Following on from Thijs’s Show and Tell and Rik’s post on the really flipping cool work of Evoke (god, if I ever make it to teaching at university, my course is definitely going to be called Resilience Logistics 101, or perhaps just Thinking and Resilience or a version of this……!) I wanted to draw your attention to another link that I am pretty astounded by.
I was heartened weeks ago to read that the Encyclopedia Brittanica has more errors than Wikipedia. (Oddly, when I tried to find the said article I could only come up with a slightly more modest one….)
Naturally I allow myself to widely extrapolate on this fact to make sweeping statements about egalitarianism, collectivity, dispersed knowledges and so on and so forth…..
But I have just been even more delighted to discover another beacon of wiki resistance and communal intelligence called WikiLeaks which publishes government leaks and other sensitive information anonymously.
Wow?!
Diana Soto De Jesús
Rubato
Dea
Rik Fifis
Yeah a friend of mine sometimes forwards a document from wikileaks. I find it completely engrossing but at the same time I wonder whether it feeds more into paranoia culture or political nihilism. I’m not sure, but it all looks very convincing and engagé though..
How nice would it be if there was someone who made up all these reports? Seriously I would like that better than when it was real. Which of the two it is, of course, we don’t know.
At first that seemed like a very cynical idea to me. And then I thought about it some more, and it actually sounds kind of cool… a bit like a schizophrenic, highly paranoid, ghost writing set of the Yes Men? What this would do would be to respond to Thijs’s concerns – that this may feed into social paranoia and nihilism – by doing precisely that: a dispersed, untraceable, affective network disruption, yah?