Charity is the humanitarian mask hiding the face of economic exploitation.
No no, but I’m traveling toward that area of the State (read: Republic of Texas) every so often. We’ll do something soon.
The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between this profusion of matter and the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.
(via signa)
Social Media Propaganda
Shop owner and design Justonescarf provides us with an idea of what propaganda would look like for the various social media networks out there.
We can only wonder how different this will be in a few years…how many unexpected brands will appear and how many will sink to oblivion.
How to Engage in Social Media: A Dell Perspective View more documents from Dell Enterprise.
Theme parks like Disneyland now simulate the experiences of space travel, submarine voyages, driving on the Autobahn, strolling through the French Quarter in New Orleans, expeditions through the “Western Frontier,” nostalgic walks down “Main Street” America, and journeys into fairy tales and children’s stories. Baudrillard argues that Disneyland is a perfect model of a simulation. Disneyland is not just simply a simulated fantasyland, but instead it is present as fantasy, which, ironically, leads us to believe that the rest of America is real. Thus for Baudrillard, in contrast to the simulated malls and theme restaurants of everyday “real life,” Disneyland is more authentic than “reality” because it does not purport to be “real.
Gilles Deleuze et Claire Parnet
“Deleuze’s Postscript on the Societies of Control”
Because we can all use a little more Deleuze in our lives.
… the Nietzschean revolution leads thought into an asubjective becoming: a comet-thought, the wandering star whose variations in speed and whose creativity constitute its coherence …
Can you imagine logos telling the truth? The latest of the ‘Honest Logos’ series by Viktor Hertz
This is one in a series of vintage ads for current websites as imagined by Brazilian advertising agency Moma. (…) The ads were designed for an upcoming media seminar with the overall theme of ‘what’s new today, is old tomorrow’, so they retro stylized Facebook, Youtube and Skype (and Twitter, not in English).
Source: http://www.geekologie.com/2010/08/these_tubes_are_old_vintage_we.php
