“I hate new year’s day,” Antonio Gramsci wrote in 1916. “Every morning, when I wake again under the pall of the sky, I feel that for me it is New Year’s day. That’s why I hate these New Year’s that fall like fixed maturities, which turn life and human spirit into a commercial concern with […]
Can people change? Can we heal our traumas, internally and interpersonally? Can we adopt better habits, attitudes, and ways of self-management? Can I systematically solve the puzzles in my most deeply ingrained behaviors – the character flaws that have held me back for over a decade? How can learning about computer programming be an avenue towards […]
SHORT. There is a tortured relationship between the performance artist and the audience. It is an unstable relationship of dependency. The artist requires the applause of the audience to sustain her spirit and livelihood. Her very self-worth is put at risk during each performance, and she makes herself extremely vulnerable….For the audience, the entertainer is […]
“Linux is a beautiful operating system,” said P, a kindly tech trainer with gray hair from the UK, “because it is held together by our trust in each other.” We sat together in a workshop on email encryption – Thunderbird, to Enigmail, via Seahorse. The registration of public and private keys. Sharing keys in our […]
‘[We] are all chimeras, theorised and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism: in short, we are cyborgs. This cyborg is our ontology: it gives us our politics. This is an argument for pleasure in the confusion of boundaries and for responsibility in their construction’ Donna Haraway, ‘A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology and Socialist-Feminism in the […]