sábado, 04 de setembro de 2004

New issue of NeoFiles. David Pescovitz: Our favorite cyberdelic tour guide RU Sirius just posted his latest issue of the NeoFiles. Inside, RU talks with privacy hactivist John Gilmore, democratic transhumanist James Hughes, and performance philosopher Antero Alli. "In issue #9, the discourse about transhumanism continues, but we also continue to cover other terrains. I never tire of pointing out that technique shares roots with technology. Thus, we continue to explore methods for self-awareness (which as often as not) — (are) techniques for ecstasy. Finally, any transformation worth its gene pool will likely find itself facing off against the constraints of unreasonable authority" — RU Sirius. On demands for identity and restrictions on travel and so forth since 9/11..... “Some MIT students actually figured this out. If how they treat you at an airport depends on who you identify yourself to be, then a terrorist cell can test to see whether they are treating someone as a suspicious person or not. If you're part of a terrorist cell and you're trying to do some mayhem, you send all the members of your cell through airports on totally innocent missions looking to see who gets singled out. So you send all your guys through airports just flying to see their relatives and you see which ones get searched all the time. Those guys don't go on the mission, right? The guys who never get searched go on the mission. The way that you can defeat that is with randomness. So people will get searched at random not because of who they are but because their number came up. Some MIT students actually figured this out.” in Thorn In Authority's Side John Gilmore in conversation with RU Sirius, Will Block, and Ann Harrison. Link [Boing Boing] 11:26:35 PM    comment []

Silver City, a partisan film by John Sayles From John Sayles, one of the essential, iconoclastic voices of American independent cinema, comes "Silver City," a film that is equal parts scathing political lampoon and sun-stunned neo-noir detective story. Set against the backdrop of a mythic "New West," "Silver City" follows grammatically-challenged, "user-friendly" candidate Dicky Pilager (Cooper), scapegrace scion of Colorado's venerable Senator Jud Pilager (Murphy), during his gubernatorial campaign. When Pilager finds that he's reeled in a corpse during the taping of an environmental political ad, his ferocious campaign manager, Chuck Raven (Dreyfuss), hires former idealistic journalist turned rumpled private detective Danny O'Brien (Huston) to investigate potential links between the corpse and the Pilager family's enemies. In the tradition of the great films noir, Danny[base ']s investigation pulls him deeper and deeper into a complex web of influence and corruption, involving high stakes lobbyists, media conglomerates, environmental plunderers, and undocumented migrant workers. With pitch-perfect dialogue, unerring sense-of-place, and a slashing satiric strain, "Silver City" offers John Sayles's timely and toxic look at the state of the union on the eve of the 2004 Presidential election. Silver City ScreenWriter: John Sayles Director: John Sayles With: Chris Cooper, Richard Dreyfuss, Billy Zane, Danny Huston, Daryl Hannah Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller Company: Newmarket Films Release Date: 17 - 9 - 2004 Rating: N/A Official WebSite: Visit Website This newsread: thanks to IMDb 10:37:41 PM  Google It!  comment []

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