December 2011
21 posts
“Gaming (like, say, tweeting) doesn’t have the same distance between medium and...”
– Rhizome | Big Reality
“I can only say that those who choose to argue in prose, even if it is very good...”
– Peter Hitchens (Christopher Hitchens’s brother)
Zondervan Blog: Quitting the Ghastly Circus: Reflections on the Late Christopher Hitchens, His Brother Peter’s Memoir, and Religious Rage
“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click...”
– This Tech Bubble Is Different - BusinessWeek
“Our aesthetic judgements are really complicated. While Rembrandt was an...”
– How Does the Brain Perceive Art? | Wired Science | Wired.com
“Here’s a thought experiment: Everyone over age 12 when YouTube launched in...”
– No Copyright Intended - Waxy.org
“Based on these observations and interviews with the zookeepers, Osvath thinks...”
– Chimpanzee collects ammo for “premeditated” tourist-stoning : Not Exactly Rocket Science
“I am not going to light my hair on fire. I am not going to sign those silly...”
– Jon Huntsman (via theatlantic)
Can you imagine a presidential campaign where two adults have a serious debates about real things? Me neither.
Why Is Art So Damned Expensive? →
The uselessness of art makes any spending on it especially potent: buying a yacht is a tiny bit like buying a rowboat, and so retains a taint of practicality, but buying a great Picasso is like no other spending. Olav Velthuis, a Dutch sociologist who wrote Talking Prices, the best study of what art spending means, compares the top of the art market to the potlatches performed by the American...
“No medium has ever survived the indifference of 25 year olds.”
– Clay Shirky on newspapers, but he could be talking about a lot of things.
Institutions, Confidence, and the News Crisis « Clay Shirky
“people inside institutions tend to confuse the two, to believe their institution...”
– Institutions, Confidence, and the News Crisis « Clay Shirky
