yeah, the Tactical Media Electric Kool-Aid Acid
Test was a great trip. What a ride, and it might not be done. However.
This might seem like the biggest non-committal answer possible, but I see
Yes, there were people like the guy in the fur hat who apparently is the son of
a judge, but I'm following up on that claim.
Idiocracy isn't so funny any more . Hasn't been for a long time.
Shifting back to the US next week.. I'll be on more.
On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 20:34:30 +0100,
I remember being at Geert's and his son was playing "China all the time Trump
Remix"
For a lighthearted moment in the tense conversation, I'd like to revisit it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heofJGld5uw
:)
On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 04:23:22 -0500, tbyfi...@panix.com wrote:
Yes
Hi, everyone -
Watching this curiously as I re-acclimate to being back in the United States
after 5 years based in the UAE, but engaged in thinking across the Caucusus,
Turkey, Armenia/Azerbaijan, the I-place, and the Central Asian -Stans, and a
tiny bit of China.
Being that I
Yes, thanks.
You know, when I was involved in a lecture on the notion of apocalypse and the
Contemporary, listening to Rohit Goel of BICAR (who was not blithe about the
subject at all) in Dubai in 2018, I was almost enraged by the oblique way in
which the subject was being
A quick note for my having not engaged the conversation fully and going
lateral. My deepest apologies.
I am a bit in the Brian/Ryan camp on this one. To reframe my polemic, Brian
centers it perfectly in saying that the cognitive argument has been had, and it
is now a question of
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