What else can the hygiene lobby think of? Entrepreneurs from Warren County (Ohio, in case you’re interested) gave a small donation to high school students in the area, and had …
“Smart” mask
Do you have troubles hearing what they tell you, behind the masks? Do you need to repeat what you say because they can’t hear you? Do you feel like you …
The puppies of Pavlok
Social media is the place par excellence for “shocking” advertisements, let alone in the era of generalized quarantine where online consumers are ready to invest in any product that promises …
Let’s finish with digital immigrants!
Among other things, the provisions made for returning to schools this year include health examinations, “thorough cleaning”, gloves and masks, demarcation of space and time, tele-procedures and tracing protocols. One …
contactless contacts
It is said that students at American universities have adopted the Tinder dating app so much that they no longer form relationships in any other way. And that whoever has …
Social alienation and “contact” surveillance
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 …
A handful more observations
It is likely to be disconcerting that a story presented as a “mass public-health problem” (like covid-19) is in practice far more and far more significant… And that, consequently, the …
Behavior surveillance and control/shaping: the only real health is the health of the 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 …
Fear is the best medicine (of the system)
Hygiene 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 …
Emergency button
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 …
Impersonation
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 …
Fiction
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.