Posts by Neil Morrison
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Another hirsute celebration:
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re the French Film Festival, The Age of Reason is a two-gun film. You might want the second if the first jams because you definitely won't want to live through it.
Try hard Amélie.
There's some other very good films though.
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not sure what the story is with comps,.
I'll probably try and see Outside the Law since I liked Indigènes.
and Gondry's The Thorn in the Heart
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Muse: Reel Life: Pliéing Turkey, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
going to any of the French Film Festival films?
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Haneke did it much better:
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Some more on social networking and activism in Egypt.
And a bit about the surprising complexity of common knowledge, skip to page three to miss the maths.
It's possible to give someone information by telling them something they all ready know.
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It's very interesting, in mulling over the influence of social networking on what's happening in Egypt - Theory of Mind - mirror neurons - Assange came to mind and it struck me that he was someone who might have a theory of mind problem.
But I was a bit reluctant to go there.
Brief thoughts - I support the information distribution via social networking in Egypt but have major problems with what Assange is doing. That may be because at some level I get that Assange does not quite get how social interaction works
So freedom on the one hand and restriction on the other - contradictory but maybe it makes sense in terms of how as social creatures we have to work.
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Hard News: "Orderly transition" in #Egypt, in reply to Russell Brown,
the spooky magic of social networking
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Hard News: "Orderly transition" in #Egypt, in reply to Russell Brown,
From that article:
“The role of the Internet was critical at the beginning,” Gharbeia says. “On the 25th, the movements of the protesting groups were arranged in real time through Twitter. Everyone knew were everyone else was walking and we could advise on the locations of blockades and skirmishes with police.
It's not just knowing where people were but the confidence of knowing that other people also knew. That wouldn't happen so easily with traditional media, if it happened at all.
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Social media can enable people to organise and perhaps if that method was not availble then exactly the same type of organisation would occur anyway by other means.
But there's another aspect to information which is not necssarily about the information itself but who knows the inormation and who knows who knows the information etc.
Take the Prisoners' Dilemma for example. What is critical is not knowing if the other person knows.
I haven't really thought this out but it's possible that social media can qualitatively change group dynamics by influencing what people understand of what other people know.