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All posts filed under “Philosophy of control”
Is design political?
Over at Core77, the Design Council’s Jennie Winhall has written a thought-provoking essay, “Is design political?”, looking at the links between design and politics, and how design can be used to shape behaviour for political ends:
BBC: Safe, secure and kitsch
Image from Sweet Dreams Security website From the BBC, an interesting story looking at the work of Matthias Megyeri’s Sweet Dreams Security: “A German artist is trying to change the way people think about security, by replacing barbed wire with heart-shaped metal, and pointed railings […]
Podcast of London Copyfighters’ Brunch
The guys at Meme Therapy – incubating the world’s premature ideas have produced a great podcast of last Sunday’s fascinating London Copyfighters event, with interviews, discussion and some of the speeches from Speakers’ Corner, including my own rather spur-of-the-moment rant (about 25 minutes in) in […]
Telegraph – Safety fear swats store’s Mosquito
From today’s Daily Telegraph: ‘Safety fear swats store’s Mosquito’. “A supermarket has been ordered to switch off a device aimed at combating anti-social behaviour because of concerns about human rights and health and safety…
Making criminals
An interesting quote for a Friday afternoon, from Ayn Rand’s 1957 Atlas Shrugged:
An astounding quote on the Mosquito
Following the update on the Mosquito story, i.e. that it is to be switched off at a shop in Newport after questions were raised about human rights issues, the BBC story ‘Anti-gang noise box switched off’ carries an astounding quote from Compound Security, the manufacturers:
Philips: You MUST watch these adverts
Via Jack Yan’s excellent Persuader Blog, news of a patent application filed by Philips which would prevent television viewers either changing channel during commercial breaks, or fast-forwarding through the adverts when watching recorded shows.
‘Researchers develop prototype system to thwart unwanted video and still photography’
Via Boing Boing, ‘Researchers develop prototype system to thwart unwanted video and still photography’, news from Georgia Tech of a system that scans and finds the CCDs of digital imaging equipment and shines bright light (or a laser) into them in order to flood them […]