Sovereignty and the UFO

UFO – Ubiquitous Forth Object

The UFO will form a combination of CPU and operating system technology, namely a stackmachine CPU core, and a Forth operating system. However both of these components will have novel properties, in that a scaleable target instance can be generated, according to a trade-off between gate-count, speed, power, and computational performance. Simpler machines can emulate more complex ones, but at the...

Adventures with Rubik’s UFO

IBM UFO Repository

Currently, WWW, large enterprises, and desktop users suffer from an inability to efficiently access and manage differently structured data. The same data objects (e.g. Product) stored by different databases, repositories, distributed web storage systems, etc are named, referenced, and combined internally into schemas or data structures differently. This leads to structural mismatch of data that...

Technology and the Sovereignty of the Individual

INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................... 351 I. COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES PROLIFERATE FASTER AFTER LIBERALIZATION ............................................................ 352 II. COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES PRODUCED BY LIBERAL DEMOCRACIES ARE HELPING TO CREATE LIBERAL DEMOCRACIES .......................................................

Fear, Sovereignty, and the Right to Die

This paper addresses the “right to die” through the lens of Derrida’s The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume One. Specifically focusing on the case of Tony Nicklinson v. Ministry of Justice, 2012, the essay posits two things. First, Derrida’s insight helps us understand how a “fear of death” is a fundamental performative feature of sovereignty politics. Second, in order to maintain its performativ...