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Previously, on Quiet Babylon.
October 2007-October 2008 this was a site about making video games. November 2008-June 2009 it was adrift punditry. In July 2009 I figured out what this site was for. I leave some early posts up as a nod to posterity.
February 2013
- The Corporation Who Would be King
animals, borders, plants, roads, ruins, spirits
January 2013
- Mark Zuckerberg’s Hoodie
cameras, cities, dissidents, police, spies
October 2012
- On the Leakiness of Surveillance Culture, the Corporate Gaze, and What That Has To Do With the New Aesthetic
cameras, drones, gizmos, police, robots, spies, toys
June 2012
- Murmuration of Malware — An Endless Sea of Compromised Drones
cameras, drones, police, spies
March 2012
- He’s not Houseless; He’s Technomadic
artifacts, cities, cyborgs, drones, gizmos
December 2011
- The Freelance Panoptiswarm
cameras, dissidents, drones, police, spies - The Perils of Personality
robots, spirits - The Complicated Ethics of the Unborn
animals, drones, robots, spirits
November 2011
- The State of the Occupied Panoptiswarm
archivists, dissidents, drones, soldiers - Hacking with Pictures II
cameras, gizmos, thieves
August 2011
- The Care and Beating of Activists
dissidents, gizmos, spies
July 2011
- Our Once Familiar Future
architects, astronauts - Be as Clumsy as a Puppy
robots
June 2011
- Computation, All the Way Down
gizmos - Give my Robot a Losing Personality
robots - The Descent of Cribs
architects, cyborgs, gizmos - Swapping Magic
cameras, pirates, toys - Forever, For Now
architects, artifacts, gizmos, robots
May 2011
- Border Town — Call for Applications
architects, borders, cyborgs
April 2011
- Consenting to Hallucinate
architects, cameras, cities, dissidents, drones, gizmos, thieves, toys - The Mark of Freedom
cyborgs, dissidents, gizmos, spies - La Mancha Unlocked
games, gizmos, prophets - The Roommate & The Roommate
architects, borders - Pyrrhic
spirits - No User Serviceable Parts Inside
cities, cyborgs, toys - Techlepathy
cyborgs
March 2011
- Ruins of Imagination
architects, archivists, artifacts, ruins, tunnels - Information Half-Life
archivists, cities, dissidents, police, prophets, spies - Averting Disaster
astronauts, gizmos, spies - It is Late and I am Very Tired
animals, architects, cyborgs, gizmos - Tightening Up Building 3
architects, games - Saying Sooths
prophets - Building To The Sun
architects, cities - Ice Palaces
architects - Flexible Ego Boundaries
borders, cities - Memo To All Agritech Staff RE: Impending Wikileaks Document “Dump”
plants, spies - Eco Stalking Trees
cities, cyborgs, plants - Disintegrating Computers
gizmos
February 2011
- Upper Toronto
architects, cities - The Best Networked Plans
cameras, dissidents, drones, spies
January 2011
- The Cyborg Ethics of Eating
animals, architects, cyborgs, plants - Shearing Layers of Stuff
dematerialization
November 2010
- 50 Cyborgs in 5 Minutes
cyborgs & architects - Burning Home
cyborgs
October 2010
- On the Streets with a Glitchwired Brain
cyborgs, soldiers - The Civic Pride of Special Economic Zone 2074931
architects, borders, cities, dissidents - Echoes of a Soul
robots, spirits - Your Lying Cheating Robot Heart
robots - Wearable Ethics
architects, cyborgs - 17 Cyborg Upgrades: The Clynes and Kline Enhancement Package
cyborgs
September 2010
- Surviving in an Alien Environment: Human + Christ as Medieval Natural-Born Cyborg
cyborgs, spirits - Cities for Cyborgs: 10 Rules
architects, cities, cyborgs - Some Major Terminator Fan Is Totally Going to Nail My Ass to the Wall for This*
cyborgs, robots, soldiers - Cognitive Load
cyborgs, roads - Domesticated Cyborgs — Kevin Kelly
cyborgs - What’s a Cyborg?
cyborgs - September is Cyborg Month
cyborgs
July 2010
- With a Steely-Sweet Caress
robots - The Panoptiswarm Swarms On
borders, spies - Cells in the Panoptiswarm
cameras, dissidents, soldiers, spies - Alone in the Everycity
architects, cities
June 2010
- Total Information Unawareness
cameras, dissidents, spies - Baudrillard’s Patio
architects, dissidents - Cyborg Traffic Cops
architects, cities, cyborgs, roads - Privacy Is Not the Opposite of Freedom
dissidents, spies - After The Last Viridian Note
artifacts, gizmos
May 2010
- The Plants that Get Loved Get to Live
architects, cyborgs, plants - Implants. Virii. Walking Botnets.
cyborgs - National Geographic — End of Decade Microfiction
pirates, ruins - Rag Picking
archivists - Things a City Can Do to You
cities, cyborgs - Disposable Ideas
archivists - Trails of Light and Shadow
architects, cyborgs - Wrecked & Wasted — Ballardian Microfiction
pirates - But First We Must Send Robots
astronauts, drones, robots - Cybermilitia
cyborgs, dissidents, soldiers - Glitch Trading
robots
April 2010
- Points for Everything!
cyborgs, games
March 2010
- The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Pre-production
archivists, gizmos - Waiting to Shift Phases
architects, islands
February 2010
- Islands in the Net
architects - Intelligence with a Data Plan
cyborgs, gizmos
January 2010
- Woven Spaces
architects, borders, cyborgs - Killing with a Personal Touch
cyborgs, soldiers - Units of Selection
cyborgs - Re-skinning Reality
cameras, dissidents, gizmos - A Life Needs Plans
thieves - Gradual Calamity
architects, cities, ruins - Domesticating the Enemy
cyborgs, dissidents, soldiers
December 2009
- AA Guns and the Birth of Cybernetics
cyborgs, soldiers - Gadgets and God
gizmos, spirits - The Future is Near
gizmos - Cultural Infection
borders, dissidents, soldiers - Time Stopped
artifacts, gizmos, prophets - B-List Holy Grails
gizmos - Conference Badges: Early Augmented Reality
gizmos
November 2009
- Lanyards & Pockets
cameras, cyborgs, gizmos, toys - Writing. In Spaaace!
astronauts, gizmos - Hacking With Pictures
cameras, cyborgs, thieves - It was Always an Internet of Things
cyborgs - The Objectless Office
dematerialization - We can Imagine it for you, Wholesale
gizmos
October 2009
- The Looming Collapse of FedEx
artifacts, couriers, factories, gizmos, toys - The Unbearable Lightness of Things
dematerialization - Secure/Obscure
borders, cameras, dissidents, gizmos, thieves - Broken Superpowers
buildings that protest - When the Future Crossed into the Present
robots, soldiers - There is No Single-Use Lego
toys
September 2009
- The Lost Drone Army
dissidents, drones - Soundtrack for a City
cities, gizmos - Iron Horsepower
architects, cities - Databar
buildings that protest - anARchy
dissidents, gizmos, thieves - The Free Freeways
drones, roads
August 2009
- James Watt, Cyberneticist
cyborgs - Would We Make Them?
buildings that protest - On a Grand Scale
buildings that protest - Haunted by Design
buildings that protest - Buildings That Protest
buildings that protest - 6 Involuntary Parks
architects, plants, ruins - I Want Architectural Counter-Contests
architects - Floatopia
architects, dissidents, pirates - On Oak Beams & Contingency Plans
architects, plants - Glimpses of a City
architects, artifacts, cities - How Deep Do Cities Go?
architects, tunnels
July 2009
- Broken Windows: A Terrorist Plot
architects, dissidents - 3 Stories About Regional Architecture
architects - 6 Points On a Continuum
cyborgs & architects - The Invisible Infrastructure of Cyborgs
cyborgs & architects - Mobile Structures
cyborgs & architects - Nomads & Homesteaders
cyborgs & architects - Astronauts & Super Villains
cyborgs & architects - Adaptation
cyborgs & architects
June 2009
- If Plants Had Culture
plants - Meanwhile, Dubai’s Palm Islands Wait to Drown
architects, islands - The Gyre
islands - DRM: The Fight Against Posterity
archivists, gizmos
May 2009
- Books Learn About Pirates
pirates, thieves - Living in the Future
astronauts, drones, gizmos, pirates, robots
March 2009
- Clinging to the Edge of History
dissidents, gizmos
December 2008
- Sustainable AND Scaleable?
plants - Over Optimized
animals, plants, prophets
November 2008
- The Prediction is that People Forget
gizmos, prophets - Building a Better Rosetta Stone
artifacts
August 2008
- Scoring in Gymnastics
games
July 2008
- Playing by All the Rules
games
