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Dark matters

Crime, technology and society by Angus Bancroft
 
Dark matters

Self hosting solutions

Describe the problem. Follow the instructions, jeez. Learn a totally new syntax to describe the problem again. Okay, don’t follow those instructions, follow these. No, you have to do this totally different thing first. Yeah, it doesn’t work automatically. You have to change it from ‘not working mode’ to ‘working …

The contradiction at the heart of higher education: prepare for disappointment

We want to be useful to society. But any attempt to show that or to have it guide us either destroys what we are, or turns us into technical servants or mouthpieces of other peoples’ ends. If you want to see how that turns out, enjoy listening to Christian Rock. …

Radicalisation or self discovery? Desire in a turbulent world

There has been a lot of recent conversation about radicalisation through different forms. Mumsnet has been blamed for radicalising its participants. There is an implied theory of change here. It is that radicalisation works something like environmental exposure. Radicalisation is like pollution in the info sphere. Exposure to small doses …

Institutions have duties beyond themselves and the cultural moment

… Otherwise they would not actually be institutions at all. That is basically what an institution is, as opposed to a temporary association or social movement. I was trying to think through some irritation at the tendency of leaderships to just make changes that are very in the moment and …

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