❝When any new form comes into the foreground of things, we naturally look at it through the old stereos. We can’t help that. This is normal, and we’re still trying to see how will our previous forms of political and educational patterns persist under television. We’re just trying to fit the old things into the new form, instad of asking what is the new form going to do to all the assumptions we had before.❞
-Marshall McLuhan - on new media technologies
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Via NYTimes.com: So much for the free-wheeling, libertarian reputation of Twitter. The company announced Thursday that it could start censoring certain content in certain countries, a sort of micro-censorship widget that would pop up up in a grey box on the Twitter feed.
“Tweet withheld,” it would read “This tweet from @username has been withheld in: Country.”
Matías Aguayo ft. Lerato “Pata Pata” This collaboration of Aguayo with the London based South African DJ Lerato Khathi, is a heavy stripped drums and voice soundsystem dance track, making tribute to the similarities of the modern South African House rhythms, and the actual South American approach to techno…
Johnny Otis recounts a career as band leader and cultural rebel. Musical and cultural history recounted by a man who deserves our respect and admiration. Johnny Otis was a founder of Rhythm & Blues.
❝The U.S. really is a society that simply no longer believes in due process: once the defining feature of American freedom that is now scorned as some sort of fringe, radical, academic doctrine. That is not hyperbole. Supporters of both political parties endorse, or at least tolerate, all manner of government punishment without so much as the pretense of a trial, based solely on government accusation: imprisonment for life, renditions to other countries, even assassinations of their fellow citizens. Simply uttering the word “Terrorist”, without proving it, is sufficient. And now here is Megaupload being completely destroyed — its website shuttered, its assets seized, ongoing business rendered impossible — based solely on the unproven accusation of piracy.❞
-Glenn Greenwald, Lessons of the Megaupload seizure (via absurdlakefront)
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