There is a rich literature on denial of atrocities including most notably the Nazi Holocaust of European Jewry. (Cohen, Stan, States of Denial: Knowing about Atrocities and Suffering, London, Polity, 2001).
We...live inside a matrix...[its] hegemonic power...only strengthened since [911]. Lies...repeated until... accepted as truth...by a bloated, myopic...bureaucracy...stench of pork is everywhere...
'Pompous, patronizing, paternalistic, a celebrity colonialist, Bono's got a fetishized obsession w/Africa's ability to give him 'a sense of purpose.' [paraphrases/various]. "Because Africa seems unfinished...a landscape on which a person can sketch a new
Old (hearks way back to 2001, if you can believe it) and new, all at once. Some things never change. Guess the "torch" didn't consume all the "straw men," despite "craphound's" best efforts. This is still highly relevant. That's all.
One of the key issues of the future will concern whether communications and culture are increasingly commodified or are decommodified. Who will control the media and technologies of the future, and debates over the public's access to media, media accounta
Freebase information is freely sharable under the Creative Commons Attribution license, and already has captured structured data from Wikipedia, four million songs, 100,000 restaurants and census information. Radar Networks, the other well funded steal
The Intellipedia consists of three wikis ...used by individuals with appropriate clearances from the 16 agencies of the United States intelligence community and other national-security related organizations, including Combatant Commands, and federal depar
“We’re trying to create the world’s database, with all of the world’s information,” says Hillis. How will this agenda alleviate growing risks of fashioning a global information monopoly?
The "expert" arrogance that occasionally accompanies taxonomies...which are essential...information management tools...[does not acknowledge that] taxonomies are never done, they are not easily emergent, they are incredibly resource-intensive, and they do