The Second Disquisition: Self-Replicating Automata

Topics Discussed:

• Kony 2012
• Twitter Trends
• Botnets and Spam
• Prometheus film trailer and the Alien series
• Dark Horse Comics
• Encyclopedia Britannica ceases printed publication
• The rise and development of Wikipedia
• Political dominance within social news networks
• The Evolving Internet
• The Facebook "Borg"
• Diaspora and Ilya Zhitomirskiy
• Christopher Dombres - Activist and Artist

Recommended Reading:

• The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom by Yochai Benkler
• The Defenders by Philip K. Dick
• Second Variety by Philip K. Dick
• Disturbing The Universe by Freeman Dyson
• Batman verses Predator by Dave Gibbons
• War With The Robots by Harry Harrison
• Mapping Russian Twitter by John Kelly, Vladimir Barash, Karina Alexanyan, Bruce Etling, Robert Faris, Urs Gasser, and John Palfrey
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
• The Company of the Dead by David Kowalski
• A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
• The Hard Goodbye: Sin City (Book 1) by Frank Miller
• The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom by Evgeny Morozov
• The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding From You by Eli Pariser
• Alien Vs. Predator by Randy Stradley, Phill Norwood, and Chris Warner

Recommended Viewing:

• Being John Malkovich directed by Spike Jonze
• I'm Here directed by Spike Jonze
• Sin City directed by Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez, and Quentin Tarantino
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo directed by Niels Arden Oplev
• Alien directed by Ridley Scott
• Prometheus Trailer directed by Ridley Scott

Recommended Subreddits:

• No Sleep

Recommended Links:

• Christopher Dombres @ Flickr
• The Death of the Cyberflneur
• Robotic Underground Munitions
• KONY2012: See How Invisible Networks Helped a Campaign Capture the World's Attention
• Wikipedia and the Internet just killed 244-year-old Encyclopaedia Britannica

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Disquisition is a podcast documenting the meandering tangents and discursive ramblings within ongoing conversations between Greg Davies aka cGt2099 and Lee Garnett aka ncomment. The show goes in depth into a variety of thoughts ranging from socio-cultural elements and political elements within social media; to history and philosophy, and a variety of book and film recommendations.

Music used in the Disquisition Intro and Closing Theme was performed and written by Terr Ciavarra aka Media Nox

Catch Greg Davies online at the Social Blend Podcast and on Twitter @cGt2099

Catch Lee Garnett online at his ncomment comics blog and on Twitter @ncomment

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