gender: BG = anti-X or new millenial messiah?


Subject: gender: BG = anti-X or new millenial messiah?
From: Susan Verhoef (verhoes@tcgs.co.travis.tx.us)
Date: Thu Sep 16 1999 - 14:48:12 CDT


what do we think of one single form of (logical) organization? Whose
logic (whose interests) dominate?

> Microsoft is only apparently
> about products. In reality, it's about a certain procedure, a certain
> form of cybernetic organization that, once installed, patterns
> digital information flows across the nervous systems of all the key
> institutions of contemporary life. Microsoft, then, as not so much a
> "global brain" but as a downloadable, ready to install, virtual
> memory: a cyber-Panopticon plugged into the flesh circuits of human
> subjectivity.
 

from review/critique:

CTHEORY THEORY, TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE VOL 22, NO 3
Article 73 99/09/15 Editors: Arthur and Marilouise Kroker
_____________________________________________________________________
Digital Ideology: e-theory (1)
=============================
~Arthur and Marilouise Kroker~

ON:
Bill Gates, _Business @The Speed of Thought: Using a Digital Nervous
System_, New York: Warner Books, 1999.

ctheory is here: http://www.ctheory.com/
...but I couldn't find this article there--I got it through email
subscription--if anyone's interested in seeing it in its entirety lemme
know and I'll fwd it.
SV



This archive was generated by hypermail 2a24 : Thu Sep 16 1999 - 23:04:43 CDT