Tag: misanthropy
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Radiohead backs WW2-style austerity program
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Andrew Orlowski
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Misery will be compulsory, if top rockers Radiohead have their way. The band have thrown their weight behind a “World War 2”-style programme of austerity measures: including restrictions on behaviour, and higher taxes. Last week, two newspaper columnists called for a return to the kind of social coercion only ever seen before in wartime. It’s…
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One-Click™ colonialism
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Andrew Orlowski
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The music industry has a long and shameful history of robbing black artists of their rights. Now along comes some new software that will help speed up the job. Think of it as a sort of 1-Click “non-payment” system. Liblicense is a project that Creative Commons hopes to integrate with MIT Media Lab’s OLPC, or…
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Whatever happened to… The Wisdom of Crowds?
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Andrew Orlowski
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Future social historians looking back at the web cult – which met in San Francisco this week for a $3,000-a-head “summit” – may wonder what made them tick. Scholars could do worse than examine their superstitions. We’ll bet that lurking on the bookshelf of almost every “delegate” was a copy of James Surowiecki’s The Wisdom…
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Neurosis as a lifestyle: remixing revisited
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Andrew Orlowski
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“We stand on the last promontory of the centuries! Why should we look back, when what we want is to break down the mysterious doors of the impossible ? Time and Space died yesterday. We already live in the absolute, because we have created eternal, omnipresent speed” – Fillippo Marinetti, 1909 When a year ago…