Lost in Cyberspace
Lost in cyberspace by Hans Atom
Lost in cyberspace by Hans Atom
This video always gets me excited…in an academic sort of way, of course.
Today, information is architecture and urban planning by other means, framing and contouring the relative motility of social intercourse. While the city remains a locus of this staging and dissimulation of security, it is supplanted by other network media that have assumed some of its traditional mandates. Now highly evolved species of de Fourcroy’s tableau [...]
Chapter I They came separately, but close together: computer intrusions from the Mideast casing U.S. dams/electric systems; then, scientists’ stark letter to President Bush that warned of America’s “grave risk.”
For this project, the behavior of concern will be cyberwar. The difficulties of defining cyberspace notwithstanding, cyberwar is legally, politically, and socially complex. War might be ancient, but cyberwar is not. This disconnection creates difficulties for scholars, lawyers, diplomats, soldiers and civilians.[1. Brenner, Susan. 2009. Cyberthreats: The Emerging Fault Lines of the Nation State. New [...]
The cosmos of cyberspace is “expanding inside the ever more powerful computers proliferating around the world. Cyberspace is the perfection of the electronic nothingness that awaits to be filled with representations of the world as a massive extension of the human consciousness that seeks to fill its own nothingness” (Vacker 2009)—crashing into vanishing points. Class [...]
أهلاً و سهلاً, Willkommen, 欢迎光临, Bienvenue, स्वागत, Welcome to the revolution!
I find myself immersed in an ever proliferating sea of URLs, TumblrLs, Twitter identities to match with the aforementioned, and meanwhile constantly struggling to keep stored, edited, and backed-up an exponential amount of data that if lost I’ll practically cease to exist.
The event horizon of a black hole is our existence. We living at a moment of significance—a moment that is simultaneously done, happening and yet to be. It is one that is critically transformative producing identities of Me, of You, and completely instantaneously constructed of “We, Us, as They and Them,” a product of the [...]