operation. Factor, like his uncle, was a front man, his art collecting and philanthropy likely financed by laundered money.
Caption: Monte Factor Men's Store, Beverly Hills, 1947. Designed by Alvin Lustig. Photo by Julius Shulman.
Figure te…Many other political crimes in which involvement by high officials is suspected have gone uninvestigated or unpunished. Examples of suspected SCADs include fabricated attacks on U.S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964 (Ellsberg, 2002, pp. …
Robert F. Kennedy
politician · 2 mentions across 1 reading
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Robert F. Kennedy appears only in passing reference within these course excerpts, surfacing obliquely through a discussion of suspected political crimes and state actors rather than through direct engagement with his work or ideas. The readings invoke the period of his involvement in government (the 1960s Gulf of Tonkin incident) as part of a broader critique of uninvestigated political crimes and the opacity of state power—themes relevant to understanding how institutional actors shape technological and information systems. His presence here seems to anchor a historical moment when trust in official narratives began fracturing, a context that informs contemporary anxieties about AI, surveillance, and institutional authority that the seminar addresses.
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