Comments on: Facebook as Biopolitical Technology

By: Nathan Madsen

Nathan Madsen — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:46:19 +0000

This can and probably will backfire. I’m giving Facebook 6 months of all of this “branding” BS before it becomes 2007’s Friendster. I mean, who really wants to see an online hangout strangled by billboards? You guys remember ads that ran in the DT inviting students to allow companies to spray-paint their logos onto your car, and they’ll take over the payments? Nobody goes for that stuff…

By: eli

eli — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:59:52 +0000

Facebook: the new office of information awareness - facebook has been backed by the CIA.

By: hans

hans — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 06:58:09 +0000

Yet another quick note, while Microsoft bought only a small piece of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, in his dear customers’ perspective, sold all of Facebook and more.

When Zuckerberg’s strongest defense in ConnectU lawsuit was the expiration of statute of limitations, one could not help but wonder whether this guy has already sold his ethical integrity. That is, if he ever had one to begin with.

By: eli

eli — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:00:56 +0000

On biopolitics, check out this, and Lazzarato on its distinction from biopower.

But seriously, you completely missed my implicit references to race and space… facebook is now going to become a n3tw0rk3d (inter)space tool for Bill Gates’s crusade to create a new miscegenated race of yuppie-nerds called ‘fixed gear bike enthusiasts’.

By: vijay

vijay — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 05:10:04 +0000

another quick note, I think you meant “Facebook as Race, Space, and Biopolitical Technology.” Your post fails to consider Race and Space dimensional problems created by the appropriation. Maybe you should spend less time bitching about microsoft, and more time considering what I just wrote. In multiple dimensions.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 03:19:40 +0000

Quick note, microsoft only bought a small piece of facebook, not the whole thing.