Paul Mison’s random stuff that doesn’t go elsewhere. Is it microblogging, or microactivity? (Previously known as ‘tumblr is my sock drawer’, for reasons that are somewhat unclear.)Tumblr (3.0; @blech)http://notes.husk.org/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1yu88AIqK1qz4vjro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://ensemble.va.com.au/Treister/HEXEN2/TAROT_COL/SwordQueen_Drones.html">Queen of Swords: Drones</a>, from the <a href="http://ensemble.va.com.au/Treister/HEXEN2/HEXEN_2.html">Hexen 2.0</a> <a href="http://ensemble.va.com.au/Treister/HEXEN2/TAROT_COL/HEXEN_2_TAROT.html">Tarot deck</a> by <a href="http://ensemble.va.com.au/Treister/info/bio.html">Suzanne Treister</a><strong>:</strong></p> <blockquote>HEXEN 2.0 looks into histories of scientific research behind government programmes of mass control, investigating parallel histories of countercultural and grass roots movements. HEXEN 2.0 charts, within a framework of post-WWII U.S. governmental and military imperatives, the coming together of scientific and social sciences through the development of cybernetics, the history of the internet, the rise of Web 2.0 and increased intelligence gathering, and implications for the future of new systems of societal manipulation towards a control society.</blockquote> <p>Hexen 2.0 is on <a href="http://ensemble.va.com.au/Treister/HEXEN2/Installations/ScienceMuseum.html">show at the Science Museum</a>, London, until 1 May 2012. (Thanks, <a href="http://kevan.org/">Kevan</a>.)</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/20476943932http://notes.husk.org/post/20476943932Wed, 04 Apr 2012 19:33:04 +0100imagedronesarttarotqueen of swordsillustrationscience museumlondonexhibitionhexen 2.0