The Unholy Trinity of Bombs

After writing recently on interactive waste disposal, I am now in the process of re-reading Paul Virilio's The Information Bomb, and wanted to take a moment to collect a bunch of floating ideas into one semi-coherent, in-progress thought framework. I haven't followed Virilio here dogmatically, instead incorporating some ideas from Critical Art Ensemble, McKenzie Wark, and my own work.

	Nuclear Bomb	Information Bomb	Genetic Bomb
Unit	Atom	Meme	Gene
Detonation	Hiroshima (1945)	9/11 (2001)	?
Detonator	Conventional chemical explosive	Plane hitting WTC and exploding	?
Foundation	Manhattan Project	ARPANET	Human Genome Project
Significant Milestone	Trinity Site (1945)	Persian Gulf War (1990-91)	Dolly the Sheep (1996)
Property Form	Nuclear Energy	Data Archives/ Telesthesia	Patentable Flesh Products
Pollution	Radioactivity	Interactivity	Proactivity
Accident	Chernobyl (1986)	Black Monday (1987)	?
Policy	Deterrence	Temporal Breaks (eg. NYSE circuit breakers, network television tape delay)	?
Space	Local	Global	Diasporal

Date: April 6, 02007
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sportsBabel

sportsBabel examines the aesthetics, politics and poetics of sport and physical culture, weaving between materiality, information, intuition and intellect. The notes posted here should be understood as emerging from an ongoing program of research-creation.

Threads of inquiry include: the security-entertainment complex and the militarization of sport; mediated sport as a spectrum of interactive possibility; the experiential qualities of postmodern sporting spaces; the cyborg body athletic manifest as mobile social subject; and the potential politics of a sporting multitude.

You are currently browsing the sportsBabel weblog archives for April, 2007. sportsBabel is produced by Sean Smith, a writer and artist from Toronto and a doctoral student at the European Graduate School of Media and Communications in Switzerland. Also a lecturer at various universities in Canada (curriculum vitae), his dissertation is titled "On Performing the University of Disaster."

department of biological flow

The Department of Biological Flow is a project of research-creation by Sean Smith and Barbara Fornssler exploring the concept of the moving human body as it is integrated with broader information networks of signal and noise.

The reference is from George Lucas' epic 1971 movie, THX 1138, in which a state-controlled intensification of communication processes manages every facet of daily life in a futuristic society, regulating the flux of all human subjects in work, leisure and love.

Though the Department exists in homage to Lucas’ vision, our consideration of biological flow seeks to reinvigorate the agency of the human subject in its negotiations with economic and political structures both material and immaterial.

www.departmentofbiologicalflow.net

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