As I mentioned before, I spent most of the past week in England at a wonderful workshop on race and racism in the current conjuncture. And so all this week’s photos come from that green and pleasant land. Bridges with numbers! Tightly packed gravestones! Brave immigrants! And more surveillance cameras than you can shake a […]
. . . of Surveillance of the University of Surveillance of the . . .
Dipping back into the archive once more, this time to the “Media in Transition 8” conference held at MIT in 2013. I began this talk with a “joke” intro that (shamelessly) I have used more than once. Partly, because it almost always gets a good laugh. But mostly because, in this case, it was definitely […]
A long overdue separation [Rerun Sunday]
I got an email from the nice folks at Mitsubishi Motors today about “Important Windshield Wiper Tips.” I appreciate that Mitsubishi wants to keep me safe on the roads. Honest, I do. Though I’m not sure that they need to send me a special email full of tips to make this happen . . . […]
Where do you want to live? [Rerun Sunday]
Like so many interesting things in life (or at least on Facebook), this began by chance. Actually, to be honest, I’m not sure exactly when it began. Maybe it was when I first created a “check-in” entry for a place that did not yet have one. Maybe it was when I first noticed a check-in […]
Fun with surveillance [Rerun Sunday]
Yesterday, my car was involved in an accident. Sort of. It was parked on the street in front of the house at the front end of a series of three vehicles. Someone managed to drive their car into the back rear corner of the truck at the back end of that line. They did a […]