February 2012
17 posts
Others’ pictures are more interesting than those we can make.
– In Digital Age, Sourcing Images Is as Legitimate as Making Them | Raw File | Wired.com
Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still...
– Brainstorming Doesn’t Really Work : The New Yorker
scientific advances have led to a situation where all the remaining problems are...
– Brainstorming Doesn’t Really Work : The New Yorker
the raison d’être of a college is to nourish a world of intellectual culture;...
– What Is College For? - NYTimes.com
The next edition of the São Paulo Biennial will focus on “the...
– 30th São Paulo Biennial, 2012
Serious question: Isn’t this just another way of saying “everything”?
CNBC’s Zac Bissonnette recently wrote to me saying that what he hates about...
– Weird art-valuation justifications of the day, Sarah Thornton edition | Felix Salmon
Act Two: The Post-Apocalyptic Hell-Scape
This is the part of Detroit...
– A DIY Kit For Making A Detroit Documentary | Changing Gears
Data” has become the default word used to describe the constantly generated,...
– The Dilemma of Being a Cyborg - NYTimes.com
But the novelty of vicarious participation in emotional life always contained...
– The Truth Is Accidental < PopMatters
January 2012
34 posts
In times when the exchange with the world largely takes place on the Internet,...
– 046: Boris Groys: Google: Words beyond Grammar, Documenta 13
Love this guy. “The struggle for a utopian ideal of the free flow of information—the free migration of liberated words through the totality of social space,” is the best definition of Google I’ve ever read.
I guess to make a box that’s a joy to open, you have to open a lot of boxes....
– We used to build cathedrals, now we open boxes.
Apple Packing Is So Good Because They Employ A Dedicated Box Opener | Gizmodo UK
How do you kill the movie and TV industries? Or more precisely (since at this...
– YCRFS 9: Kill Hollywood
imaginaryimageblog:
Rick Ross smelling Yankee Candles at a Cracker Barrel
Works of art are just ways to pay attention to different things, and to...
– The Believer - Interview with Laurie Anderson
So you may be like, “Um, I’m an artist of the minimalist school, and so I go to...
– The Believer - Interview with Laurie Anderson
Criticism is doubt informed by curiosity and a deep knowledge of a discipline...
– On Criticism, Cynicism & Sharpening Your Gut Instinct :: Tips :: The 99 Percent
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1 trillion – The number of video playbacks on YouTube.
140 – The number of...
– Internet 2011 in numbers | Royal Pingdom
By observing how popular the same song became in different worlds, we could...
– The Myth of Common Sense: Why The Social World Is Less Obvious Than It Seems « Freakonomics
What liberals have never understood about Obama is that he practices a...
– Andrew Sullivan: How Obama’s Long Game Will Outsmart His Critics - The Daily Beast
Here’s what I like about this guy. Long game.
There is, we recognize, a historical danger here. Someday, the record of this...
– Will Brand
Hirsts Spotted at Gagosian
Authenticity is a paltry standard by which to appraise an idea or a work of art...
– Leon Wieseltier, Against Identity (via austinkleon)
The problem, though, is that while I can appreciate YouTube videos on the basis...
– The Uncanny Valley of “Electrocuted Squirrel”
It’s too often assumed that if you want to talk about architecture, then...
– Geoff Manaugh, BLDG BLOG Book
MythBuster Adam Savage: SOPA Could Destroy the... →
wilwheaton:
Right now Congress is considering two bills—the Protect IP Act, and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)—that would be laughable if they weren’t in fact real. Honestly, if a friend wrote these into a piece of fiction about government oversight gone amok, I’d have to tell them that they were too one-dimensional, too obviously anticonstitutional.
Make no mistake: These bills aren’t...