February 2012
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“The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a...”
– J.M. Coetzee, Diary of a Bad Year (via Stuart Candy)
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“The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because...”
– Marshall McLuhan
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“Sospecho que el espacio, en realidad, no forma parte de nuestras preocupaciones...”
– Luis Moreno Mansilla (1959-2012)
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What to expect from me
In the vein of Tati’s volley at me with “Want part of your brain back?”, here’s the log of links that I shared during a Skype conversation that I had this morning. (This is usually how it goes.) I leave it up to you to try to find the thread (ha!) of the conversation, to guess who my victim was, and to decide how to answer the question “Are distractible people more...
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“Poets and artists live on frontiers. They have no feedback, only feedforward....”
– Marshall McLuhan (via Folkert Gorter)
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“[I]t’s a good thing to think about the child as long as you remember that the...”
– Margaret Mead
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“The beautiful thing about writing is it has no real respect for credentialism.”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates
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WatchBear 71 is an interactive film about grizzly bears from the National Film Board of Canada. For more information, watch this video introduction and the Bear 71 Installation Walkthrough. The project also has an iambear71 Tumblr and @iambear71 Twitter account. (Video via iambear71)
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“They’ll have to learn not to do what comes naturally, and I wonder. Maybe...”
– Bear 71, an interactive film about grizzly bears from the National Film Board of Canada
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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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Watch“What if we could change our view of the world with the flick of a switch? ‘Song of the Machine’ explores the possibilities of a new, modified – even enhanced – vision, where users can tune into streams of information and electromagnetic vistas currently outside of human vision.”
Song of the Machine, Superflux (more)
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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