Joshua Johnson

Spiders roam gossamer filaments, burning through RSS feeds, social networking platforms, and blogs, routing back through high-speed fiber-optic cables, and depositing base data to be transmuted in the server-banks to pure gold. Last week, NPR reported that 75% of market volatility was the product of High Frequency Trading (HFT). [1] HFT runs on hyper-engineered algorithms [...]

Whence then, does resistance rise? It is hard, at this point in time, growing up as a part of the generation that, as she says, “was formed during the Reagan Bush era when anything resembling true critiques of authority and power have been methodically ridiculed, demonized, or erased, creating a cohort that is surprisingly obedient and conformist, when not imbued with a sense of hopelessness.”