January 2012
December 2011
“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making...”
– http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2011/12/my-new-year-wish.html (via neil-gaiman)
Frontiers through the Ages
dbreunig:
Water, 1400
Land, 1840
Gold, 1850
Wire, 1880
Air, 1900
Celluloid, 1920
Plastic, 1950
Space, 1960
Silicon, 1980
Networks, 1990
Data, 2000
“Intrinsic motivations come from within. As Daniel Pink explained in his...”
– The Overjustification Effect « You Are Not So Smart (via hoodablah)
WatchFan Drawing Machine (by cameron zotter)
WatchAlphabet Word (by cameron zotter)
Wonderful little bit of poetry.
“My choice [for the most important important event of 2011] is the introduction...”
– Jeff Sharlet in The Year That Was – 38 writers and thinkers each select the most important event of 2011 (via curiositycounts)
Technoccult: Acedia: The ADHD of the Middle Ages →
technoccult:
John Plotz writes for The New York Times:
By some miracle, you set aside a day to tackle that project you can’t seem to finish in the office. You close the door, boot up your laptop, open the right file and … five minutes later catch yourself thinking about dinner. By 10 a.m., you’re…
karaj: disassembled and disaggregated 2 →
hysteriarama:
“One version of psychoanalysis will say that the definition of mental health would be the capacity to tell a coherent narrative. From another psychoanalytic point of view, that would be precisely the problem. I think both things are true. People who have suffered ruptured,…
“When you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than...”
– _why, (via David Tate (via robertogreco)
“They made a fuss about scientific polling, for sure, but the data has always...”
– The Home of Skilluminati Research // Skilluminati Research
“Swaraj can mean generally self-governance or “self-rule”, and was...”
– Swaraj - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Book Review - Art & Activism in the Age of... →
The New Flesh: sonofapritch replied to your post:... →
workandentropy:
sonofapritch replied to your post: sonofapritch replied to your photo: So I went to…
should I read Tiqqun?
There are parts of it where it falls a bit short and there are parts where it is pretty interesting. Their attempts to reappropriate the term “civil war” are a little…
“like many others before me, i propose that instead the goal is to lose one’s...”
– j. halberstam, the queer art of failure (via ibik23)
“Think about the marks you want to make on the paper in front of you… the ones...”
– Jillian Tamaki (via steve-kim)
hollovv:
bbcity replied to your post: ]]>matryoshhka replied to your post: I need to go…
I’m sorry, did you say you like Hegel?
I’m one of those people who likes reading things he’ll probably never agree with. Hence why I like reading Kant, as well. I like finding the little spaces others fill with assumptions.
I can relate. I read a book by Frank Luntz earlier this year.
...
“Software is eating the world.”
– Marc Andreessen: Predictions for 2012 (and beyond) | Digital Media - CNET News
“Now a particularly ironic fact has come to light — it appears that IP addresses...”
– DailyTech - Congress Plugs Anti-Piracy Legislation By Day, Pirates Porn by Night (via robot-heart-politics)
“But casual photographers rarely developed this type of eye, because they just...”
– Clive Thompson on the Instagram Effect | Magazine (via iamdanw)
DROP OUT. HANG OUT. SPACE OUT.: The phrase... →
The phrase ‘speculative realism’ is no longer beloved by everyone it describes, and may be used less often in the future. I still find it to be an effective term, one that draws wide attention to a fairly diverse set of philsophical programmes by pointing accurately to key similarities among…
“The human brain tends to think along pre-determined linear thought pathways....”
– Project M - Thinking Wrong since 2003 (via wreckandsalvage)
A field recording from last Summer.
Just sent this track below to this http://turbulence.org/networked_music_review/2011/11/02/call-for-powerfield-compilation-3/
Concept of the compilation is
“Recordings are wanted for the third edition of the Power/field compilation. This series is dedicated to recordings made “in the field” with processing on-site - i.e., pedals, laptops, or strange acoustic phenomena in the...
“I knew that cyberspace was exciting, but none of the people I knew who were...”
– Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 211, William Gibson (via hirmes)
Free Online Graph Paper / Grid Paper PDFs →
“I do not believe making money in order to consume goods is mankind’s sole...”
– Bill Hicks (via disconnectedreality)
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If...”
– How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later Phillip K. Dick
“There are personal social networks (Facebook and Twitter) and there are business...”
– Coursekit Aims To Overhaul How Teachers Run Their Classrooms | Co.Design (via csessums)
“I know better now than ever that wealth deranges. It disconnects you from the...”
– John Hodgman (via azspot)
“In footage from that time, KTVU’s man on the scene looks into the camera with a...”
– Proto YouTube: How 1970s Video Collectives Anticipated Our Strange Internet - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic (via iamdanw)
“The Libertine may put on an act of trying to convince and persuade; he may even...”
– Gilles Deleuze, The Language of Sade and Masoch (via hollovv) 