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CESNUR Paper: Bahai Dissent by Bei Dawei
2011-07-02 02:43:00 On the heels of the conference in Canada, Intellectual Othering & the Baha’i Question in Iran, Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR) held its international conference in Taipei, Taiwan. Among the papers presented was “Baha’i and Subud dissent: Developments in the 2000′s” by Bei Dawei. The paper compares and contrasts the recent dissident community ...
Broadcasting the panopticon: Art project transforms wireless surveillance i
2008-03-03 09:00:00 Surveillance is a response to fear. A cautious response, perhaps, and sometimes a paranoid response. But what about the product of surveillance? The images and sounds? If the images of people are taken without permission, who owns them? What few owners of wireless video surveillance systems realize is that their security needs are also little television stations broadcasting images to anyone who can find them. Dublin-based artist Benjamin Gaulon is doing just that and using what he finds to subvert assumptions about the public-private nature of surveillance technologies. 2.4 Ghz (the project name) uses simple consumer technologies to pickup and display wireless surveillance camera signals in a local area. Gaulon installs them in public places ? for example, attached to a lamp post in front of a building. What was a private ?taking? of privacy becomes public, a kind of turning inside out of the arrangement of surveillance. The images are eery and, of, course immense...
Broadcasting the panopticon: Art project transforms wireless surveillance i
2008-03-03 09:00:00 Surveillance is a response to fear. A cautious response, perhaps, and sometimes a paranoid response. But what about the product of surveillance? The images and sounds? If the images of people are taken without permission, who owns them? What few owners of wireless video surveillance systems realize is that their security needs are also little television stations broadcasting images to anyone who can find them. Dublin-based artist Benjamin Gaulon is doing just that and using what he finds to subvert assumptions about the public-private nature of surveillance technologies. 2.4 Ghz (the project name) uses simple consumer technologies to pickup and display wireless surveillance camera signals in a local area. Gaulon installs them in public places ? for example, attached to a lamp post in front of a building. What was a private ?taking? of privacy becomes public, a kind of turning inside out of the arrangement of surveillance. The images are eery and, of, course immense...
China's eye on the Internet
2007-12-02 22:27:00 The "Great Firewall of China," used by the government of the People's Republic of China to block users from reaching content it finds objectionable, is actually a "panopticon" that encourages self-censorship through the perception that users are being watched, rather than a true firewall, according to researchers at UC Davis and the University of New Mexico.The researchers are developing an automated tool, called ConceptDoppler, to act as a weather report on changes in Internet censorship in China. ConceptDoppler uses mathematical techniques to cluster words by meaning and identify keywords that are likely to be blacklisted.Many countries carry out some form of Internet censorship. Most rely on systems that block specific Web sites or Web addresses, said Earl Barr, a graduate student in computer science at UC Davis who is an author on the paper. China takes a different approach by filtering Web content for specific keywords and selectively blocking Web pages.In 2006, a team at the ...
Bill Davis Comment On UHJ April 19th Letter
2007-09-10 17:22:00 Bill Davis at the US National Convention asking the delegates to bury the NSA’s own letter and instead focus the attention of Baha’is on the UHJ’s letter: What is this all about? US NSA Annual Report - Ridvan 2007 House of Justice Letter April 19 2007 - Response To NSA US Counsellor Rebequa Murphy’s Comment At Convention Mr. William E. ...
Those Naughty, Naughty ?Baha?i Dissidents?
2007-09-02 17:05:00 A few weeks ago, fellow Baha’i blogger J. A. McLean wrote an article titled “Dissidents and the Baha’i Faith”. It attracted a lot of attention, especially from quite of few of those naughty, naughty “dissidents”. So much so that Jack seems to have changed his mind about the whole thing and decided to call it ... |
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