information architecture & critical history of software (PhD research) in Toronto

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Quinn DuPont studies the critical history of software technologies, focusing on metaphysical, historical, and political issues. He has recently been studying the history of email and developing an argument about the modes of production for software development. Quinn is currently a MITACS Enhanced Accelerate PhD Fellow and iSchool PhD student in Toronto, Canada.

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  • Difference and Repetition
    Difference and Repetition
    by Gilles Deleuze
  • From Taylorism to Fordism: A Rational Madness
    From Taylorism to Fordism: A Rational Madness
    by Bernard Doray
  • Questioning Technology
    Questioning Technology
    by Andrew Feenberg
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Wednesday
Nov042009

(Mobile thoughts) Is Internet sabotage everywhere?

I’ve been doing a lot of research on digital sabotage as of late, and since I’m putting so much stock in the concept, it bears asking, is digital sabotage common? Further, how far can you stretch the concept? Intentionality seems like a poor desiderata for a sabotage test, and beyond this, is it possible to create a bright-line test? Maybe we need a set of principals to determine what is and what is not sabotage? What does this say about our ability to interrogate the ontology of sabotage?