Every day, computers are making people easier to use.

Could this be Paul Rabinow’s take on the internet?  The phrase is a cover story headline from a publication called In Formation.  (The mag is now defunct, only a memory, but see remnants here and discussion here.)  Rabinow edits a book series at Princeton University Press called In-Formation.  It’s kind of an eery coincidence — and a funny one.  Could ‘technologies using people’ be said to characterize certain strands of thought in a certain famous philosopher?

{Hat Tip:  Toby Boyd}

Strong is Thomas Strong, lecturer in the department of anthropology at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He has previously held teaching and/or research posts at the University of Helsinki, the University of California, San Francisco, the University of Wisconsin, and (oddly enough) the American Academy of Ophthalmology. His publications include essays on the symbolism of blood and body in the U.S. and elsewhere, new cross-disciplinary work on kinship, and ideas of culture loss and bodily detumescence amongst the Dano-speakers of Papua New Guinea's eastern highlands province. His on-going research in PNG concerns transformations in sociality, gender relations, and personhood following the mid-twentieth-century repudiation of the traditional men's cult in the upper Asaro valley. His other interests include 'brand' as an ethnographic and analytic concept, HIV/AIDS (especially in the U.S. gay male community), and celebrity/fame.