Incunabula: Ong's Hat

You have been searching for us without knowing it, following oblique references in crudely xeroxed marginal "samsidat" publications, crackpot mystical pamphlets, mail order courses ... a paper trail and a coded series of rumors spread at street level ... and the propagation of certain acts of insurrection against the Planetary Work Machine and the Consensus Reality ... or perhaps through various obscure mimeographed technical papers on the edges of "chaos science" ... through pirate computer networks ... or even through pure synchronicity and the pursuit of dreams. In any case we know something about you, your interests, deeds and desires, works and days ... and we know your address. Otherwise...you would not be reading this...

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Greylodge Occult Review (GLOR) Archives

Back online, the archives of the legendary Greylodge Occult Review

The Alterati Archives

The gigantic podcast archives of Alterati. The Inside Scoop on the Outside Culture.

Patrick Feaster: Pictures of Sound: One Thousand Years of Educed Audio, 980-1980 + CD (2012)

Using modern technology, Patrick Feaster is on a mission to resurrect long-vanished voices and sounds—many of which were never intended to be revived. Over the past thousand years, countless images have been created to depict sound in forms that theoretically could be “played” just as though they were modern sound recordings. Now, for the first [...]

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François Laruelle: Principles of Non-Philosophy (1996/2013)

Principles of Non-Philosophy is a treatise on the method, axioms and objectives of non-philosophy and represents François Laruelle’s mature philosophy. As well as presenting the method and principles of non-philosophy, it includes a history of the development of non-philosophy, a novel conception of science, a discussion of non-philosophical causality and new theories of the subject [...]

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Sensate: A Journal for Experiments in Critical Media Practice (2012-)

Sensate is a peer-reviewed, issueless, open-access, media-based journal for the creation, presentation, and critique of innovative projects in the arts, humanities, and sciences. Its mission is to provide a scholarly and artistic forum for experiments in critical media practices that expand academic discourse by taking us beyond the margins of the printed page. Fundamental to [...]

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Video: ‘Cheetah Cub’ Robot Runs Like a Housecat

Researchers in Switzerland have created a robot that moves like a housecat and can run faster than all other robots its size. http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/06/17/video-cheetah-cub-robot-runs-like-a-housecat

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Why the ‘War on Drugs’ has been made redundant | The Raw Story

The term “designer drug” became popular with the acid house and ecstasy boom in the 1990s, but it was never really accurate. The main ingredient in ecstasy pills – MDMA – was first synthesised in 1912 and began its life as a recreational drug in 70s California, years before it became notorious on the rave [...]

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Review: Minecraft and the Secret to a Video-Game Phenomenon | MIT Technology Review

All video-game makers are minor gods. They are, after all, in the business of world creation. The game creator sets down the mountains and arranges the valleys in his or her world. The creator decides upon the sky’s hue, the water’s viscosity, the pitch of birdsong, and the force of gravity’s pull. The creator types [...]

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Cat Caught Smuggling Cell Phones Into Russian Prison

The Russian prison service said Monday it had caught a cat being used as a courier to smuggle banned cell phones and chargers into a prison camp in the country’s remote far north. The prison service in the Komi region said on its website that the cat was detained Friday evening as it climbed the [...]

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For Snowden, a Life of Ambition, Despite the Drifting – NYTimes.com

In 2006, when Edward J. Snowden joined the thousands of computer virtuosos going to work for America’s spy agencies, there were no recent examples of insiders going public as dissidents. But as his doubts about his work for the Central Intelligence Agency and then for the National Security Agency grew, the Obama administration’s campaign against [...]

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Asylum 1972 (R.D. Laing)

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Asylum is a 1972 documentary film about a therapeutic community for the mentally ill in London. It features the co-founders of the community, Leon Redler and R. D. Laing. The New School, a university in New York City, offers distinguished degree, certificate, and continuing education programs in art and design, liberal arts, management and [...]

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George Lucas & Steven Spielberg: Studios Will Implode; VOD Is the Future

Looking into their crystal ball, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg predicted the imminent arrival of a radically different entertainment landscape, including pricey movie tickets, a vast migration of content to video-on-demand and even programmable dreams. Speaking on a panel at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, Spielberg and Lucas took a grim view of the [...]

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Protests hit Brazil’s biggest cities, adding to unrest

Small but violent protests in several Brazilian cities this week have added to a sense of growing unrest in Brazil at a time when inflation, crime and President Dilma Rousseff’s popularity are all taking a turn for the worse. (link via pomoetry) http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/14/us-brazil-protests-idUSBRE95D0J420130614

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Theo Röhle: Der Google-Komplex: Über Macht im Zeitalter des Internets (2010) [German]

Meistgenutzte Suchmaschine, weltgrößter Datensammler, teuerstes Medienunternehmen – es liegt nahe, »Google« als Supermacht zu bezeichnen. Und doch greift diese Beschreibung zu kurz. Unter Bezug auf Michel Foucault sowie die Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie entwickelt Theo Röhle ein präzises, relationales Verständnis von Macht, das den Blick auf die vielfältigen Interaktionen der beteiligten Akteure öffnet und ein komplexes System von [...]

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Bitcoin Millionaires Become Investing Angels

Early investors in Bitcoin got rich. Now they are the cryptocurrency’s most powerful gatekeepers. Every time you spend bitcoins to buy a drink at Evr, a swanky bar in midtown Manhattan that accepts the digital currency, you make its co-owner, Charlie Shrem, a little bit richer. And that’s not only because a chamomile sour costs [...]

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NSA surveillance played little role in foiling terror plots, experts say

Lawyers and intelligence experts with direct knowledge of two intercepted terrorist plots that the Obama administration says confirm the value of the NSA’s vast data-mining activities have questioned whether the surveillance sweeps played a significant role, if any, in foiling the attacks. http://m.guardiannews.com/world/2013/jun/12/nsa-surveillance-data-terror-attack

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Richard Ellmann: James Joyce (1959/1982)

“Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce’s life to include newly discovered primary material, including details of a failed love affair, a limerick about Samuel Beckett, a dream notebook, previously unknown letters, and much more.” “The greatest literary biography of the century.” — Anthony Burgess, The Observer First published in 1959 [...]

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Isabelle Stengers: Thinking With Whitehead: A Free and Wild Creation of Concepts (2002/2011)

Alfred North Whitehead has never gone out of print, but for a time he was decidedly out of fashion in the English-speaking world. In a splendid work that serves as both introduction and erudite commentary, Isabelle Stengers—one of today’s leading philosophers of science—goes straight to the beating heart of Whitehead’s thought. The product of thirty [...]

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Samir Amin: Eurocentrism: Modernity, Religion and Democracy: A Critique of Eurocentrism and Culturalism (1988-) [FR, EN, ES]

Since its first publication more than twenty years ago, Eurocentrism has become a classic of radical thought. Written by one of the world’s foremost political economists, this original and provocative essay takes on one of the great “ideological deformations” of our time: Eurocentrism. Rejecting the dominant Eurocentric view of world history, which narrowly and incorrectly [...]

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Autographs Are Far Less of a Mess

The wormy apple doesn’t fall far from the rotting tree. In saying that, I don’t mean to cast aspersions on the Cronenberg family bloodline but only to point out that in his first feature, “Antiviral,” the 33-year-old Brandon Cronenberg exhibits the same obsession with mutilation and infection as his father, David, did in movies like [...]

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