Wikileaks isn’t new in any linear sense of “new.” It is properly new. It is sui generis, despite superficial similarities to other projects. New genera present new possibilities for new possibilities. Considerable capacity for change is generated from its existence. I dare to hope. In a world of bleak probabilities, that is a radical act.… [Read more…]
November 4, 2010
Buying newspapers is anachronistic: an affectation, like wearing a monocle, or keeping a pocketwatch. It is a long time since they were the sort of thing they once were, the primary medium for dissemination of true information. They instead exist as a corporate construct, justifying the employment of an increasingly circumscribed, self-appointed information elite known… [Read more…]
November 15, 2010
0