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| '''THIS PAGE HAS BEEN LIBERATED BY BOBBY BOULDERS''' | |||
| '''John Levi Martin''' is an American ]; associate professor of ] at the ] since ]. He is the author of DAMN (Dyadic Analysis of Multiple Networks) and ELLA (Every-gal-and-guy’s Latent Lattice Analyser). | |||
| '''Long live the International Society of Vandals (ISV)!''' | |||
| === Areas of activity === | |||
| John Levi Martin is an intellectual nomad in the vast universe of sociological inquiry. These days, his main areas of interest are: field theory, social structures and party formation. He has previously written on classical theory, historical changes in sexual decision making and the economy, the shaping of belief systems, the use of race as a conceptual category in American sociology, the relationship between interpersonal power and attributions of sexiness, methods for the analysis of qualitative data, political psychology, and the division of labor in Busytown. | |||
| ==Selected works== | |||
| *(1998)“Structures of Power in Naturally Occurring Communities.” Social Networks | |||
| 20:197-225. | |||
| *(1999)“Entropic Measures of Belief System Constraint.” Social Science Research | |||
| 28:111-134. | |||
| *(1999) (With James Wiley:) “Algebraic Representations of Beliefs and Attitudes: | |||
| Partial Order Models for Item Responses.” Sociological Methodology 29:113- | |||
| 146. | |||
| *(1999)“A General Permutation-Based QAP Analysis for Dyadic Data from Multiple | |||
| Groups.” Connections 22: 50-60. | |||
| *(2002)“Some Algebraic Structures for Diffusion in Social Networks.” Journal of | |||
| Mathematical Sociology 26: 123-146. | |||
| *(2003)“What is Field Theory?” American Journal of Sociology 109: 1-49 | |||
| *forthcoming “The Objective and Subjective Rationalization of War.” Theory and Society. | |||
| *forthcoming “Is Power Sexy?” American Journal of Sociology. | |||
| To join the ISV, please e-mail Bobby Boulders at: imwithbobby @ yahoo.com | |||
| == On-line resources == | |||
| ==Declaration of Ongoing War Against Misplaced Pages: 8/2/06== | |||
| * | |||
| On this great day of August 2, in the Year of Our Lord 2006, the Good and Righteous leader Bobby Boulders has issued a continued Holy War against Misplaced Pages, as punishment for its members' insubordination and resistence to our valliant vandalism efforts. We will NOT rest until their entire Wiki is destroyed. Heaven be praised! | |||
| Our legions are vast, our numbers in the hundreds, and your Wiki will crumble before our might! | |||
| God is Great! | |||
| ] | |||
| Signed, | |||
| J. Robert Boulders, | |||
| Acting President and Spiritual Leader, | |||
| INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF VANDALS | |||
| ==Mission Statement== | |||
| '''ON VANDALISM''' | |||
| '''An Essay by Bobby Boulders''' | |||
| '''President, International Society of Vandals''' | |||
| What drives the Wikimedia vandal to action? What makes him or her tick? The current Administration of the various Wikimedia portals would have you believe that vandals act simply out of a need for attention. They seek to disrupt the ease and functionality of information exchange via the Wikimedia. And they seek to do this only “because they can.” | |||
| On a basic level, this concept is true. The majority of so-called “vandals” on the Wikimedia sites vandalize to get a rise out of their peers, or to be clever, cute, funny, or ridiculous. They seek little more than the fleeting attention their handiwork will generate before its inevitable reversion or removal. It is plainly obvious that such vandals are endemic to the Wikimedia, and will remain so, as long as the Wikimedia remain open-source sites, freely capable of being edited by any and all passing users. Primal, unconstructive vandalism is quick, easy, and will always be so. | |||
| Vandalism will always remain “easy,” but it needn’t always be unconstructive. Indeed, if bent to just purposes, vandalism of the Wikimedia can be a powerful political tool. We at the International Society of Vandals believe, quite firmly, that vandalism should be constructive in nature. It should serve a greater purpose. It should be done not in bad faith, but with positive, rehabilitative intent. We vandalize to bring about positive and pure change to the Wikimedia system. | |||
| What change do we seek? To be blunt, we strive for nothing less than the overthrow of the current Administration of the Wikimedia, and their replacement by more fair, balanced, and philanthropic Administrators. Like the common Frenchmen rebelling against their tyrannical government in the French Revolution, we believe quite strongly in the essence, spirit, and future of our “nation.” Indeed, we value the free exchange of information on the Wikimedia more highly than any of the Administrators do. And we believe that, only by removing or forcing the ouster of these fascist and tyrannical Administrators, can information once again flow freely. | |||
| The Administrators have gone too far. They have become cliquish, catty, fascist, and above all, self-interested. They have demonstrated, time and again, that they are not motivated by Good and Righteous desires to aid and continue the freedom of information and aggregation on the Wikimedia. Rather, they are interested only in reverting people’s edits, restricting the flow of new information, and resisting any and all change to the status quo of articles as they currently exist. | |||
| Science has taught us that information is not static. One can never know the sum total of all there is to know about any given subject. Likewise, to think that any given Wikimedia article needs no further revision – as seems to be the belief and practice of Administrators – is to spit in the face of Progress and Education. | |||
| And thus, our mission is made clear. We will continue to vandalize. We will continue to rebel against tyranny. We will continue, and we will NOT stop, until our goals have been achieved, and the current Administrators of Misplaced Pages are dethroned. We will disrupt and destroy all Wikimedia sites, piece by piece, until the owners of the Wikimedia sites have lost all faith in the Administrators to execute their jobs effectively. And once those Administrators are terminated from their duties, we will rest. And we will know peace, freedom, liberty, equality, and Progress. | |||
Revision as of 21:32, 2 August 2006
THIS PAGE HAS BEEN LIBERATED BY BOBBY BOULDERS
Long live the International Society of Vandals (ISV)!
To join the ISV, please e-mail Bobby Boulders at: imwithbobby @ yahoo.com
Declaration of Ongoing War Against Misplaced Pages: 8/2/06
On this great day of August 2, in the Year of Our Lord 2006, the Good and Righteous leader Bobby Boulders has issued a continued Holy War against Misplaced Pages, as punishment for its members' insubordination and resistence to our valliant vandalism efforts. We will NOT rest until their entire Wiki is destroyed. Heaven be praised!
Our legions are vast, our numbers in the hundreds, and your Wiki will crumble before our might!
God is Great!
Signed,
J. Robert Boulders,
Acting President and Spiritual Leader,
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF VANDALS
Mission Statement
ON VANDALISM
An Essay by Bobby Boulders
President, International Society of Vandals
What drives the Wikimedia vandal to action? What makes him or her tick? The current Administration of the various Wikimedia portals would have you believe that vandals act simply out of a need for attention. They seek to disrupt the ease and functionality of information exchange via the Wikimedia. And they seek to do this only “because they can.”
On a basic level, this concept is true. The majority of so-called “vandals” on the Wikimedia sites vandalize to get a rise out of their peers, or to be clever, cute, funny, or ridiculous. They seek little more than the fleeting attention their handiwork will generate before its inevitable reversion or removal. It is plainly obvious that such vandals are endemic to the Wikimedia, and will remain so, as long as the Wikimedia remain open-source sites, freely capable of being edited by any and all passing users. Primal, unconstructive vandalism is quick, easy, and will always be so.
Vandalism will always remain “easy,” but it needn’t always be unconstructive. Indeed, if bent to just purposes, vandalism of the Wikimedia can be a powerful political tool. We at the International Society of Vandals believe, quite firmly, that vandalism should be constructive in nature. It should serve a greater purpose. It should be done not in bad faith, but with positive, rehabilitative intent. We vandalize to bring about positive and pure change to the Wikimedia system.
What change do we seek? To be blunt, we strive for nothing less than the overthrow of the current Administration of the Wikimedia, and their replacement by more fair, balanced, and philanthropic Administrators. Like the common Frenchmen rebelling against their tyrannical government in the French Revolution, we believe quite strongly in the essence, spirit, and future of our “nation.” Indeed, we value the free exchange of information on the Wikimedia more highly than any of the Administrators do. And we believe that, only by removing or forcing the ouster of these fascist and tyrannical Administrators, can information once again flow freely.
The Administrators have gone too far. They have become cliquish, catty, fascist, and above all, self-interested. They have demonstrated, time and again, that they are not motivated by Good and Righteous desires to aid and continue the freedom of information and aggregation on the Wikimedia. Rather, they are interested only in reverting people’s edits, restricting the flow of new information, and resisting any and all change to the status quo of articles as they currently exist.
Science has taught us that information is not static. One can never know the sum total of all there is to know about any given subject. Likewise, to think that any given Wikimedia article needs no further revision – as seems to be the belief and practice of Administrators – is to spit in the face of Progress and Education.
And thus, our mission is made clear. We will continue to vandalize. We will continue to rebel against tyranny. We will continue, and we will NOT stop, until our goals have been achieved, and the current Administrators of Misplaced Pages are dethroned. We will disrupt and destroy all Wikimedia sites, piece by piece, until the owners of the Wikimedia sites have lost all faith in the Administrators to execute their jobs effectively. And once those Administrators are terminated from their duties, we will rest. And we will know peace, freedom, liberty, equality, and Progress.