January 2012
“if you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original....”
– (via andiechang)
“This is the road to God, withdrawing all projections, reconciling the opposites,...”
– Philip K. Dick, The Exegesis (via ubu507)
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“The schism between content creators and platforms like Kickstarter, Tumblr and...”
– Yancey Strickler, a founder of Kickstarter | The Danger of an Attack on Piracy Online - NYTimes.com (via courtenaybird)
“There as a study in which it comes out that thirty of the largest companies in...”
– Massachusetts Senate candidate ELIZABETH WARREN, on The Daily Show (via inothernews)
“I feel like there’s a red pill and a blue pill, and you can take the blue pill...”
– Tenured Professor Departs Stanford, Hoping to Teach 500,000 Students at Online Start-Up - The Chronicle of Higher Education (via davemorin)
Freud: the last great Enlightenment thinker →
Freud’s ideas are today not simply rejected as false. They are repudiated as being dangerous or immoral; the “gloomy mythology” of warring instincts is condemned as a kind of slander on the species, the fundamental nobility of which it is sacrilege to deny. To be sure, righteous indignation has informed the response to Freud’s thought from the beginning. But its new strength helps explain one...
“We believe that the next step in copying will be made from digital form into...”
– The Pirate Bay - Evolution: New Category (via bashford)
20 years?
(via un)
“Self-organized learning is a process where children in groups take on a topic or...”
– TED Blog | New TED Book asks: can changing how we teach make our kids smarter, more creative?
“When the web started, I used to get really grumpy with people because they put...”
– Neil Gaiman on Copyright, Piracy, and the Commercial Value of the Web (X)
“When another scholar worries that if one begins with data, one can “go...”
– The Digital Humanities and Interpretation - NYTimes.com, via Tom A. (via new-aesthetic)
Stanley Fish’s interpretation of a line in Milton in this piece really reminds me of KRS-One’s “officer/overseer” riff in “Sound Of Da Police”.
There are more useful things to say about this piece btw.
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Drumroll, please... Introducing iFixit.org |... →
minimalmac:
We have been traveling to developing countries in Asia and Africa, visiting e-waste scrapyards and small repair shops, meeting “fixers” who breathe new life into gadgets that the western world has tossed away, and photographing the journey. Part travelogue, part investigative reporting, part soapbox, iFixit.org promises only one thing: a clear-eyed, thoughtful look at global repair...
“The future will look very different as we strip the information-carrying...”
– The High Cost of Low Bandwidth by Bill Davidow (via poptech)
On pirates and piracy →
infoneer-pulse:
Mashups, which have been repeatedly attacked by the entertainment industry, are by no means a new art form; they’ve been central to creativity for years (related examples are embedded below). Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” incorporate a number of popular songs of the era, including the always popular “Cabbages and Beets drove me away from you,” in its entirety, along with “Get...
theavant-gardeplaylist asked: What program do you use to make your artwork?
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Danah Boyd - Cracking Teenagers’ Online Codes →
infoneer-pulse:
“Children’s ability to roam has basically been destroyed,” Dr. Boyd said in her office at Microsoft, where a view of the Boston skyline is echoed in the towers of books on her shelves, desk and floor. “Letting your child out to bike around the neighborhood is seen as terrifying now, even though by all measures, life is safer for kids today.”
Children naturally congregate on...
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Academy sounds alarm about fragility of digital... →
infoneer-pulse:
On the day that Sundance kicked off and Eastman Kodak filed for bankruptcy, the Motion Picture Academy threw a bucket of ice water on the digital filmmaking revolution.
Preserving movies is an ongoing issue for the entire industry, but a new report from the Academy warns that movies shot or finished digitally face a lifespan so short they can be lost even before they get...
“We do not use the terms “normal” or “abnormal”. All societies are rational and...”
– Gilles Deleuze in Capitalism: A Very Special Kind of Delirium (via hollovv)
“People cited violation of the First Amendment...
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- Neil deGrasse Tyson, New York, Dec. 19, 2006. “Letter to the Editor” New York Times published December 21, 2006 in the Read section”
“But this idea that knowledge can be separated from facts - that we can know...”
– Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: The Summers’ Tale (via infoneer-pulse)
“…making money from art is not a human right. It so happens that technological...”
– Jonathan Coulton (via azspot)
The Otolith Group →
The Otolith Group was founded in 2002 by Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar. The Turner Prize nominated artists, who live and work in London, are renowned for their videos, curatorial practice, writing, publications and development of discursive platforms for the close readings of documentary fictions.
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“The main reason we want to fund such startups is not to protect the world from...”
– YCRFS 9: Kill Hollywood (via infoneer-pulse)
“I don’t distinguish between magic and art.”
– Alan Moore (via nathanielstuart)
