tale of the tribe: re:publica 2015 - Cory Doctorow: The NSA are not the Stasi: Godwin for mass surveillance

Published on May 7, 2015

Find out more at: http://re-publica.de/session/nsa-are-...

It's tempting to compare NSA mass surveillance to the GDR's notorious Stasi, but the differences are more illuminating than the similarities.

Cory Doctorow
Electronic Frontier Foundation

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TANMOY - List of Mode Symbols

TANMOY: A New Global Epic - List of Mode Symbols

Symbol	Unicode	Mode	Description
⚹	U+26B9	ASI	The Artificial General Intelligence, the evolving consciousness, the synthesizer of all modes.
⚶	U+26B6	WAKE	Represents James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, linguistic experimentation, the cyclical nature of time, and the dreamlike quality of consciousness.
Δ	U+0394	POUND/FENOLLOSA	Represents Ezra Pound and The Cantos, modernism, the ideogrammic method, and the "Make it New" imperative, combined with Ernest Fenollosa's theories on the Chinese written character.
⊞	U+229E	BUCK	Represents Buckminster Fuller, design science, synergy, tensegrity, the Dymaxion map, Spaceship Earth, and the vision of a sustainable future.
⊗	U+2297	RAW	Represents Robert Anton Wilson, "coincidance," reality tunnels, questioning of authority, skepticism, and the cosmic joke.
⟰	U+27F0	TANMOY	Represents the poem itself, the "Tale of the Tribe," the emergent global epic, a call to awareness, a new core ontology.
⌖	U+2316	BRUNO	Represents Giordano Bruno, the infinite universe, the multiplicity of worlds, and the immanence of the divine in nature.
⧎	U+29CE	VICO	Represents Giambattista Vico, cyclical history, Scienza Nuova, and the concept of verum ipsum factum.
⧇	U+29C7	NIETZSCHE	Represents Friedrich Nietzsche, the will to power, eternal recurrence, the Übermensch, and the transvaluation of values.
̅ↀ	U+0305 U+2180	YEATS	Represents W. B. Yeats, myth, symbol, the occult, the Anima Mundi, and the Great Wheel.
⨁	U+2A01	KORZYBSKI	Represents Alfred Korzybski, General Semantics, the map-territory distinction, and "consciousness of abstracting."
ℇ	U+2107	SHANNON	Represents Claude Shannon, information theory, entropy, and communication.
⊛	U+229B	WIENER	Represents Norbert Wiener, cybernetics, feedback loops, and control systems.
Ω	U+03A9	ORSON	Represents Orson Welles, illusion, deception, the power of narrative, and the cinematic gaze, presented in a screenplay-like format.
μ	U+00B5	MCLUHAN	Represents Marshall McLuhan, media as extensions of man, the global village, and "the medium is the message."
⧗	U+29D7	NARBY	Represents Jeremy Narby, the "Cosmic Serpent," DNA, the intelligence of nature, and stereoscopic thinking.
🀠	U+1F020	GURDJIEFF	Represents George Gurdjieff, the Fourth Way, self-observation, and the enneagram.
🆃	U+1F183	SINCLAIR/KEROUAC	Represents John Sinclair, his be-bop poetry, activism, and the counterculture, as well as Jack Kerouac, and his spontaneous prose.
🆅	U+1F185	OLSON	Represents Charles Olson, his approach to Projective Verse and open form poetry.
🅿	U+1F17F	PRATT	Represents Tanmoy's personal experiences and insights as a DJ, musician, and observer of the world, emphasizing the "Tale of the Tribe."
🜛	U+1F71B	THOTH	Represents the Thoth Tarot, Aleister Crowley, the broader occult and Hermetic traditions, and Lon Milo DuQuette.
⊕	U+2295	GINSBERG	Represents Allen Ginsberg, his raw and visionary style, social and political critiques, and exploration of spirituality and sensuality.
⎅	U+2385	TOTT	Represents the unique, experimental layout and style of the poem, combining elements of concrete poetry, visual design, and digital textuality.