A BLOG of various  PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS &  SPECULATIONS

TABLE of  CONTENTS

MMXII

  1. On Data Transgression and Technofetishism – May 17
  2. Data Transgression – May 16
  3. Ideology and You: Partners in Freedom – Apr 8
  4. Customized Lovers for Busy Working Professionals – Feb 11
  5. The Constitutive Antagonism of Cyberspace – Feb 9
  6. A Review of Sherry Turkle's Alone Together – Feb 6
  7. In Which Anonymous Infiltrates a Confidential Conference Call – Feb 4
  8. There is Only Cyberspace – Feb 3
  9. A Malfunction in the Cyborgologist Utopia – Jan 28
  10. On the Progressive Use of Copyright – Jan 19
  11. Facing The Google Vanguard – Jan 18
  12. Bertolt Brecht, Super Troll – Jan 16
  13. Anti-Capitalism and the Politics of Envy – Jan 14
  14. An Ambitious Plan For Putting Kickstarter Out of Business – Jan 8
  15. Notes on Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies – Jan 7
  16. The Peer Production Illusion Part III - A Society For & Against The Market – Jan 2

MMXI

  1. The Peer Production Illusion Part II - The Neoliberal Ideology of P2P – Dec 20
  2. The Peer Production Illusion Part I - The Myth of Open Source Software – Dec 19
  3. Photoshopping the Occupation – Dec 15
  4. The Network as Interpassive Object – Dec 12
  5. The Anarchist at the End of the Universe – Nov 28
  6. Consumer Activism in the Social Factory – Nov 17
  7. Instrumentalizing Social Life – Nov 16
  8. Qu'est-ce qu'une vraie femme? - Part 1 – Nov 12
  9. Qu'est-ce qu'une vraie femme? - Part 2 – Nov 12
  10. Social Media and Social Corrosion – Oct 28
  11. I Am Not Deceived – Oct 9
  12. iPhone, Commodified Resistance – Oct 7
  13. The Excess of Exaggeration – Sep 30
  14. Media Hypersexuality: Imaginary or Symbolic? – Sep 25
  15. Radical Monogamy – Sep 19
  16. Do You Want a Name For This World? – Sep 15
  17. The Girl Next Door is No Neighbor – Sep 14
  18. Erotic Capital and the Power of Beauty – Sep 13
  19. Home on the Range – Sep 6
  20. On Buddhism, Happiness and Pessimism – Aug 15
  21. London Riots: The Limits of Left and Right – Aug 10
  22. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Rioting in the 60s – Aug 9
  23. You Can't Check Out of the Peer-to-Peer Motel – Jul 29
  24. McLuhan's Ideology – Jul 20
  25. The Consultant in an Open Relationship Who Plays Settlers of Catan Nearly Twice a Day – Jul 19
  26. The Consultant in an Open Relationship Who Has Cheese Nearly Twice a Day – Jul 19
  27. Reading Network Culture – Jul 18
  28. A World of Disorderly Notions – Jul 14
  29. Capitalist Futures – Jul 11
  30. The Reflection Without The Vampire – Jul 11
  31. Antinomies of Liberalism – Jul 11
  32. Pixar's Class Problem – Jul 9
  33. Inauthentic Man – Jul 9
  34. Upper Class Chavs – Jun 30
  35. Since the Dawn of Time: A Series – Jun 23
  36. Hipster Runoff – Jun 17
  37. All True Thought Contains a moment of Paranoia – Jun 15
  38. Anti-Semitism is Bourgeois Self-Hatred – Jun 15
  39. My Workers Love Work! – Jun 12
  40. What is Appearance at its Most Radical? – Jun 10
  41. Elections as Market Competition & Consumer Choice – Jun 9
  42. Open Wallets, Open Minds – Jun 9
  43. Feedback Systems are Counterrevolutionary – Jun 8
  44. Madhouses for the Sane – Jun 6
  45. Their Sentences No Longer Have Meaning – Jun 5
  46. Since the dawn of time: A Series – Jun 4
  47. Socialism and Fear of Socialism – Jun 3
  48. Infidelity & The Ethics of Personal Happiness – May 31
  49. Adam Curtis on Self-organizing systems – May 30
  50. Freedom as the censorship of unfreedom – May 29
  51. Unfreedom in wants – May 26
  52. Crowding out of intrinsic motivations – May 25
  53. Crowdsourcing Mobile Application Development – May 25
  54. Disobedience affirms the order it ostensibly contests – May 24
  55. A Functioning Cog In Some Great Machinery – May 4
  56. How would ethical philosophers redesign Soccer? – May 3
  57. Zizek in the Cloud – May 3
  58. The Surprising Truth of How We're Being Motivated – Apr 24
  59. Neo-bohemia is Always Contaminated By Nostalgia – Apr 22
  60. The Dark Side of Humanist Management – Apr 12
  61. The Actuality of Ayn Rand – Apr 12
  62. Disengagement is a Luxury – Apr 11
  63. Google's Microformats & The Limit of Participation – Apr 5
  64. Happiness Comes at a Price – Mar 31
  65. The Greatest Lie of Capitalism – Mar 22
  66. The Greatest Spying Machine – Mar 15
  67. This is the Totalitarian Procedure – Mar 3
  68. A Steam Engine Has No Character – Feb 13
  69. My Wound Existed Before Me – Feb 12
  70. Marx Against State Ownership – Jan 31
  71. Politeness v. Tact – Jan 12
  72. Uncommitted Sins – Jan 10

MMX

  1. The Real as Virtual – Dec 27
  2. It is only through fantasy that the subject is constituted as desiring – Dec 21
  3. Ryan vs. Kant – Dec 13
  4. The Messianic Christ & The Limits of Empathy – Oct 4
  5. Have you ever been in love? – Oct 1
  6. Misreading Inception with Descartes – Jul 26
  7. Become like me and I will respect your difference – Jul 21
  8. In our unconscious, in the real of our desire, we are all murderers – Jun 12
  9. Why does truth arise through mistakes? – May 4
  10. Oppose Marijuana Legalization in Washington – May 3
  11. Beautiful Soul Syndrome – Mar 13
  12. Beauty & Madness – Mar 2
  13. We can't even escape from reality into fantasy any more – Feb 27
  14. Caught in Play – Feb 25
  15. Disillusionment of Modern Hedonism – Feb 12
  16. Become Yourself, Only Better – Jan 26
  17. A Hegelian angle on Heidegger – Jan 15
  18. The Americanization of Mental Illness – Jan 10

MMIX

  1. Biomorality of Happiness – Nov 25
  2. The Demise of the Big Other – Aug 27
  3. Dark City & Ideology – Aug 27
  4. How sex-positive is anti-sex – Jul 16
  5. Hedonism, Capitalism & Consumerism – Jul 11
  6. Moral Topology – May 15
  7. A New Kind of Ignorance – Feb 9
  8. The Psyche on the Outside – Jan 24
  9. The Impossible Object – Jan 24