Looking for the Real Mark Zuckerberg

Network error: amoral intelligence, arrogance, insolence and unchivalric behavior...

Natalie Portman: Spreading Her Wings

The only way to be perfect, is to allow chaos and madness into your life. -Darren Aronofsky

“The biggest challenge for all actors,” says Portman, “is that you see yourself on a screen outside of your body and have to reenter your body to look at the world through your own eyes instead of at yourself. . . .

Jorie Graham notes that at Harvard Natalie went under her real name, Hershlag, and “the class soon forgot what she was and got to know who she was. She was determined not to let her life run on fame, and not to lose perspective on what life’s journey is for. . . . She was wise enough not to trust the virtual over the actual.”

“When people get older and they’re not good on the inside, it starts to show.

mind game black swan - "I'm not perfect"

desire, passion and living life

to achieve and meet expectations

Learning to be wrong, make mistakes, do the wrong things

Perfection is not just control, it's also letting go.

It's better to be wrong than perfect.

Horror and beauty

The Black Swan, a glorious rhapsody

Real and imagined afflictions

Natalie Portman

15 actors who defined cinema in 2010

Natalie Portman se hace mayor

Ballet on crack

Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan

White/Black swan

Cutthroat competition

Peru - Wikileaks

Los estadounidenses reconocen que lo sabían todo:

La corrupción plagó las instituciones del gobierno peruano, los servicios de seguridad, militares, policiales y judiciales. El ez jefe de inteligencia de Fujimori, Vladimiro Montesinos, dio apoyo a altos mandos del Ejército y otros oficiales de las Fuerzas Armadas que formaban parte de una red de protección de narcotraficantes, mientras que estos paralelamente respaldaban a funcionarios de los Estados Unidos que combatían a otros narcotraficantes.

Peru - w

Las instituciones militares peruanas son problemáticas que, por decirlo de alguna manera, ganaron una guerra pero perdieron la paz.

Peru -

Las instituciones militares peruanas son problemáticas que, por decirlo de alguna manera, ganaron una guerra pero perdieron la paz.

Julian Assange, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo And The Swedish Approach To Sex Crimes

What WikiLeaks Revealed to the World in 2010

What WikiLeaks exposed to the world: the breadth of the corruption, deceit, brutality and criminality on the part of the world's most powerful factions.

As revealing as the disclosures themselves are, the reactions to them have been equally revealing. The vast bulk of the outrage has been devoted not to the crimes that have been exposed but rather to those who exposed them: WikiLeaks and (allegedly) Bradley Manning. A consensus quickly emerged in the political and media class that they are Evil Villains who must be severely punished, while those responsible for the acts they revealed are guilty of nothing. That reaction has not been weakened at all even by the Pentagon's own admission that, in stark contrast to its own actions, there is no evidence -- zero -- that any of WikiLeaks' actions has caused even a single death. Meanwhile, the American establishment media -- even in the face of all these revelations -- continues to insist on the contradictory, Orwellian platitudes that (a) there is Nothing New^TM in anything disclosed by WikiLeaks and (b) WikiLeaks has done Grave Harm to American National Security^TM through its disclosures.

Nunca fue tan hermosa la basura

'Verano', de Coetzee, libro del año de Babelia

Wikileaks y la informacion en la Red

Cinco dinosaurios ante un hacker

El rol de lo digital es básico en esta historia.

"En el fondo nada de lo que ha sucedido es tan nuevo, se ha obtenido una información a través de una fuente, se ha valorado y trabajado, y se le ha colocado en un soporte".

"Lo que ocurre esta vez es que convive Wikileaks con los dinosaurios".

Literature dionysiac play of language

cyborgs and posthumans

verbal echoes & allusions

dissemination of meaning

dissemination & contamination

Derrida's Dissemination

To answer questions in principle or in general is impossible

interruption of totality

scattering of semen & seeds

dispersal of semantic meaning

the deviance of meaning

fortuitous resemblance

the lack & the surplus

the play of meaning

equivocal meaning

impossible to stop dissemination

dispersal of meaning

all sorts of connotations

fertile dispersal of meaning

dissipation

loss of meaning

the old meaning is lost

new context/new meaning

the process of adquiring meaning is not cumulative

disseminating free play of language

illegitimate authoritative source

negative prohibition

texts resonate

chain of significations

the play of language

corridors of meaning

links work by themselves

every text differs from itself

derailing a chain of meaning

laying down a meaning is at all times an arbitrary and provisional act

desire of power and control

putting in doubt the right to posit limits

to disclose the contingency of meaning

the constructive nature of meaning

the possibility for deconstruction

associative power

multiple cohesions not always seem logical

grammatical connections

anagrammatical games

pluralization of references & voices

words which resonate through a text

the absence of the word

lateral associations

medicine, painting, politics, farming

law, sexuality, festivity

the contingency of sense

connections, correlations, & contexts

the interminable motion of painting

plurivocity

writing weaves several texts

pulling a few strings

dissemination & polysemy

moments of polysemy

multiplicities within the horizon of meaning

deciphering

no absolute rift

(no) senseless deviation

enumeration

the representative surface

framed horizon

the meaningfulness of language

accumulation of meaning

transformations of meaning

a certain squaring of the text

discursive polysemy & textual dissemination

not hermeneutic deciphering

the (no) decoding of truth

there is no thematic unity

textual instances

there is no total message located in some imaginary order

no intentionality

my painting does not represent any truth

the heterogeneity of writing is writing itself

Dissemination

Every reading of a text enables new meanings. Every reading places a text into a new context. That context is open; it never absolutely determines one interpretation, nor a clearly demarcated complex of interpretations.

Julian Assange furore deepens as new details emerge of sex crime allegations

Berkeley City Council tables Bradley Manning 'Hero Resolution"

Naomi Wolf vs. Jaclyn Friedman: Feminists Debate the Sexual Allegations Against Julian Assange

Ralph Nader - Wikimania and the First Amendment

"Information is the currency of democracy" -Jefferson.

Wikileaks and newspapers like The New Yorks Times, El Pais, Le Monde, and London's Guardian are publishers protected by the First Amendment.

If the Attorney General goes after Wikileaks too broadly using the notorious Espionage Act of 1917 and other vague laws, how is he going to deal with The New York Times and other mass media that reported the disclosures?

Harvard Law Professor Jack Goldsmith, who was head of the Office of Legal Counsel in George W. Bush's Justice Department wrote:

"In Obama's Wars, Bob Woodward, with the obvious assistance of many top Obama administration officials, disclosed many details about top secret programs, code names, documents, meetings, and the like. I have a hard time squaring the anger the government is directing towards Wikileaks with its top officials openly violating classification rules and opportunistically revealing without authorization top secret information."

Wikileaks R Us

We can't put the Internet genie back

in the bottle.

This summer I was in a movie line behind two guys, and one said: "I hate Facebook. I wish it had never been invented. But I can't live without it." Welcome to the WikiLeaks problem, which was born along with the Internet itself. What we can't live without may kill us.

DANIEL HENNINGER, WSJ, 12/2/2010

Assange - Sex by surprise

In a story worthy of a bestseller by Stieg Larsson, with its mix of state secrets, sex, and self-righteous computer geeks, it could come to pass that the man at the helm of WikiLeaks, who could not be pinned down by the U.S. Espionage Act, is vulnerable to a Swedish law against “sex by surprise.”

Defense Secretary Robert Gates played down their impact. “Is this embarrassing? Yes. Is it awkward? Yes,” he told reporters. “Consequences for U.S. foreign policy? I think fairly modest.” Gates’s sanguine attitude aside, there is no question that American diplomacy, which the Obama administration had been trying to shore up, has been damaged.

The Secret in her Eyes - treatment of the memory of trauma

built around the notoriously repressive state violence of the 1970s. But instead of treating this highly charged theme in a way that might reflect its real legacy—three decades of immunity for the perpetrators and the continued atomization of the populace and its political agency—the film climaxes with an unrealistic fantasy-fulfillment revenge against a single sadistic agent of that earlier violence. The seeming arbitrariness of this ending prompts a question: Why apply a nullifying finish to a film centered on a graphic account of such an important episode in the nation’s history—the military junta’s “Dirty War”—one that continues to resound in the national political discourse some thirty years later with the recent prosecutions of agents of state violence during the dictatorship?

The film employs as spectacle the universally acknowledged brutality of the most recent Argentine military dictatorship—part of the film depicts the predictatorship period of Isabel Perón’s brief government and the viciousness of its paramilitary apparatus, the continuity of which is acknowledged to extend beyond the subsequent coup d’état—while declining to explore in a productive way the currently pressing question of the memory of the dictatorship and its crimes.

Internet - biblioteca universal

"En este ocaso somos aun antorchas, luz que sobresale en el horizonte". Umberto Eco. El nombre de la rosa.

De 18 euros que podría valer un CD, 10,5 se lo lleva la discográfica, 3,8 la tienda, el artista/cantante 1,2 y el gobierno 2,5 en impuestos.. ¿Quien le está robando al artista? David Bravo.

Time Magazine

When the criminals cannot be punished because they own the government...

V for Vendetta, A for Assange

V For Vendetta, the Guy Fawkes imagery and V logo is becoming a symbol for the 21st century.

It was as if Julian Fellowes had been drafted in to finish a script begun by Stieg Larsson.

Since the publication of the WikiLeaks US embassy cables, the world has changed in a number of interesting ways

Millions of people around the world have glimpsed truths about their rulers and governments that had previously been hidden, or merely suspected.

The cables have revealed wrongdoing, war crimes, corruption, hypocrisy, greed, espionage, double-dealing and the cynical exercise of power on a wondrous scale.

Wiki-fatigue. The revelations have flowed at such a rate that it may be months, or even years, before the full impact of what has been disclosed can be fully absorbed. It is all too easy to feel defeated by the sheer scale of the blurred torrent of information unleashed on the world.

Umberto Eco: Embassies have morphed into espionage centres

the hypocrisy governing relations between the state, the citizenry and the press

Nowadays, it’s the embassies that are asking the press for the inside story.

Wikileaks signals a fundamental geopolitical shift.

The memes of transparency and the free flow of information, ideals that underpin the net, are finally beginning to have concrete political consequences.

Wikileaks have the potential to destabilize the West’s narrative and cultural hegemony.

France has already passed an Internet censorship law, and now there is talk that the UN is working to create a similar initiative on a global scale. In the weeks and months to come, we can expect a fight to the finish between the culture of the internet and the ancien régime. It is too early to know for certain who will come out the victor.