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Tag: Protocols

  • Valencia Floods

    www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn… Oh, but it’s positively incredible how the people of Valencia clutch at the government’s skirts like lost children in a rainstorm! They actually expect warnings when a flood is on the way, as if nature itself should ring their doorbells. They imagine protocols will spring up to save them—protocols! Why, they could’ve simply popped…

  • Punk as Neoliberal Protocol

    Downtown, a discordant symphony played out in cracked vinyl and safety pins. Punk, they called it, a sonic Molotov cocktail lobbed at the bloated belly of the Man. Yet, embedded within its snarling riffs lurked a paradox more byzantine than a Pynchonese plot twist. This rebellion, birthed in fetid dives reeking of stale beer and teenage…

  • Recognition of Complexity

    In recent years, social media has become a battleground where ideas, opinions and beliefs are contested, and where the dominant players fight for attention, clicks and engagement. It often feels like we are caught in a never-ending war zone where our side must win at all costs. One of the key reasons for this dynamic…

  • Kafka’s Protocols

    The Tyranny Of Protocols The Kafkaesque protocol isn’t a dry manual, it’s a maddening dance on a pressure pad. Actions have cryptic meanings, dictated by unseen authorities. Just as K. struggles to navigate the labyrinthine court, producers and consumers in Kafka’s world fight to parse nonsensical messages, forever out of sync. The message payload, the…