Peter interviewed by IF

Our own Peter Rojas sat down with PSFK's IF pub to help shed some light on living the life of professional blogging,
gadgets, and, naturally, critical theory and Situationist International. Here's an excerpt to whet your appetite:

So what makes you want to do this? What makes someone so dedicated to blogging about technology?

When I was younger my passion was for critical theory. It's something that I studied at college and even wrote my
dissertation on Guy Debord and the Situationist International, Debord wrote a book called The Society of the
Spectacle. They were a Sixties group that wanted to create radical political change through subversive and
agitational art. It's a lot more complex than that, but needless to say, it was perfect for a disaffected, cerebral
twenty-year-old. One thing I've realized over the past few years, especially with the internet, is that tech is
effecting social change in a way politics hasn't been able to lately. Take one example: Guy Debord and the
Situationists were strongly against intellectual property and created art that challenged existing notions of
intellectual property, and since then there have been plenty of theorists and activists trying to change put forward
new ideas of intellectual property, but they weren't accomplishing much — then Napster came along and made instant
change that no political or corporate effort could do. Napster put intellectual property at the center of an
international debate and almost overnight changed people's opinion on and use of intellectual property forever.