Games Without Frontiers
War has changed in network society. Of course, we are familiar with the asymmetrical networked warfare taking place in Iraq and Afghanistan. Then there's the emerging cyberwar, which recently ratcheted...
View ArticleFor the Record
Nothing irks me more than the idiots* who say that nobody saw the crash coming. I blogged about it years before it happened. It was plain as day. The real estate market was a bubble. Nothing...
View ArticleFear of Flying
Iceland's Eyjafjallajoekull volcano hasn't given up disrupting north Atlantic air travel this summer, but what if it's the harbinger of something bigger?The global city is predicated on face to face...
View ArticleWhy Did Actor-Network Theory Run out of Steam?
Lately, I've been consumed by analyzing the biggest story of the decade: financialization and the ensuing economic crisis which now seems likely to be with us for a decade. In thinking about the...
View ArticleOn Black Swans and Realism
A couple of weeks back the Planet Money podcast hosted Nassim Taleb, author of the Black Swan. Click here for the interview. I have not read Taleb's book, although I am likely to now, but I am baffled...
View ArticleOn Ireland, Briefly
Today's news from Ireland is grim. As my readers know, I have been teaching in Ireland for some years.I've expected this day since I first set foot there in 2005.Faced by the impending bankruptcy of...
View ArticleIvory Towers of Debt
Javier Arbona has a new piece up called "The Sorrows of Finance Capital," in which he asks how it is that a university system in crisis can afford to build snazzy new buildings with vertiginously high...
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Regarding the Euro
The biggest story of the last two decades has not been the opening up of China, rather it's been the creation of the Eurozone.First off, take the size of the combined economy of the Eurozone. In terms...
View ArticleEconomic Crisis, Cycles, and Measures to Fix It
Asian and European markets fell overnight, priming Wall Street for a drop that will put it in bear market territory. Meanwhile, a double dip recession in the US is increasingly likely, China is finally...
View ArticleUneven Growth Show @ MoMA
It's my absolute delight to finally be able to announce that the Network Architecture Lab will be collaborating with MAPOffice in the 2014 "Uneven Growth" exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern...
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