Caught spying on Americans, the Bush administration’s reaction is to accuse the New York Times of blowing its cover. Not only are we subject to a vast domestic surveillance program of unprecedented proportions, we are supposed to not know about it. Read more here.
Month: December 2005
Data Mining in the EU
As a follow up to the entry about the NSAA here’s an item from Alternet: Annalee Newitz uncovers the EU’s own plans for data mining.
Back to Utopia?
Through Bruce Sterling’s Beyond the Beyond, I found this link to an article on the continued importance of Utopian thinking today. But, of course, what is the multitude if not a Utopian idea?
On a related note, Reinhold Martin’s Critical of What? Towards a Utopian Realism is a good read by one of the best thinkers in architecture today. Martin bursts the bubble of post-criticism prior to outlining his thoughts on the emergence of a “utopian realism.”