“NPR reported this morning on a traffic jam in California caused by an algorithmic glitch “accidentally summon[ing] 1,200 people to jury duty on the same morning”. An excellent reminder of the tendency of algorithmic dysfunction to manifest as physical dysfunction, and (at a relatively small scale) of the potentially disproportionate impact of glitches when they are translated from dataspace into an infrastructural system. The glitch may be as simple as having accidentally swapped the 0 indicating “do not come in” for the 1 indicating “come in”, but the resulting jam is rendered in aluminum autobodies and on asphalt corridors where it is much more difficult to clear than it was to create.”

— glitch jam – mammoth // building nothing out of something (via new-aesthetic)

(via new-aesthetic)

•  4 June 2012  •  127 notes

jahsonic:

Sous les pavés, la plage! (“Beneath the paving stones - the beach!”) is an anonymous May 68 graffiti, Paris 1968

•  4 June 2012  •  45 notes

•  1 June 2012

Once the #OWS  becomes a ‘movement’ it will instantly stop. Only if it can disguise itself as scattered, decentralized cells will it survive. Most likely without even knowing so. It is in it’s opposition to claim any rights that the potential lies. The act of occupying what is already yours, thus highlighting the most basic and therefor overlooked disparity, is a permanent state, not of resistance, but of practical utopian action by anticipating imagined futures. The intentional lack of centrality of any decision-makers makes it all the more resilient. This change in strategy makes the change itself invisible, even to the moving actors. Forced to move blindly they are able to move everywhere.

This is tectonic culture.

•  22 May 2012  •  1 note

Untitled, Cairo, 2008 by Simon Vahala on Flickr.

(Source: hiromitsu, via resite-festival)

•  20 May 2012  •  431 notes