Category: Quotations
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Originally posted on Sounding Out!: The promiscuity of the mp3. Borrowed from NYCArthur on Flickr. The point that had lingered with me after first reading Jonathan Sterne’s essay “The mp3 as Cultural Artifact,” was the idea that the mp3 was a promiscuous technology. “In a media-saturated environment,” Sterne writes, “portability and ease of acquisition trumps…
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Bruno Latour: Deployment, stabilization, composition
Bruno Latour emphasizes three essential duties for faithfully engaging with social experiences: deployment of controversies to attract new participants, stabilization of uncertainties through actors’ standards and formats, and finally, understanding how these assemblages can enhance our collective identity. This framework aims to strengthen our social connections.
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Henri Lefebvre: Audio ressources on the Web
Interview, 56’41” 1975-10-02 – Henri LEFEBVRE, sociologue : pourquoi il se définit comme “méta-philosophe”, le concept de mondialité ; ses origines, ses parents, ses rapports avec ses étudiants (allusion à Daniel COHN-BENDIT). Son activité d’opposant au sein du PCF pendant 10 ans, son exclusion du PCF, ce qu’il pense de Herbert MARCUSE, ce qu’il pense…
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Organisation’s lethal selfpreservation
Originally posted on Larval Subjects .: For the last couple of days, I’ve found my thoughts haunted by McKenzie Wark’s brilliant interview over at Occupy Times. Apart from Wark’s provocative claim that politics doesn’t exist– though perhaps it could come to exist, in a sense analogous to how Meillassoux talk of a “virtual god”? –this…
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Quotation: H. Marcuse on the individual’s loss of autonomy
“It is not only the speed and range which distinguishes the means of mass communication from their predecessors. The new quality is introduced by the progressive transfer of power from the human individual to the technical or bureaucratic apparatus, from living to dead labor, from personal to remote control, from a machine or group of…
Building Sound Collectives 