marginal utility annex

An annex to my writing elsewhere.

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Quantified self as executive unfitness

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Notes on Shoshana Zuboff, In the Age of the Smart Machine (1988) 1. The effect of information technology and increasing mediation of pers...
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Sunday, May 06, 2012

notes from Machine Dreams

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Economics as the search for a meaningful definition of "rationality" -- the impact of computer science on economics has been to di...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Facebook, Projective City, Post-authenticity, Data Self

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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

material on abstract labor cut from Theorizing the Web presentation

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Another way of understanding the dynamism of capitalism is through its continual need to produce a flow of “abstract labor” as well as oppor...
Thursday, April 05, 2012

James Raven's Judging New Wealth; contradictions in the commodity form of the book

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Raven examines the British book business in the second half of the 18th century, explaining how the book became more of an everyday commodit...
Saturday, March 31, 2012

Francesca Woodman notes

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Preliminary ideas Francesca Woodman is definitely the sort of artist whose work is overshadowed by her life. I'm forced to wonder if I...
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

social graph vs. social class

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I've hated the term social graph since Facebook first seized upon it to try to legitimate and intellectualize their project of subsumin...
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