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Dr. Junk

Junkware

About Me

MyGen Profile Generator MyGen Profile GeneratorProfesseur en communication à l'université de Montréal. Communication professor at the University of Montréal. Sociologist of science and technology, with a focus on cyberculture studies. Sociologue de la science et de la technique avec l'emphase sur les études de la cyberculture. Auteur de _Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution and the origins of personal computing (Stanford University Press, 2000).

My Interests

MyGen Profile Generator Pour un aperçu de mes recherches actuelles, for a glimpse of my current project, check: http://www.junkware.net

Music:

MyGen Profile Generator rock - jazz - blues - reggae - electronica

Movies:

MyGen Profile Generator Blade Runner and countless others

Books:

MyGen Profile Generator About a million of them

Heroes:

MyGen Profile Generator Bruce Chatwin, Leonard Cohen, Jorge Luis Borges, Jean Baudrillard, Duns Scot.

My Blog

End noise?

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Posted by Dr. Junk on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:54:00 PST

Dis-Affect, end.

Suddenly it came to me that my own life pointed towards a different perspective on the future of generation than the one I wrote about previously, one about the essential lack of parenthood of future ...
Posted by Dr. Junk on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 05:14:00 PST

Little Oedipus, IV

How else do you think that the last revolution could be invented, other than over the ashes of a potent mix of Freudianism and Marxism? Fortunately, when this revolution was brewing, science came to t...
Posted by Dr. Junk on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 06:11:00 PST

Little Oedipus, III

There used to be such a common nature of human beings: Daddy and Mommy must have done it. One could not conceived of a human being without he or she having been conceived first by the sexual encounter...
Posted by Dr. Junk on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 05:23:00 PST

Little Oedipus, II

Then the latest revolution happened. Away with discipline! First: I do not need a Daddy and Mommy to censor me all my life. Drop out! No more policing my share of the noetic soul. Fuck Oedipus. Let th...
Posted by Dr. Junk on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 06:16:00 PST

Little Oedipus, intermezzo

At first, you resorted to the nice stories your parents had told you: baby boys are born in coleslaw, girls in roses& then came the charming metaphors, Daddy the gardener, with his little seeds, Mommy...
Posted by Dr. Junk on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 07:16:00 PST

Dis-Affect, VI

It's a boy! It's a girl! It's an androgynous alien! It's an asexual creature, angel or daemon, who knows? It's Homo nexus (thank you Devo!).In the meantime, the prospective parents are very anxious. S...
Posted by Dr. Junk on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:34:00 PST

Dis-Affect, V

In Anxiety, said Lacan, "the subject is seized, concerned, interested in his most intimate." (Séminaire X: L'angoisse, Paris, Seuil, 2004, 187.) The anxiety of today's disaffected individual is indeed...
Posted by Dr. Junk on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 05:09:00 PST

Dis-Affect, IV

Disaffected man, the ultimate precursor of Homo nexus, his best symptom, is no ordinary desperate: he is not even worth your pity. The new Pharmakon is here to take care of him. As time goes by and he...
Posted by Dr. Junk on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 06:08:00 PST

Dis-Affect, III

Dis-affected, dis-affection, in both of the French senses of the term. In English, disaffected simply means "estranged" or "rebellious" (according to the Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary). The ...
Posted by Dr. Junk on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 06:04:00 PST