Month: June 2014

Gaming [draft] [#digitalkeywords]

“Could it be that while ‘game’ itself was rooted in communion and enjoyment, the excess of the suffix ‘ing’, makes it border a little too on the risqué? Could it be that ‘gaming‘ is thus essentially subversive, connected ontically as it is to the dangerous wastefulness of gambling, and uncontainable as it is in its […]

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Cloud [draft] [#digitalkeywords]

“The web is full of beatific images of laptops sitting on heavenly clouds.  The rhetoric of the data cloud likes to exploit the peaceful, inconsequential parts of the tradition while suppressing the rest. ‘The cloud’ is a huge PR achievement for the IT industry, but it is profoundly deceptive.”   The following is a draft of an […]

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