Hypertelia: “a process of something surpassing its function or objective”. “With systems of economy, knowledge, and production, if they go too far in one direction they get carried away and over-reach their own limits, and at this moment lose themselves in reversal” — Baudrillard, Selected Interviews Kojève’s provocative suggestion was that the US, at its mad-Fordist […]
Read More Nostalgia for the EndA new internet is incoming. As reported by Financial Times yesterday, the “New IP”—a proposed paradigm-shift in the architecture of the web—was unveiled before the United Nations’ International Telecom Union by Huawei, China Unicom, and China Telecom. It’s a bid to rework the rework the existing IP addressing system by allowing devices in a common network to […]
Read More Tactile PowerRana Foroohar: The coronavirus outbreak is very likely the thing that tips us into full-blown recession; I would put that risk at pretty close to 50% for 2020 https://t.co/Pz4kDk0z0R — Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) March 9, 2020 “This is the big one”, declare Rana Foroohar and Edward Luce in FT. This ‘big one’ is the active threat […]
Read More Coronacrunch 2 / Industrial Policy Round-Up 3Its been a little over a week since the first industrial policy round-up, and new news in this go-round has come at a much slower pace—with the notable exception, of course, being the unexpected turns in the recent UK election, which has brought with it some surprising turns and uncertainties, particular where economic questions are […]
Read More Industrial Policy Round-Up #2Last week, I created a twitter for the purposes of scrapping our fave zone of cyberspace for mentions of industrial policy—follow Lil’ Industrial Policy Guy!—partly for the novelty of it, but also for keeping up with the ongoing conversations around the topic. It’s certainly been more active than I initially anticipated, and one of the […]
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Reciprocal Contradiction 