May 2013
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The Mind-opening Team
Bluebeard is my favorite Vonnegut novel. I’ve only referenced it on this Tumblr once before, but now Matt Jones posted a quote from it today, one that I’ve kept tucked away in a bookmark, and one that speaks to how change happens.
Paul Slazinger has had all his clothes and writing materials brought here. He is working on his first volume of non-fiction, to which he has given this...
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“Being a good mom, being a good dad, being a good neighbor – these things are...”
– Randall Szott (goes well with Charlie Loyd)
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“[W]hen profound social transformation does occur… it’s likely to take an...”
– David Graeber
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“Afterwards, we came to refer to certain types of accomplishments as “black...”
– Jay Barnson (via Allen)
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“People don’t go online to become someone else, they go online and the network...”
– Quinn Norton
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“All cities are artificial to some extent, but LA isn’t set on top of its...”
– Dan Houser
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April 2013
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“The emancipation of both nature and the human imagination depends first on the...”
– James Corner (via Mary Ann Reilly)
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“At night we see less of what is intended and more of what is there.”
– Charlie Loyd is at it again. This time he rounds out an already superb issue of Contents Magazine with “The Garden”.
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School for Poetic Computation
My friend Jen Lowe recently announced the School for Poetic Computation.
Our motto is: more poems less demos.
While theirs is a specific craft, the mission statement of SfPC has wide applicability to all places of learning. For example, in the following paragraph, substitute writer with any other creative role.
We are interested in craft, and the idea that every writer needs space and...
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“Fuera de la ética, entiendo que las opiniones de un hombre suelen ser...”
– Jorge Luis Borges
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Encapsulated Universes
“Think about it this way. We have 7,000 languages. Each of these languages encompasses a world-view, encompasses the ideas and predispositions and cognitive tools developed by thousands of years of people in that culture. Each one of those languages offers a whole encapsulated universe. So we have 7,000 parallel universes, some of them are quite similar to one another, and others are a lot...
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“People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly...”
– Raoul Vaneigem (previously, but reminded again today by Audrey Watters)
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March 2013
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WatchTo be applied beyond architecture into any and every field: Subject, Theory, Practice: An Architecture of Creative Engagement, Adam Nathaniel Furman and Marco Ginex (via Chris Berthelsen)
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“The best way to resist a monolithic institution or corporation is not with a...”
– Rebecca Solnit (via Selin Jessa)
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Near-universal literacy sans presses, sans...
My kids are frequently asked something like this: “If you don’t go to school, then how will you learn?” We, as a society, have forgotten that learning predated schools. We have forgotten that human literacy is not the invention of our schooling system.
Iceland never had any bookshops between the sixteenth century and the mid-nineteenth. It also had no schools. Yet by the end...
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