February 2012
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“What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them,...”
– Jeanette Winterson, The Stone Gods (via Luke Neff)
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Politics of prefiguration
“In her book Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit uses the phrase “politics of prefiguration” to describe the kind of work that groups like the Albany Free School do. One tiny corner of the world—one small community, one co-op, one school—models a different way to run things, embodies principles we want to see more of: democracy, egalitarianism, compassion, creativity. “Activism, in this...
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“Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is the actually...”
– Dieter Rams (via Zeldman)
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“[F]or wonder is what the philosopher endures most; for there is no other...”
– Plato (via Hannah Arendt’s The Promise of Politics via Global Civ)
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Objects
This is an expanded version of a series that started with a spontaneous burst
of five tweets:
Object Ethnography Project
Migratory Objects
Significant Objects
Evocative Objects
Economic Objects
Object Annotation
A History of the World in Objects
Mysterious Objects
Transitional Objects
Dead Objects
Object Histories
Oobject
Object Cancers
To be updated here (perhaps) and elsewhere...
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“[A] train is an extraordinary bundle of relations because it is something...”
– Michel Foucault, “Of Other Spaces” (via Space Hardware, by Gary McQuiggin)
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“The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.”
– LeRoy Pollock, in a letter to his 16-year-old son Jackson, 1928
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January 2012
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“[A]t the core of knowledge’s new exaltation and transformation is a...”
– David Weinberger, David Weinberger (via Erin Kissane)
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“[A]n exploded, porous book whose every page could become an all-comprehending...”
– László Moholy-Nagy’s Bauhaus ideal of the book, as paraphrased by Jeffrey Schnapp and Adam Michaels in The Electric Information Age Book
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“[A] talented, dictatorial auteur will produce better work than polls, focus...”
– Mills Baker
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“[C]reative ideas must be understood as hypotheses about certain sorts of...”
– Mills Baker
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“[A] well-developed creative idea — a design, a song, a poem — is not an assembly...”
– Mills Baker
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“We need to start treating discovery, connection and sharing as creative acts.”
– an idea from Maria Popova via Matt Thompson in “5 provocative ideas sparked by women in media” (via bettyann)
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WatchWaves (Response to a Blog Post), by Daniel Anderson
“This is my response to the blog posting, The Digital Humanities and the Transcending of Mortality. See the mantra: you don’t study digital composing, you perform it.”
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“The fun part of research is finding what you aren’t looking for.”
– Erik Spiekermann
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“[W]ork to create small-is-beautiful alternatives.”
– Alan Jacobs
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“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is...”
– —Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
“May we fight the things that reduce us for the company and truth that make life big.” —Frank Chimero
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Is Twitter what Rayuela tried to be?
Two brief exchanges over the course of the past week have left me with the question above.
@litherland [15 Jan 2012]:
I’m fascinated by the idea of a “book” not as a discrete object but as motley events dispersed across time and space.
@rogre [15 Jan 2012]
@litherland Sounds a lot like @somebadideas on “life today” (due to social media): twitter.com/rogre/status/1… Is Twitter the...
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“A game is not a story, it’s an emotion, it’s how we feel after a...”
– David Calvo (via Nicolas Nova)
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“Marcel Proust called reading a “miracle of communication in the midst of...”
– Susan Cain
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WatchThe Faustian Bargain (Trailer), Born to Learn
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