RafaelFajardo
June 2016
Currently in Oaxaca violent clashes between unionized teachers and armed federal policemen sent by the Mexican government are causing chaos in the city of Nochixtlan. So far six people have been killed, and the authorities are denying that they were killed by their federal policemen.
After I made this post news surfaced of another person killed by federal policemen, bringing the total to 7 killed.
45 Injured
22 Missing
8 Dead
The Black Stack | e-flux
Planetary-scale computation takes different forms at different scales: energy grids and mineral sourcing; chthonic cloud infrastructure; urban software and public service privatization; massive universal addressing systems; interfaces drawn by the augmentation of the hand, of the eye, or dissolved into objects; users both overdetermined by self-quantification and exploded by the arrival of legions of nonhuman users (sensors, cars, robots). Instead of seeing the various species of contemporary computational technologies as so many different genres of machines, spinning out on their own, we should instead see them as forming the body of an accidental megastructure. Perhaps these parts align, layer by layer, into something not unlike a vast (if also incomplete), pervasive (if also irregular) software and hardware Stack. This model is of a Stack that both does and does not exist as such: it is a machine that serves as a schema, as much as it is a schema of machines.1 As such, perhaps the image of a totality that this conception provides would—as theories of totality have before—make the composition of new governmentalities and new sovereignties both more legible and more effective.
good thing i listen to exactly one song with explicit lyrics every day
I’ve been saying this for a while but Startup Bro is the new and terrifying lovechild of the brogrammer and the business major and he is somehow even more self-centered and bigoted than either of them
No, no, guys, look closely.
This house is looking for extremely physically fit young men (No drugs, no makeup, no special diet, exercise 15 hrs a week) who are passive and docile (no protests, no music lyrics with swears) who, most of all, will not be missed if they disappear (very little social media presence, not rich enough to own expensive luxury items, no need to constantly be in contact with their parents over bills/gifts, few identifying markings like tattoos)
This is obviously an organ harvesting operation.
Y’KNOW, THAT *WOULD* EXPLAIN A LOT…
I’m laughing so hard because their slogan is “Educate. Liberate. Disrupt.” and yet they are looking for wealthy neurotypical workaholics who don’t engage in activism, like who are you disrupting then?
Tag urselves i’m drinks alcohol more than three drinks a week
I can’t even tag myself because I’m 13/15 of the items on this list
Then I knew the Africans were right. There is spirit stuff. There is spirit affliction; it is not a matter of metaphor and symbol, or even psychology. And I began to see how anthropologists have perpetuated an endless series of put-downs about the many spirit events in which they participated—"participated" in a kindly pretense. They might have obtained valuable material, but they have been operating with the wrong paradigm, that of the positivists’ denial.
Edith Turner in Shamanism, Spring/Summer 1997, Vol. 10, No. 1. The Reality of Spirits
Edith Turner passed away today, she was 95.
Celebrating the Works of Edith “Edie” Turner Youtube video
(via protoslacker)
