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OSS watch Link for those interested in open source (especially in relation to education): <a href=http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk> Oxford University's Open Source watch </a> As I mentioned on another thread, I met the fellow involved with this the other week; he's a real Stephensonian k-punk geek...

Computers are existentialists - computing beyond the pleasure principle I still think some people are missing my point. Articulating things in terms of existing human 'needs' - there are of course no human needs of any kind, the whole notion of need is ideological through and through -...

Following on from some remarks of Infinite Thought's on the Satanist sorry Catholic thread.... Few human beings have managed to be atheists. Nietzsche's parable of the 'Death of God', it should be remembered, was aimed not at the theists, but at 'those who did not believe in God.' It is they...

The question of realism is neither here nor there.... just because it isn't likely to happen doesn't mean that wouldn't be good if it did... it's about destratification, i.e. punk... There's no question that the machinic potential of computers is locked down by the graphic user interface; yes...

Matt, I think yr right about Mac obv (and as a neophyte PC user I am shocked by the fact that MS Plague really is as bad as --- no, scracth that, it's even WORSE --- than I had caricatured it as an inveterate Mac user. PC users, it simply is not normal or acceptable to have programs freezing for...

I agree that Powerpoint is an effective slide projector... that's the only way I'd use it.. it's when the WHOLE of the presentation is nothing but PP that things go to shit...

Kool... and Kurtz and K (Joseph)... cf D/G on Kafka: 'k, the k-function' the term k-punk has its origin Nick Land's 90s stuff. I've asked arch-archivist and uberscholar Sphaleotas to track down the first ref...

All k-punks out there should check out the IT survey in the Economist, which confirms what you don't have to be a rabid cyberpunk to know: most mass market IT is over-complex at the front end. Or too Prog as we k-punks have it. It seems that a staggering 66% of IT projects either fail outright...

OK... there are a number of possible takes on this that would reject carnal corporeality without signing up to Cartesian dualism: Spinoza ---- Spinoza refutes dualism, claiming, with Woebot, that the mind is the body (or the mind is the idea of the body). Crucial distinction for Spinoza is that...

I agree Powerpoint CAN be used effectively; the fact remains that - at least in my experience and that of many others I have spoken to - it simply is NOT. Why can't people listen, or read key points off a blackboard? As Jennifer said at the Moodle meeting, if the speaker has an organized mind...

Alan, no --- haven't come across any systematic critique of powerpoint --- just anecdotal grumbling --- this sounds like something Ccru would have made up as a hyperstitional avatar --- i.e. brilliant... Alex --- sounds like YOU shd be telling me about Moodle --- I was incredibly excited about...

This just in: 'I was born a Nazi, but of course I utterly reject Nazism. Utterly. Honestly. I reject it in the sense that I don't agree with any of the doctrines, naturally, but come on, I think it's fine to belong to the cultural group, you can't expect me to reject the ethnicity, these are my...

OK. I'll come in on this now, even though it is clearly a waste of time, since most of the Catholic apologists don't seem willing to read what I write, or to think beyond the very default categories that it aims to upset. First of all: I want everyone to put their cards on the table. If I'm...

The word 'dissensus' came to me while I was sitting on the 28th floor of Centrepoint a few weeks ago. They took me to the top of the mountain The view was of course stunning, literally sublime: London in all its unmanageable vastness, seen from both above and from its very heart. It was high...