everything is connected to something

Already deeply unpopular with the communities upon which they are being imposed, the potential for datacenters to become sites of sabotage and warfare is not going to help their public image in the slightest.

https://www.velcro-city.co.uk/everything-is-connected-to-something/

#Futures #InfrastructuralTheory #Technology #WeakSignals

right about the problems but hilariously, tragically wrong about the solutions

Everyone seems to be talking or thinking or reading (about) Stewart Brand right now, which I presume must mean he's made or making or about to make some new intervention in the culture.

https://www.velcro-city.co.uk/right-about-the-problems-but-hilariously-tragically-wrong-about-the-solutions/

#Criticism #Futures #InfrastructuralTheory #SocialTheory #Technology

Some people write to be heard.
I write to expose the architecture.

“I don’t come to negotiate with broken systems.
I come to expose the architecture that keeps them broken.”
—SignalRupture

#SR
#InfrastructuralTheory
#SystemicDesign
#StylometricCanon
#ArchitecturalDirectness

if the house keeps winning they’ll just burn it down

One of the previous year's surprisingly difficult lessons has been the need to stop considering reportage from the US as in any way representative of a baseline for circumstances elsewhere.

https://www.velcro-city.co.uk/if-the-house-keeps-winning-theyll-just-burn-it-down/

#Futures #InfrastructuralTheory #Politics #Sociology

I surrendered to the strangeness, and the strange­ness started to make sense

https://www.velcro-city.co.uk/i-surrendered-to-the-strangeness-and-the-strangeness-started-to-make-sense/

#Art #Criticism #InfrastructuralTheory #Music #Technology #Worldbuilding

Paradoxical Containment: The Double Externalization of Packaging, and the Overextension of the Metasystemic Prosthesis

https://www.velcro-city.co.uk/paradoxical-containment-the-double-externalization-of-packaging-and-the-overextension-of-the-metasystemic-prosthesis/

#AcademicPublications #InfrastructuralTheory #Writing

a mixture of Vatican clergy and the Wizard of Oz: on hype, strategy, and postmodernity

https://www.velcro-city.co.uk/a-mixture-of-vatican-clergy-and-the-wizard-of-oz-on-hype-strategy-and-postmodernity/

#Futures #InfrastructuralTheory #SocialTheory #Technology

Butlerian jihad (slight return)

https://www.velcro-city.co.uk/butlerian-jihad-slight-return/

#Art #Criticism #InfrastructuralTheory #Technology