December 2010
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I don't know
Q. Is the pupil to be molded, incised, or impressed? A. I don’t know. Q. Does wisdom shape up in us as ash, fixed by a dry heat? Or do we, soused with an intoxicating liquor, lick it from the purple page? A. I don’t know.
- Yara Flores
“ I think it’s hard to remember some times, but important to remember, that firewood and potatoes are true wealth and that money is just green paper, and that all of us, no matter how rich or poor, are still just working for food.”
-Earl Mitchell and Penny Savage, in the Small Farmer’s Journal
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WatchYeah, dissections are awesome
Just call me Alexandra “Too much information” Boyd-Clowes
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“If I am not worth your making an exception for me even in some STUPID details...”
– Wittgenstein to G.E. Moore
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The soft tyranny of interactivity
You see it everywhere today. The tell-tale sign is the positive feedback loop. For example, you buy things with your credit card, presumably to satisfy needs or desires in your life. Needs, desires: you purchase at your soft points. That visceral act is actually an interaction: you have just participated in a data-mining operation. Your input feeds a marketing analysis apparatus, and that feeds...
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The Deleuzian Philosophy of Julian Assange →
mxmlsm:
“The first thing that strikes the reader is the overlap of vast theoretical speculation with extremely down-to-earth observations. Here’s a baroque chunk of high ‘Assangian’ theory:
We will use connected graphs as way to harness the spatial reasoning ability of the brain to think in a new way about political relationships.
The complexity of this is clear for all to see – indeed, the...
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full lunar eclipse
it was awesome
"Don't be offended." →
maddieloveskpop:
Here’s how the game goes: Someone makes a music video, or a piece of art, a remark, or anything, really, that invokes imagery that could be construed as culturally offensive. If you are playing the game, you make a comment (usually on a website, in response to someone’s posting it) that contains…
Out of my two options to either ‘like’ or ‘dislike’...
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Vertical Farming →
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Topology →
m1ck:
“the strange, unworldly bonds that allow cesium atoms to stick together in triplets should allow much more complex objects to form too. In fact, he says we’re on the verge of discovering a brand new form of matter governed by an entirely new branch of physics.”
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Plant Life Support System inside a university lab
urbanfoodproduction:
This is my current project at Concordia University. We’re getting off to a good start with a passive watering system and modular container beds. The progress blog is at http://plss.posterous.com
cheers!
Is it weird to reblog a post about your own work? I’m just getting started with this tumblr thing. But yeah, this is me and my boyfriend’s project. Check it...
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