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Circus Bazaar Magazine as a vocation
Ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages! Thank you for having blessed the universally acclaimed and much anticipated first edition of Circus Bazaar magazine with your sought-after presence.
Catching tigers in red weather and the falling human
Every technology comes to be used to meet the needs of its time. Those needs interact with the often hidden-from-view affordances that reside in the tech to radically skew the intentions with which it might have been conceived and developed.
On Data, Devices and Daemons
The world changed in 2007. It’s hard to imagine now, but there was a time before smartphones. The breakthrough device, of course, was the iPhone. We’d had constant availability, whether through Blackberries, HTC devices or Nokias before then.
Witnessing Algorithms and the Paradox of Synthetic Media
Synthetic media are everywhere. Digital images and objects that appear to index something in the world but do nothing of the sort have their roots in video games and online worlds like Second Life.
Online and imploding on their smartphones
Launched in 2007, this one device now makes it possible to record events, find work, manage teams, locate ourselves on the planet, upload our experiences to social media, get a mortgage, read the newspaper, order a taxi, rent a holiday home, buy almost anything and get it delivered to our front door.
The circulation of power and ethics in AI, robotics, and autonomy research in Australia
Key to unlocking these opportunities is solving or mitigating both the ethical and practical challenges associating with using such systems.
The Social Media Mirage
During the Delta wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, an octogenarian emeritus professor at the University of Georgia abruptly quit in the middle of a class he was teaching because a student refused to don a hygienic mask.
OUR WRITERS
Social Sciences
Catching tigers in red weather and the falling human
Every technology comes to be used to meet the needs of its time. Those needs interact with the often hidden-from-view affordances that reside in the tech to radically skew the intentions with which it might have been conceived and developed.
On Data, Devices and Daemons
The world changed in 2007. It’s hard to imagine now, but there was a time before smartphones. The breakthrough device, of course, was the iPhone. We’d had constant availability, whether through Blackberries, HTC devices or Nokias before then.
Witnessing Algorithms and the Paradox of Synthetic Media
Synthetic media are everywhere. Digital images and objects that appear to index something in the world but do nothing of the sort have their roots in video games and online worlds like Second Life.
Social Sciences
R.A. the Rugged Man: Dragon Fire
A music video produced for certified legends of Hip Hop Wu-Tang Clan, Kool G Rap, R.A. the Rugged Man and Xx3eme. Set in Queens, New York City in the early 1980s, we follow the blood-thirsty “Dragon Fire”, as he avenges the brutal rape and murder of the beautiful Kara Fire by battling street thugs, deadly ninjas and a Rothchild orgy before facing down the Big Boss on top of an abandoned print shop.
Catching tigers in red weather and the falling human
Every technology comes to be used to meet the needs of its time. Those needs interact with the often hidden-from-view affordances that reside in the tech to radically skew the intentions with which it might have been conceived and developed.
On Data, Devices and Daemons
The world changed in 2007. It’s hard to imagine now, but there was a time before smartphones. The breakthrough device, of course, was the iPhone. We’d had constant availability, whether through Blackberries, HTC devices or Nokias before then.
Witnessing Algorithms and the Paradox of Synthetic Media
Synthetic media are everywhere. Digital images and objects that appear to index something in the world but do nothing of the sort have their roots in video games and online worlds like Second Life.
Arts & Entertainment
Science
Science
STS, platform capitalism and the conundrum of expertise
They might be loath to admit it, but many Science and Technology Studies [STS] scholars today long for the halcyon days of the so-called “Science Wars” of the 1990s. Back then, those scholars were relatively united in their defenses against a loos…
by Philip Mirowski
American literature in English
American literature in English
ELIZA, the paperclip maximizer: A story
An unspecified government agency released a set of decoded log files [see below], recovered from an accident at an AI research lab. According to an eyewitness who visited the site, an “unusually large” heap of paperclips towered over the wreckage.
by Andrea Brennen
Social Sciences
Catching tigers in red weather and the falling human
Every technology comes to be used to meet the needs of its time. Those needs interact with the often hidden-from-view affordances that reside in the tech to radically skew the intentions with which it might have been conceived and developed.
On Data, Devices and Daemons
The world changed in 2007. It’s hard to imagine now, but there was a time before smartphones. The breakthrough device, of course, was the iPhone. We’d had constant availability, whether through Blackberries, HTC devices or Nokias before then.
Witnessing Algorithms and the Paradox of Synthetic Media
Synthetic media are everywhere. Digital images and objects that appear to index something in the world but do nothing of the sort have their roots in video games and online worlds like Second Life.
Social Sciences
Catching tigers in red weather and the falling human
Every technology comes to be used to meet the needs of its time. Those needs interact with the often hidden-from-view affordances that reside in the tech to radically skew the intentions with which it might have been conceived and developed.
Witnessing Algorithms and the Paradox of Synthetic Media
Synthetic media are everywhere. Digital images and objects that appear to index something in the world but do nothing of the sort have their roots in video games and online worlds like Second Life.
Trump Is All That Is Left
Living in Norway, the oil-rich social democracy and producing a documentary on related subjects has been an eye opening experience. Not only is it significantly further left of the United States politically, but it is also representative of a privileged and homogeneous class of nation-state that is almost pathological in its moral certitude at the same time injurious in its depiction of less advantaged nations internal political quirks.
The Social Media Mirage
During the Delta wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, an octogenarian emeritus professor at the University of Georgia abruptly quit in the middle of a class he was teaching because a student refused to don a hygienic mask.
PODCAST
Social Sciences
Political science
Catching tigers in red weather and the falling human
Every technology comes to be used to meet the needs of its time. Those needs interact with the often hidden-from-view affordances that reside in the tech to radically skew the intentions with which it might have been conceived and developed.
by Zac Rogers
Social Sciences
Social Sciences
Norway’s Badass Batons & Starlight Tours: Police in Norway Come Under Human Rights Focus
The victim claims — to the denials of police — …
by Shane Alexander Caldwell
Trump Is All That Is Left
Living in Norway, the oil-rich social democracy…
by Shane Alexander Caldwell
A decade after, “Welcome to the Jungle.” A retrospective.
Almost a decade has rolled by since I was asked…
by The Stroud
Social Sciences
Social Sciences
Circus Bazaar Edition 01 | 2022 | 01 – Commercial
Catching Tigers in Red Weather 01 | 2022 | 01
The politics of science and technology in a new century of fear
Guest edited by Zac Rogers
An original production by the Circus Bazaar Company.
The Radioactive Little Men
Circus Bazaar Magazine has attracted the attention of an individual that seems to be making a statement of hostility towards our publication. What this means is unknown to us.
ELIZA, the paperclip maximizer: A story
An unspecified government agency released a set of decoded log files [see below], recovered from an accident at an AI research lab. According to an eyewitness who visited the site, an “unusually large” heap of paperclips towered over the wreckage.
R.A. the Rugged Man: Hate Speech
A medieval poet is accused of corrupting the youth. He is arrested, tortured and executed by the clergy. History would eventually resurrect his story, but if history does not repeat, it certainly does rhyme. Watch as we follow the story of R.A the Rugged Man as he finds himself in the middle of a contemporary critique of iconoclasm.
Catching tigers in red weather and the falling human
Every technology comes to be used to meet the needs of its time. Those needs interact with the often hidden-from-view affordances that reside in the tech to radically skew the intentions with which it might have been conceived and developed.
On Data, Devices and Daemons
The world changed in 2007. It’s hard to imagine now, but there was a time before smartphones. The breakthrough device, of course, was the iPhone. We’d had constant availability, whether through Blackberries, HTC devices or Nokias before then.
