February 2012
47 posts
“Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character....”
– Lists of Note: The Seven Blunders
In October of 1947, Mohandas Gandhi gave a piece of paper to his visiting grandson, Arun Gandhi, upon which was written the following list — a list he said contained “the seven blunders that human society commits, and that cause all the violence.”
“In 2002, the beer company Brewtopia in Australia started an open-source brewery...”
– Open source - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“In the early years of automobile development, a group of capital monopolists...”
– Think about this for a little while.
Open source - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“We must not continue to see technology and nature in opposition to one another...”
– Back to the Futurist: Liam Young | URBNFUTR
“I get the distinction — it’s kind of a signal/noise thing? Like it’s...”
– Max Read
The Ballad of @Horse_ebooks | Splitsider
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“If art is produced as an outcome of certain conditions (rather then simply an...”
– Art without Work? | e-flux
“some years ago I was looking at Matisse paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of...”
– Art without Work? | e-flux
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“Rather than creating discrete moments of exhibition and reception, the...”
– Dang. This is good.
Club Kids: The Social Life of Artists on Facebook « DIS Magazine
“if the ultimate goal of an artwork is to in some way transform the consciousness...”
– Club Kids: The Social Life of Artists on Facebook « DIS Magazine
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“The need to socially orient oneself has now been reversed from its normal...”
– This is important.
Club Kids: The Social Life of Artists on Facebook « DIS Magazine
“In my view, the real criticism of capitalism that is implied by the criticism of...”
– The Danger of Too Much Efficiency - NYTimes.com
“Prof. Morse’s Telegraph has already, during the first week of its operations,...”
– ‘Time and Space Has Been Completely Annihilated’ - Atlantic Mobile
“The Münchhausen Trilemma, also called Agrippa’s Trilemma, purports that it is...”
– Oh. Darn.
List of unsolved problems in philosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“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
