Tag: Politics
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Occupy Wall Street – The Bad, The Good and the Uncertain – Part 3
Part 3 – The Uncertain (previously: The Bad) (previously: The Good) Strangely enough I want to start with certainties. Knowing what I know about Occupy Wall Street should help me to know what I don’t know. So what am I reasonably certain about? I am certain that America is approaching the status of Police State,…
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Occupying Wall Street – The Bad, The Good and the Uncertain – Part 2
Part 2 – The Good (previously: The Bad) Saturday was a glorious fall day with blue skies and bright sunshine. At 3:30 pm I was in The New Schools’ Wollman Hall, having just given a talk on post-literate activism at the Mobility Shifts conference, when we started to hear the unmistakable sounds of the Global…
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The Army of Love and Software – NY update 1
So I’ve been in New York for a few hours now and plan to head down to do my Public Gifting action at Occupy Wall Street this evening (Friday) after I attend a talk by Geert Lovink at the New School. Yesterday, Geert, a Dutch new media activist, and his collaborator Franco Berardi released an…
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Literate Debt in the Digital Age
Literate culture has mortgaged its future. Who will pay? In OS1 (oral) cultures, debt did not exist. Obligations existed. You can, for example owe someone your gratitude, or your allegiance, or your help or your vengeance in OS1 culture. But obligations in OS1 culture are defined by relationships between people. Whereas in OS2 (literate) cultures,…
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Slammin’
I’ve had a nasty prejudice against Poetry Slams ever since I led the first Canadian team to the first National Poetry Slam in San Francisco in 1992. That event was so so unsatisfying in so many ways – so self-indulgent and self-satisfied and poetically unadventurous – that it led my poetic teammates (Kedrick James and…
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