One of today's more interesting episodes has been Bush's admission before a crowd of placid, obedient journalists that an administration official "likely" leaked the name of Valerie Plame to the press in an effort to punish her husband for his critical appraisal of the Bush regime's rationale for the preemptive invasion of Iraq ( Read more... )

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Livejournal's neverending vagina monologue puckish, and adriang (who should really know better) expressed frustration a while back that the anonymity of my journal prevents them from harassing myself and my co-workers. This has not been accidental. They let anyone onto this internet thing. I've already received the standard compliment of threats from ten year ( Read more... )

For anyone confused by all this "techno demonology" stuff, and curious to see exactly what I meant by this"By dividing the length of the bench into several smaller units, the designer has sabotaged the ability of the homeless to lay down on top of the surface. If you examine public space and parks in urban areas, you'll probably discover a whole ( Read more... )

With respect to nature, we can easily imagine a natural phenomenon that hurts or deprives moral patients. In fact most natural phenomenon probably do. Nature is "red in tooth and claw." The current system requires everyone to eat one another to survive. Nature means institutional infanticide and brutality. It means disease and constant struggle. It ( Read more... )

People familiar with my livejournal polemics must be aware of my antagonism towards libertarianism. That antagonism is directed at no small number of intellectual failures contained therein. It's Lockean provisions. The temporal bias of contractualism. The _catastrophe_ that is consequentialism. The failures of it's privatization and deregulatory ( Read more... )

It's into this context that livejournalist turkishb has presented me with Bronislaw Szerszynski's Techno Demonology thesis. I confess to having experienced some trepidation at it's content at first. The reassuringly secular overtones that intelligent people are consoled by, and that permeate the technological analysis of Winner, Ellul, Keniston and Noble ( Read more... )