Thinking About Technology and Science, Pt. 1

Ausubel, Kenny. “The Empire Strikes Out.” Alternet (October 17, 2003: adapted from a speech given at the 2003 Bioneers Conference)

Baran, Madeleine. “Welcome to the Matrix: Inside the Governments Secret, Corporate-Run Mega-Database.” The New Standard (August 8, 2004)

Benning, Jim. “Remembering Neil Postman.” Alternet (October 10, 2003)

Blyer, Jennifer. “An Anarchist in the Hudson Valley in conversation: Peter Lamborn Wilson” The Brooklyn Rail (July, 2004)

BushGreenWatch. “Scientific Fraud Condemns Panther.” Alternet (August 5, 2004)

Coyne, Brendan. “Anti Biotech Artist Indicted Possessing ‘Harmless’ Bacteria: FBI Confiscates Artwork Critical of Biotechnology.” The New Standard (July 6, 2004)

Critical Art Ensemble. “The Mythology of Terrorism on the Net.” (Address to Ars Electronica Conference, Summer 1995)

“Critical Arts Ensemble: Defense Fund.” (Website site devoted to supporting artistic collective protesting biotechnology from FBI harassment—supplies history of recent arrests and persecutions)

Cusac, Anne-Marie. “Fire Hazard: Bush Leaves Nuclear Plants at Risk.” Progressive (August 2004)

Esposito, Joseph J. “The Devil You Don’t Know: The Unexpected Future of Open Access Publishing.” First Monday 9.8 (August 2004)

Gardels, Nathan. “Neural Darwinism.” New Perspectives Quarterly (Summer 2004)

Grossman, Elizabeth. “High-Tech Wasteland: It’s the Information Age—So Why Don’t We Know How To Discard a Laptop Safely?” Orion (July/August 2004)

Hilf, Bill. “Media Lullabies: The Reinvention of the World Wide Web.” First Monday 3.4 (April 1998)

McKibben, Bill. “Designer Genes.” Orion (May/June, 2003)

---. “Helping Hand or Big Fat Fist?: Why Countries Are Saying No To U.S. Food Aid.” Orion (July/August 2004)

Mejias, Jordan. “Technopoly, or, Is There Any Room in Cyberspace for Democracy.” Aventis #1 (2000)

Postman, Neil. “Five Things We Need To Know About Technological Change.” (Speech given in Denver, Colorado: March 27, 1998)

---. “Informing Ourselves to Death.” (Speech given to the German Informatics Society in Stuttgart, Germany—Sponsored by IBM: Oct 11, 1990)

Rabkin, Yakov M. “Social Science: Famed for inventing the periodic table of elements, 19th-century chemist Dmitry Mendeleyev believed in science's potential to govern society.” Moscow Times (August 6, 2004)

Rosen, Jay. “Neil Postman (1931-2003): Some Recollections.” Press Think: Ghost of Democracy in the Media Machine (October 7, 2003)

Sabhlok, Sukrit. “Lest We Create a Generation of Slouchers.” Vibewire (August 6, 2004)

Sugar, Janos. “Interview with Peter Lamborn Wilson” The Hermetic Library (conducted at Metaforum II, Budapest, October 95')