Archive for December, 2007
Cryptography and steganography are now used more widely in practice than at any prior moment in history, and so one might expect to find the self-evident origins of these modern practices in the work of cryptographic pioneers like John Wilkins, Francis Bacon, or Johannes Trithemius. Just as Newton’s alchemical leanings give pause to would-be historians [ READ MORE ]
So this consistently fantastic blog ‘larvalsubjects’ has recently sparked some discussion with a post entitled ‘Where’s Marx?‘ in which the poster wondered where the classic Marxist materialism might be found in the modern academy. Have we discarded altogether that essential tenet of his historical materialism, that is, the belief that ‘civil society’ is merely a [ READ MORE ]