The clear atmosphere of the metropolis appeared from time to time, in the form of panoramic photos, in the good news of the quarantine days. One positive side effect of …
Article 230
Twenty-six words in an article of a 1996 u.s. law allowed the internet to be what we know it to be; and in “content publishing” giants like google, facebook and …
Contact surveillance – the applications
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 …
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 …
From small…
It’s a tiny, microscopic principality; its area is just a little more than 1/20 of Athens. A population of barely 40,000. Yet it has a capital called Vaduz. It’s mountainous, …
Keep your distances!
Or else a great disaster will fall upon you! Every aspect of everyday life can be mechanized… and if you/we do not like this, you/we must find what to do and how, without the illusion: “nooo, wayyy, they can’t do that.”
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 …
Censorship techniques: an apartheid’s example
The israeli apartheid on palestinian land could not, at a time when information “circulates freely”, fail to also include a corresponding digital apartheid, or the control and censorship in information concerning itself and circulating on the world wide web. The practice of censorship or reality distortion was always the basic toolbox of any totalitarian regime. And israel sets the example for even that.
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 …
Open letter to the Prime Minister of Germany
Maintaining our political criticism, whether in the terror campaign surrounding covid-19, or in the “medical body” that lends its authority to neocapitalism, we find it wrong to omit the medical …
Capitalism, the state and epidemics: Event 201
The Event 201 simulates the outbreak of a new coronavirus of animal origin that is transmitted from bats to swine and eventually manages to be transmitted from human to human, …
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 …