The journal Theory Culture & Society has published its first issue of the New Encyclopedia of Global Knowledge, and in it is an entry on networks written by me. I was asked to cut out what I thought was a nice example of how networking as a moral engagement is not something inately modern, but […]
Joost writes in Risk and Technological Culture that “modern technoscience needs risks to legitimize its claim to scarce resources to speed up its capacity for interventions and to respond more quickly to emergent risks.” But the “politics of urgency…inhibits reflection and reconsideration, and as a result ultimately contributes to the proliferation of uncertainties, latent […]
On TV a couple of weeks ago, I saw a muscular, crew-cut blonde, middle-aged guy looking right into the camera and angrily saying: “Where’s my homeland security? Who’s protecting me from the Third World?”
It’s always someone else who’s the barbarian, I thought. And the idea of immigrant hordes is hardly new.
A year ago, […]
Congratulations to spaceandculture favourites [murmur] for becoming a finalist in the Canadian New Media Awards‘ Excellence in Culture, Lifestyle, Arts category.
(From May 26 to June 25 look for an Airstream trailer on the streets of Toronto - from it “five urban activists tucked in amid a pile of audio equipment will be recording personal […]
Exurban Noir WorkshopSeptember 17&18, Ubicomp 2006Orange County, California
“The Exurban workshop seeks to include a wide range of risk-taking urban practitioners that will undertake a two-day active exploration of exurban noir. Whether we like it or not, as urban designers and researchers we are contributing in unknown but significant ways in choosing our future technological urban […]