{"id":11101,"date":"2012-07-22T15:00:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T19:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/?p=11101"},"modified":"2012-07-22T16:04:16","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T20:04:16","slug":"in-their-words-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2012\/07\/22\/in-their-words-3\/","title":{"rendered":"In Their Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Just some of my favorite quotes from what I read this past week on tech&amp;society:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/rhizome.org\/editorial\/2012\/jun\/6\/natural-history-surveillance\/\" target=\"_blank\">why is it that speculative art &amp; fiction is the only means of confronting &amp; thinking about surveillance culture?<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berfrois.com\/2012\/07\/legacy-russell-status-update\/\" target=\"_blank\">Within the digital arena, however, the [dead] body is mummified in the encasing of social media and the face these platforms maintain for the dead<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/1843007\/kickstarter-fundraising-or-a-new-kind-of-entertainment?partner=gnews\" target=\"_blank\">Kickstarter is just another form of entertainment. It&#8217;s QVC for the Net set<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.soundandsignifier.com\/research\/Experimental_Critical_Theory_Manifesto.htm\" target=\"_blank\">the desire of theory always involves a dimension of universalism<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/torontostandard.com\/culture\/they-become-what-they-behold-or-how-pretty-should-a-book-be\" target=\"_blank\">beautiful books become consumable objects that describe the taste of the reader who proudly displays them<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.ae\/self-aware-roomba-whirrs-for-thee\/\" target=\"_blank\">What does it mean to feel empathy for a twitter feed?<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2012\/07\/19\/a-new-privacy-part-3-documentary-consciousness\/\" target=\"_blank\">we are attuned not only to possibilities of documenting, but also to possibilities of being documented<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/about\/Romancing_the_Market.html?id=MlP7lz6l5KUC\" target=\"_blank\">consumers are consumed with consumption, take pleasure from pleasure, desire to desire and want to want<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blastr.com\/2012\/07\/comic-con-protesters-call.php\" target=\"_blank\">Comic-Con protesters call cyberpunk doorway to demonic possession<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just some of my favorite quotes from what I read this past week on tech&amp;society: &#8220;why is it that speculative art &amp; fiction is the only means of confronting &amp; thinking about surveillance culture?&#8221; &#8220;Within the digital arena, however, the [dead] body is mummified in the encasing of social media and the face these platforms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18297],"tags":[36439,2954],"class_list":["post-11101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-their-words","tag-in-their-words","tag-jurgenson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11101"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11109,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11101\/revisions\/11109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}