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The Artisan Internet

Thick braids rest on each breast while her interlocking fingers are clasped seductively behind her head. With eyes nearly closed, she looks as if she is either being pleasured or on heroin. Her jeans are unbuttoned; a sultry invitation. The peasant pigtails suggest...

Institutional Power and Networked Power

Institutional Power An institution builds up and expands its power by controlling the flow of information and building a reputation around that information. A university, for example, controls which professors it hires, what research it publishes, and which students...

[Review] The Big Switch: Rewiring The World, From Edison to Google

When we think about electricity the first name to come to mind is famed American inventor Thomas Edison, who filed the first of his more than 1,000 patents at the age of 21. In 1879, at the age of 32, Edison invented what today we call the light bulb. It was a...

The Expansion of Ignorance is Inevitable

In The Omnivore's Dilema Michael Pollan reminds us that food is an inelastic good, which is to say that, obesity aside, there is a limit to how many calories a person can consume in a single day. Any more and we would explode. Once we all reach that caloric daily...

Un Indi-Tecno-Hispter Latino de Corazón

La frase escrita en la pared al otro lado de la calle dice: Ni indigenismo, ni oligarquía Viva la revolución obrera La calle principal, de concreto arrugado y lleno de huecos, se ramifica en un vasto laberinto tejido de callejones empedrados, bautizados con los nombre...