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Behind Enemy Lines With a Suburban Counterterrorist

"Rossmiller succeeds by exploiting a fundamental flaw in al Qaeda's famously decentralized organization. The absence of a strict hierarchy makes it pretty easy for a cunning person to mix among the terrorists."

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Postmodernism's Most Important Gift

"Postmodernism's great gift to humankind is this challenging of assumptions, and this is an important matter for our new century. Why? Because in every walk of life, our failed institutions are rooted in assumptions that need challenging"

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Reinventing the conference, blogger and new media style

"What we want from a conference is not a surrogate intelligence of a big name speaker. What we want is a tide that delivers new and interesting things that present themselves in fresh and unexpectedly formed ways."

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Baudrillard Simulacra and Simulations

"The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth--it is the truth which conceals that there is none."

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How To

A great Flickr photoset with things including "How to Understand Postmodernism"

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Reality and fantasy don't mix

Klosterman gets all postmodern and discusses fantasy football as simulacrum.

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Your Pocket Guide to PoMo's History

"Before all the hooha about postmodernism, there was something called modernism. What was all that about?"

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The Snowball Effect

"in a networked world, when you consume something, your consumption has an externality: I generally know how much satisfaction you got."

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Suicide Bombs as Viral Media

"What we're witnessing is viral contagion - the beginnings of what some hope will spawn an epidemic of suicide attacks."

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Google's War on Hierarchy, and the Death of Hierarchical Folders

"Hierarchical Folders have dominated info organization since they first appeared over 40 years ago. But in industry after industry, a strange thing is happening: hierarchy is under severe attack, and even dying out."

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Piracy is Good? Part Two: The New Laws of Television

"The forces that cry "Piracy!" today will be congratulating themselves on their "sound business practices" tomorrow. There's money to be made; there is a viable economic model."

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What is The Message?

"If you control what is acceptable to say, to print, to show, you control the ability of people to form opinion, especially dissenting opinion."

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The Horseless Carriage...

Plasticbag.org: "The weblog becomes and extension of yourself. A suit you wear, if you will. It's like you're controlling a whole prosthetic version of yourself."

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McLuhanisms

Great quotes of McLuhan

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The Medium is Having A Massage

Ahhh . . . postmodern McLuhan humor at it's best . . . almost as good as the old postmodern semicolon joke . . .

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Remix Aesthetic in Moulin Rouge and Kill Bill

A fairly interseting essay which speaks to the postmodern remix aesthetic in Moulin Rouge and Kill Bill

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The Devaluation of Information

From Terry Heaton's TV News in a Postmodern World. Discusses the effects the internet has on the value of information.