Links for 07-10-2007
Ginsberg’s “Howl” still scares the thought police, your outboard brain …
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1 – ‘Howl’ too hot to hear / 50 years after poem ruled not obscene, radio fears to air it
“Free-speech advocates see tremendous irony in how Ginsberg’s epic poem …- is, half a century later, chilled by a federal government crackdown on the broadcasting of provocative language.” FFS.
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2 – Your Outboard Brain Knows All
“My point is that the cyborg future is here. Almost without noticing it, we’ve outsourced important peripheral brain functions to the silicon around us. And frankly, I kind of like it.” Positivist technophobia?
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