Catalysts to say what has never been said, to see what has never been seen. To draw, paint, sing, sculpt, dance and act what has never before been done. To push the envelope of creativity and language. And whats really important is, I call it, the felt presence of direct experience. Which is a fancy term which just simply means we have to stop consuming our culture. We have to create culture. Don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time, where you are now, is the most immediate sector of your universe. And if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, you are disempowered. You are giving it all away to icons. Icons which are maintained by an electronic media, so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion. And what is real is you and your friends, your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, and your fears. And we are told no. We're unimportant, we're peripheral, get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that, and then you're a player. You don't even want to play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world. Where is that at?"
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Cultures of Music Piracy: An Ethnographic Comparison of the US and Japan - 0 views
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Ian Condry, MIT 2004
The Technium: Ethnic Technology - 0 views
BBC NEWS | Technology | Pirate Bay file-sharing defended - 0 views
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"It has a life without us."
al-saggaf_begg_2004_jices.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views
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There is a major transformation taking place in the Arab and Muslim worlds. People in these nations are
poised on the edge of a significant new social landscape. Called the Internet, this new frontier not only
includes the creation of new forms of private communication, like electronic mail and chat, but also webbased
forums, which for the first time enables public discussion between males and females in conservative
societies. This paper has been written as a result of an ethnographic study conducted in Saudi Arabia
during the period 2001-2002. The purpose of the study was to understand how online communities in
Saudi Arabia are affecting people. The results of the study indicate that while participants to a large
extent used online communities in accordance with their cultural values, norms and traditions, the communication
medium and the features associated with it, such as the anonymity and lack of social cues,
have affected them considerably. For example, many participants became more flexible in their thinking,
more aware of the diverse nature of people within their society, less inhibited about the opposite gender,
and more self-confident. On the other hand, participants neglected their family commitments, became less
shy and some became confused about some aspects of their culture and religion. These findings and their
implications for the Arab and Muslim worlds will be highlighted in this paper.
Haraway_CyborgManifesto.html - 0 views
YouTube - Reclaim Your Mind - 0 views
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just the audio of McKenna - no music
Web ushers in age of ambient intimacy - International Herald Tribune - 0 views
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When students woke up that September morning and saw News Feed, the first reaction, generally, was one of panic.
