The Banana Peel Project

Justice cannot be obtained under any Law–action in accord with spontaneous nature, action which is just, cannot be defined by dogma.  The crimes advocated in these broadsheets cannot be committed against self or other but only against the mordant crystallization of Ideas into structures of poisonous Thrones & Dominations.
 Hakim Bey, T.A.Z.

alternate title: “How to use statistics for good instead of evil”
So here’s a little experiment.  Statistics are a tool of governmentality, a broad and messy tactic for imposing order on a chaotic world.  But if technologies are inherently neutral, if tools and techniques and arts are ambiguous actors on the social stage, then can’t they […]

Politics is the continuation of war by other means.
-Michel Foucault
What is politics if not strategy?  In politics, we work with what is available in order to achieve what is possible.  But resources are not unlimited.  Nor is everything possible.  So how do we decide what we can accomplish given the limits defined by history, by […]