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A critique of Galloway’s Protocol: ‘Interrogating the Algorithm pt II’

So, the following will not be for everyone.  It is in fact, at times, a bit shouty.  But some of this really got my goat.  The idea that technology is not value-neutral and that it manifests cultural assumptions and reflects and sometimes enforces existing power structures is an important one.  In light of our increasingly […]

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The power of networks.

Of course, whilst network theory has moved from being edgy or fashionable to just kind of a ‘given’ now, it’s still nice to see the concept being communicated as well as this. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJmGrNdJ5Gw&w=560&h=315] I find the section towards the end, when talk moves to that of the ‘rennaisance man’ and the polymath, extremely comforting […]

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