reorganizing

README.md

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 ## a road map to living as a cyborg
 
 ### part 0: introduction
-- [why this project? why now?](./part0/why this project - why now.md)
-- [why is this on github?](./part0/why github.md)
+- [why this project? why now?][1]
+- [why is this on github?][2]
 
 ### part 1: critical concepts
-- [what is a cyborg, anyway?](./part1/what is a cyborg/index.md) 
-- a crash course on media theory (coming soon)
-- webs of knowledge: a new way of understanding our world (coming soon) 
-- code: prescribing a fluid universe (coming soon)
-
+- [what is a cyborg, anyway?]()(./part1/what is a cyborg.md) 
 ### part 2: notes on our lives as cyborgs
-- [fake news](./part2/fake news/notes.md)
-- hypertext (coming soon)
-- bitcoin (coming soon)
-- memes (coming soon)
-- digital art (coming soon)
-- soylent (coming soon)
-- busy/away (coming soon)
-- social networks (coming soon)
-- the irony of a capitalist internet (coming soon)
-- wikis and open source software (coming soon)
-- WALL-E: a glimpse at a communitarian politics for the post-cyborg age (coming soon)
+- [fake news]()(./part2/notes on fake news.md)
+- [WALL-E: a glimpse at a communitarian politics for the post-cyborg age][5]
+
+[1]:	./part0/why%20this%20project%20-%20why%20now.md
+[2]:	./part0/why%20github.md
+[5]:	https://brettneese.wordpress.com/2016/11/22/the-communitarian-politics-of-wall%C2%B7e/

[Inbox].md

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-Maybe add more information about GitHub? Or save that for later.
+# Random notes 
+
+-  [x]() Maybe add more information about GitHub? Or save that for later.
 
 Instead of quoting various authors, why not simply include a section such as “notes on harraway, notes on McLuhan, etc”
 
 Cyborgs vs tool users?
+
+# Yet to Write 
+
+- hypertext (coming soon)
+- bitcoin (coming soon)
+- memes (coming soon)
+- digital art (coming soon)
+- soylent (coming soon)
+- busy/away (coming soon)
+- social networks (coming soon)
+- the irony of a capitalist internet (coming soon)
+- wikis and open source software (coming soon)
+

part0/why github.md

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 My answer to this problem, at least as far as this project is concerned, is that in order to hopefully understand these complex structures, it remains deeply embedded in them through form and process. I’m writing it using Markdown, an open-source document markup language, and hosting it on GitHub, a shared platform for code. As I will later explore, I think there are many incredibly interesting dialogues that can be opened by thinking through all communication as a kind of “code;” and it only makes sense for my nerdy impulses to utilize the tools that I’m accustomed to using for software development to craft a new kind of intellectual program: in my mind, software development is a kind of conversation and this piece is a very similar kind of conversation. 
 
-Git, really, is the perfect tool for the kind of thinking necessary for the networked age - arguably even more than wikis. Git allows offline, distributed “collaboration without coordination,” as Clay Shirky put it in his TED talk a few years ago. It’s a new form of argumentation that fits both the ideals of democracy and of radical communitarianism. Just as an open-source project allows anyone to look at and modify the source code, I’m also planning on releasing much of my “source code,” — notes, readings, scribbles, and observations (as appropriate and legal.) I encourage others to do the same. 
+Git, really, is the perfect tool for the kind of thinking necessary for the networked age - arguably even more than wikis. Git allows offline, distributed “collaboration without coordination,” as Clay Shirky [put it in his TED talk a few years ago][1]. It’s a new form of argumentation that fits both the ideals of democracy and of radical communitarianism. Just as an open-source project allows anyone to look at and modify the source code, I’m also planning on releasing much of my “source code,” — notes, readings, scribbles, and observations (as appropriate and legal.) I encourage others to do the same. 
 
-Plus, because I’m hosting it on GitHub, I can take advantage of all the collaboration features Git and GitHub provide: I can use structures like branches, pull requests, and maybe even Git’s issue tracking and wiki functionality to attempt to organize many chaotic thoughts on this quite expansive project.
+Plus, because I’m hosting it on GitHub, I can take advantage of all the collaboration features Git and GitHub provide: I can use structures like branches, pull requests, and maybe even Git’s issue tracking and wiki functionality to attempt to organize many chaotic thoughts on this quite expansive project. 
 
-With that said: pull requests are definitely welcome! I’d love to expand the opportunity to collaborate around this project’s fundamental question: how do we live our lives now that we’re cyborgs?
+\<iframe width="800" height="448" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/w3jLJU7DT5E" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen\>\</iframe\>
+
+With that said: pull requests are definitely welcome! I’d love to expand the opportunity to collaborate around this project’s fundamental question: how do we live our lives now that we’re cyborgs?
+
+[1]:	https://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_the_internet_will_one_day_transform_government

part0/why this project - why now.md

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 Don’t consider this piece alarmist. Don’t consider it pessimistic. Don’t consider it even terribly coherent. It can’t be coherent, at least in the traditional sense, because it is an exploration of those structures that ground our sense of coherency. As a text, it ironically is forced to use and abuse the structures of the old guard — the printed, written word — to discuss the age of the digital human. I’m absolutely aware of the difficulty of such a project, and the beast that consists of the nasty contradictions of this project will inevitably rear its head in from time to time. I’m going to welcome that beast with open arms, because fighting it would be an exercise in futility.  
 
-I still, however, think and hope this project will be a useful one, for I’m not sure how else we can embark on a fruitful discussion of our new world without spending some time thinking about, and dismantling these structures. The easiest way to do that — and, perhaps because I’m lazy or perhaps because I’m at a loss for how else to do it — is through discussing these structures first broadly; then exploring these structures as they appear across specific spheres of our daily lives.
-
-This project is also unique in that in order to hopefully combat the limits of some of these complex structures, it, itself is deeply immersed in them in form. I’m writing it using Markdown, an open-source document markup language, and hosting it on GitHub, a shared platform for code. As I will later explore, I think think there’s many very interesting dialogues that can be had by thinking through all communication through the lens of “code.” Because I’m hosting it on GitHub, I can take advantage of all the collaboration features Git and GitHub provides, specifically with regards to branches, pull requests, and the like. 
-
-With that said: pull requests are definitely welcome! I’d love to expand the opportunity to collaborate and incorporate multiple perspectives that begin to answer the question: how do we live our lives now that we’re cyborgs?
-
+I still, however, think and hope this project will be a useful one, for I’m not sure how else we can embark on a fruitful discussion of our new world without spending some time thinking about and dismantling these structures. The easiest way to do that — and, perhaps because I’m lazy or perhaps because I’m at a loss for how else to do it — is through discussing these structures first broadly; then exploring these structures as they appear across specific spheres of our daily lives — so that’s how this project is structured: part one is a deep dive into theory, while part two is a collection of thoughts — notes, really — on our new social reality. Through these discussions, I hope to generate a corpus of useful observations that will help both me and the reader come to better understand and interpert this new, post-human, cyborg, world.