The Omniopticon
I took a class a couple of years ago at Concordia as an adult—Concordia University in Montreal being my alma matter as I attended their Communication Studies program ending in 2001. The class talked a lot about Michel Foucault’s panoticon model, based on Jeremy Bentham’s a
August 22, 2020
Business & Tech: A Force for Good?
I just wanted to clarify a line of thought this blog sometimes takes. I was well schooled, which I appreciate, at places like Saint George’s School of Montréal, where we read and critiqued books like George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World—Huxley bec
December 09, 2019
It’s a Fediverse Planet
I have been enlightened to some of the technical means which could retake the internet back to its idealist phase. These fall under the rubric of the Fediverse and importantly the W3C Recommendation called ActivityPub. There is a lot to go over to understand what could be the implicat
January 16, 2019
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