The capitalist is entirely identified with surplus value; when it dies, the world dies with it. In realityland it is capitalism that is apocalyptic. Correlation is the situation produced by the need for increasingly rapid and voluminous transfers throughout the financial network; credit, what is transferred. Profits are made by balancing local risks, and then striking at increasingly slighter and briefer differentials. The strikes must therefore be delivered with ever-greater force. So there must be ever more channels and ever more liquidity to pour through them. Thus the rise in the extension of “leverage” — the ratio of borrowed to held assets — is not a “failure of fundamentals” but an absolute inevitability of finance capital. Another way to describe the relation between correlation and credit, alongside channels and liquidity, is that between circulation and production. They too are part of the series of guarantees. They too have to be believed.Consumer credit is bottom turtle. - katepe
new publication, modestly entitled Issue 1. This e-text is 3785 pages long (!); each page contains a “poem” attributed to one of 3785 3164 writers. The names of the writers range from Silliman himself and other language poets, through a number of (now dead) poets and writers, onto various bloggers (especially ones who appear in Silliman’s blogroll, it would seem). In point of fact, none of the writers have actually written the pieces attributed to them. Some seems kind of pissed off (but not all) of the commenters on his blog entry. - katepe
The very first time to integrate real-time Twitter messages (aka "tweets") over major portions of a live television broadcast. Hack the Debate by adding your Twitter posts to our live broadcast of the 2008 Presidential Debates. During the debates, chime in by including "#current" in your tweet. - katepe
Steven Johnson says the Web is like a city: built by many people, completely controlled by no one, intricately interconnected and yet functioning as many independent parts. While disaster strikes in one place, elsewhere, life goes on. - katepe
malo sam skratio program, ne zamjeri - Ognjen Strpić
nadam se da ste se i vi i oni dobro proveli, ostalo je manje bitno ;) - katepe
ognjen strpić napravio je nevjerojatno nepristojnu i po mene i mog momka neugodnu, a po libru neprofesionalnu i neozbiljnu te generalno nezrelu stvar. meni nije toliko ludo bilo stalo do promocije pa ni ne žalim osobito zbog toga šta se nije održala, ali je meni i mom momku stalo do toga da ako mislimo da ćemo imati posla s odraslom osobom, i imamo posla s odraslom osobom. - Rusulica
ajd ljudi ne znam o cemu je rijec ali nadam se da ce se sve srediti.... - katepe
(We have reached the third degree where we devote our intelligence to anticipating what average opinion expects the average opinion to be.) People will often say, stupidly, ‘Don’t just talk, do something!’...Like quickly throwing $700 billion at a problem instead of reflecting on how it came about. If the bailout plan really is a ‘socialist’ measure, it is a very peculiar one: a ‘socialist’ measure whose aim is to help not the poor but the rich, not those who borrow but those who lend. ‘Socialism’ is OK, it seems, when it serves to save capitalism. What all this indicates is that the market is never neutral: its operations are always regulated by political decisions. The real dilemma is not ‘state intervention or not?’ but ‘what kind of state intervention?’ - katepe
A raft of lifestreaming applications - I think the reference to "web" and "blogging" for tools in this space is a misnomer. For they're not really writing tools, but speaking tools. With a different kind of speaking, and of conversation, of course. If profile-based social networking sites are page-based, lifestreaming apps are time-based. The Now Web is engaged in not by writing (blogging), but by being in the flow (or by observing the flow from the river's edge, if that be your preference). - katepe
Audience verbs are the actions the audience is normally allowed to control. Regardless of how many verbs the game provides, it is not unusual to reach a point where the storyteller decides it’s time to take over the story and restrict the audience’s control over these verbs. This is very frequently done with cut scenes. In Half Life 2 you can even see your protagonist lower his weapon–a nice way of communicating to the audience, in-game, that shooting friends isn’t within the storyteller’s understanding of the story. Adventure games dating back to Zork used this same tactic, providing responses like, “That doesn’t do anything,” or, “I’m not putting my lips on that,” when the audience attempted to use verbs in non-useful ways. If the storyteller’s story contains violent audience verbs such as shoot, then it is imperative that the storyteller provide context and consequence (need for context for the violence in our games). - katepe
The survey, Teens, Video Games and Civics, was conducted with 1102 young people aged 12-17. Some are saying the results are “surprising” and even that they “shatter stereotypes” by finding that almost all US teens play games (console, mobile, online, etc) and at least half play games on a given day. Other findings include that most teens play games socially, either with others physically or online, and these games can “incorporate many aspects of civic and political life.” Interestingly, this study, with its particular look at civic engagement, found that “civic gaming experiences” (defined in the study) occurred equally among all kinds of game players without distinction among income, race, and ethnicity categories. - katepe
