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Berto Jongman: Prison Letters — Pussy Riot and Slavoj Zizek

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot’s prison letters to Slavoj Žižek Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova is currently in a prison hospital in Siberia; here she and Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek meet in an extraordinary exchange of letters • Pussy Riot: composer Cecilie Ore’s choral tribute to the punk band Slavoj Žižek, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova The Guardian, Friday 15 …

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Patrick Meier: Digital Humanitarians: From Haiti Earthquake to Typhoon Yolanda

Digital Humanitarians: From Haiti Earthquake to Typhoon Yolanda We’ve been able to process and make sense of a quarter of a million tweets in the aftermath of Typhoon Yolanda. Using both AIDR (still under development) and Twitris, we were able to collect these tweets in real-time and use automated algorithms to filter for both relevancy and uniqueness. The …

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Marcus Aurelius: Five Takeaways from a Decade of War [Defense One] Plus Blistering Alternative View from Phi Beta Iota Editors

Five Takeaways from a Decade of War Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, in a keynote address at the Center for Strategic and International Studies this week, signaled to military commanders that they should assume the across-the-board, automatic spending cuts imposed by sequester over the next decade will remain in place indefinitely. “We do not have …

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Patrick Meier: Social Media, Disaster Response, and the Streetlight Effect

Social Media, Disaster Response and the Streetlight Effect Posted on November 7, 2013 | 2 Comments A police officer sees a man searching for his coin under a streetlight. After helping for several minutes, the exasperated officer asks if the man is sure that he lost his coin there. The man says “No, I lost them …

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Chuck Spinney: The United States of Confusion and Disorder

The United States of Confusion and Disorder Descent into Chaos by FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY COUNTERPUNCH, WEEKEND EDITION NOVEMBER 1-3, 2013 The US exit strategy from Afghanistan is emerging …. and the picture is not pretty. Nevertheless, it is a revealing microcosm of what now passes for governance in the United States of Confusion and Disorder. …

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4th Media: Global Power Project (Part I, II, & III)

Part I: Global Power Project: Exposing the Institute of International Finance This is the first of a series of exposés focusing on the Institute of International Finance (IIF), the very “visible hand” of financial markets. It is a continuation of the Global Power Project produced by Occupy.com. Part 1 examines the origins of the IIF. Founded …

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Jean Lievens: A Typology of Openness (Tim Berners Lee via Michel Bauwens)

A typology of openness Tim Berners-Lee: “I was recently asked to talk about the idea of “open”, and I realized the term is used in at least eight different ways. The distinct interpretations are all important in different but interlocking ways. Getting them confused leads to a lot of misunderstanding, so it’s good to review …

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