After the attacks on the Twin Towers, on September 11, 2001, the world entered a "new normality". On the occasion of these attacks, new practices and technologies of surveillance and repression were installed throughout the spectrum of public and private space, which nullified the civil liberties granted until then....

Remember the "debate" last spring / summer about digital tracking techniques? When mobile phones would (supposedly) communicate with each other "informing" their users that they were "at a distance of infection" from someone "positive"? And that all this would be done "anonymously" and with "respect for privacy"?A few days...

The australian government, wanting to protect the health of its citizens (what else would a government want today?), last April, suggested that they download a contact-tracing application on their mobile phones… To protect them from the bad encounter with… you know who! Given that users (of the application) had...

Eye movement, hand trembling, body posture, contradictions in narratives and much more, are elements of the live communication that can show (or hide) the sincerity. The codification of these elements, first as subject matter of the social and behavioral sciences and then as data fed to machines that design...

Under no circumstances would we recommend… netflix to anyone! Or anything like that. (Some book yes…) But on the occasion of the documentary "the social dilemma", where various "repentant" executives / inventors of applications and technologies that have proven to be huge commercial successes and cultural / intellectual /...

How easy is it for everyone to create their own reality? However easy it used to be in the past, the possibilities offered by the new technologies of the 4th industrial revolution make it even easier - and more "fun". As the means change and evolve, the end remains...

If you were planning to travel outside national borders, even within the "Schengen area", you certainly have various problems, difficulties, obstacles. Everything may be hastily built, but violently on the theorem of infectivity of social relations. Many (state and business) "resources" have been allocated to maintain the terror -...

If they can find out, through the mobile location signal, who's inside a shop to shop, then they can tell who's came in to loot it! Right? Right - but this fact escapes perception…Foursquare, for example, is a 12-year-old american technology company. It specializes in (geographical) location determination that...

The control of the media and, consequently, the manipulation by the media is not a new trick. If we still need to prove that "the news" are used as reality shapers, then we are many steps behind anything competitive. However, during the "pandemic crisis" it seemed that this was...

On May 5, england began the pilot application of the contact surveillance platform on White Isle. Undersecretary of state for "health and social welfare" Matt Hancock announced the launch of the program with a short video that would look more like a "war and armaments" ministry order. In this...

Something tell us (not “something”, but many things tell us!) that when from this marginal corner of cyberspace we insist that the supposedly killer covid-19 virus is the alibi for and flag of violent reconstruction of social relations (of the social factory), the violent and fast acceleration of machine...

On April 5th, one could light-heartedly read in the pages of the regime newspaper kathimerini:Kaushik Basu, an economics professor at Cornell university and a former “world bank” chief economist from 2012 to 2016: “…We know from older studies that pandemics damage trust among people and this may, in turn,...

Dead don't dieHygiene phobias (of all scales and intensities) are a direct expression of fears related to ablebodiedness, youth and death. For a (measured!) century now, (eternal) youth and immortality have been the basic (if not the only) clichés of advertising; of the promotion of commodities. The conceptual material...

It has (or it say it has) 50 million users/customers worldwide. Perhaps they are not many. The online matchmaking app Tinder, and its owner, deserves to celebrate this accomplishment, establishing itself as an intermediary of human libidinal currents across the globe. And, of course, nothing is done for free:...

Google knows...where you have been infected... what about you?The (official) data show that the chinese government has managed to control the spread of the infection and then (as a result) the deaths from the steadily “weak” covid-19. The new cases of infection in the chinese territory are significantly lower...

Vermont is a peculiar state among the others of the u.s.a.. It is generally considered a progressive one (one of the presidential candidates for the DNC primary elections, Bernie Sanders, has been continually elected as u.s. Vermont senator since 2007). From time to time, in this state there is...

There is an urban legend, a variation of an older fairy tale, which explains how to boil a living frog. As the legend says, if you put a frog into a pot of hot water, it will immediately feel the heat and out of instinct will jump out and...

The above image depicts the favorite incident of those who predict the danger posed by the 21st-century technological developments: a rather microscopic drone puts a bullet in a head… Who kills whom and why? The victim becomes known -but what about the perpetrator? Is it due to personal differences?...

In the age of generalized surveillance of digital communications, there are always romantics (possibly representing themeselves as "experts") who believe and propagate that the privacy of communications can be technically protected: through encryption.However, we know that various apps (like whatsup) that are offered as encrypted, are already broken by...

Alice Bergmann lives in Chemnitz, germany, and has a serious problem with islam. She must overcome an overwhelming shock, the murder of her sister Elizabeth a few years ago in a park in Berlin. Both killers were immigrants."I have a lot of hatred inside me, a lot of anger,...

Swarm. It doesn't flash, it doesn't shoot, so these are fish birds.Drones. In Shanghai. The New Year's spectacle ("New Year's Eve" with the western calendar - not chinese…) was cute.With one difference: these hundreds of drones that make these flawless formations are not made to be displayed at celebrations...

Displays. In Paris. As a ritual invocation to an unknown god, tens of thousands of remote controls of daily life ascend to the night sky - for the sake of the "New Year's welcome" - in front of a gate of some triumph… There seems to be no one...

These damn criminals use social events (weddings, baptisms, funerals) to meet and organize their evil actions… (Coppola has also shown it…) What can the honest state do? It decides to nationalize the social events, which from now on will be held exclusively in specific places, under the modest supervision...

This is how Blade Runner begins, the legendary film by Ridley Scott, shot in 1982. L.A. is a fragmented city with a "top" and a "bottom" world, and a key security issue is the seizure of "invaders" - biotechnological humanoids that "work" on other planets.

The existence of "likes" on social media may not be beneficial. Its inventors, of course, had the good in mind. The ability of users to express their (positive) taste; or, in other words, their ability to have taste of a second, engineerable as their "data".But now sociological research shows...

We can not verify the accuracy of this table. But it has a value. It shows that what in everyday life is meant as "personal" and "unique" is simply a component of a huge and ever-increasing mass.One by one the citizens of developed capitalism are very proud of their...

Why has an application become so popular that we have to wonder about the mental state of the subjugated? The well-known "FaceApp" (of the russian wireless lab) has been available since 2017; however, in 2019 a stormy "discovery" occurred, resulting in at least 80 million active users today.But what...

There is now an epidemic of live facial recognition surveillance in the u.k. The fusion of the police and private companies about the construction of these surveillance networks in public places is extremely worrying. Facial recognition is the perfect tool of oppression and the fact that we are discovering...

There is a serious (to scary) side to the issue. But there is also the more comical one. The fact that only one european and one american city (London and Atlanta) are in the top ten most monitored cities in the world shows two things. First of all, why...

Is it useless information what "happens" in a minute, every minute, in cyberspace with the current 4G capabilities?Maybe. What the cyborg magazine (out of peculiarity, obviously) sees on this 60-second disc is the density and intensity of (digitally) mediated social relationships. In other words, it sees an order of...

The (electronic) social credit system works in china! For those who do not know, it is something like a platform where not only government agencies but also citizens assess each other, by specific criteria of social responsibility. Something like "like" + "rating" but for "serious purposes", under the guarantee...

Could machines be the object of sexual attraction? Do not rush to answer with an ironic "no". When talking about "erotic machines" one should not be limited to the robotic humanoids that already appear, in female forms, either in robotic brothels or for "private ownership / use".One should definitely...

The scene could be left without comment if it was not a moment of repression. He is an israeli military cop, she is a palestinian. He is strapped with grenades, she has her bag on her shoulder.One can assume that this double capture is the most mainstream that could...

And you may find yourself / Living in a shotgun shack / And you may find yourself / In another part of the world / And you may find yourself / Behind the wheel of a large automobile / And you may find yourself in a beautiful house /...

It is not easy to come up against 500,000 cameras and sensors in all public places; even if one wanted to. If the gift of this giga-panopticon is absolute security then anyone who has objections can, at least for the time being, be accused of unsubstantial ideology…Shanghai is the...