katarina peovic's List: Philosophy

• Extropy is neither wave nor particle, nor pure energy. It is an immaterial force that is very much like information. Since extropy is defined as negative entropy — the reversal of disorder — it is, by definition, an increase in order. But what is order?

• The buzzwords viral marketing and viral advertising refer to marketing techniques that use pre-existing social networks to produce increases in brand awareness or to achieve other marketing objectives (such as product sales) through self-replicating viral processes, analogous to the spread of pathological and computer viruses
• orm of video clips, interactive Flash games, advergames, ebooks, brandable software, images, or even text message
• It can be word-of-mouth delivered or enhanced by the network effects of the Internet.
• The goal of marketers interested in creating successful viral marketing programs is to identify individuals with high Social Networking Potential (SNP) and create Viral Messages that appeal to this segment of the population and have a high probability of being passed along.
• The 2009 movie 2012 (film) currently is running a website called the Institute for Human Continuity; a fictional organization established to ensure the survival of humanity after the supposed 2012 apocalypse (on which the movie is based).

  • Nevjerojatno - istu stvar radili Critical art ensable... Institute of anacronistic organism, Cult of Eve itd.

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• task of defining technology in the context of man and nature.

• Socrates/Plato: Named their practice of inquiry "philosophy", and thereby stand at the head of a prominent (often called "Western") tradition of systematic intellectual analysis
• Aristotle: Wrote his Politics as an extension of his Nicomachean Ethics. Notable for the theories that humans are social animals, and that the polis (Ancient Greek city state) existed to bring about the good life appropriate to such animals
• gives way to the assembly of righteous government.
• God's gift of higher reason
• precursor to the concept of ideology
• how consent of a populace is negotiated
• first articulated how the concept of a social contrac
• first analysis of "rational egoism", in which the rational interest of self is conformance with pure reason
• Like Hobbes, described a social contract theory
• criticized the social contract theory of John Locke
• is undertaken not for self-preservation, as per Thomas Hobbes, but as a moral duty
• participation in civil society
• odern economics
• social justice
• cunning" of history
• hree possible political "systems"
• hegemon
• repressive desublimation
• efforts to fuse the thought of Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx
• "banality of evil
• Analyzed the roots of totalitarianism

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