¿De pertenencia o acceso a la información?
Lo que sigue es mi breve intervención en el panel de “A quien le pertenece la información” que se realizó la semana pasada en Campus Party. Un video de la discusión está disponible en YouTube. Quiero ofrecer una pequeña anécdota para cuestionar como es que...The Sleepless and the Stressful
I have always been shit at falling asleep. Ideally I would fall asleep at 11 p.m. Every night. Instead, this is typically when I sit back down at my computer to read all the open tabs and unread emails that have accumulated throughout the day. The I check Twitter one...Democracy Building 2.0: The Open Government Partnership, Game Changer or Symbolic Slogan?
Tomorrow morning, representatives from more than 55 national governments meet in Washington DC to kick off what might be a multilateral, 21st century reboot of good old democracy-building, a term tainted by eight years of George W. Bush. Activists and international...![[Review] Let the Great World Spin](https://i0.wp.com/davidsasaki.name/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/231006spet11-1.jpg?resize=538%2C361&ssl=1)
[Review] Let the Great World Spin
The world spins by ever faster, a phenomenon not just of growing older — accumulating our own extensive, personal archive — but also a product of every generation leaving behind more for us to chew on, despite the same amount of time to chew. We mostly survive by...![[Translation] The Military and the Homicide Rate in Mexico: A Meditation](https://i0.wp.com/davidsasaki.name/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/OG-Merino1-1.jpg?resize=425%2C254&ssl=1)
[Translation] The Military and the Homicide Rate in Mexico: A Meditation
What follows is my translation of José Merino’s article for this month’s Nexos magazine. With clearly presented statistical analysis, he shows that the deployment of the Mexican military in the so-called “War on Drugs” has led to a sustained...![[Review] Down and Delirious in Mexico City](https://i0.wp.com/davidsasaki.name/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Screen-shot-2011-05-21-at-9.37.PM_-1.jpg?resize=425%2C240&ssl=1)
[Review] Down and Delirious in Mexico City
A nini ethnography In 2009, the word did not yet exist in Mexico. Yet by August 2010, it was nearly impossible to watch the nightly news without suffering through yet another segment, interview, or monologue about the country’s nini Phenomenon. Nini, ni estudian...Why I still read novels
A friend asked me how and why it is I find the time to still read novels despite the fact that none of us have time to do anything these days. In last week’s New York Times Magazine, A.O. Scott penned an interesting meditation on Susan Sontag’s...[Review] Everyman
I believe that we can only appreciate life when confronted with the irrevocable finality of death. I have never loved life more than in the immediate aftermath of when I was certain I would die. On those rare, few occasions everything changes. The concept of free will...Too Much Information – Week Ending May 6
What follows is a hyperlinked version of the weekly newsletter of the Information Program of Open Society Foundations. Next week Becky Hogge will take up the newsletter one again. You can continue to follow new editions at her blog. News Turkey’s 138 Forbidden...Latest Photos
