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After the Shock Is Gone | Postmodern Times by Eric Felten
In his 1962 book “The Theory of the Avant-Garde” Renato Poggioli observed that “Like any artistic tradition, no matter how antitraditional it may be, the avant-garde also has its conventions.” The most conventional of modernist conventions has been the need to shock and offend, doing so, as the lingo has it, by “transgressing boundaries.” But…
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Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. We have seen the future, and the future is ours. César Chávez (via crookedindifference)
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playhouse by phoyo – freebies
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The Chumby Hacker Board is a cool single board Linux computer that has much of the same hardware as the famous Chumby One. It’s great for people who are experienced with Linux and want to have the power of a microcomputer with audio and video output while at the same time getting all the peripherals…
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Policy Brief: Game Changer: Investing in Digital Play to Advance Children’s Learning and Health by Ann My Thai et al. | June 2009 | View Bio DOWNLOAD: Executive Summary | Report Children as young as 4 are immersed in a new gaming culture, but many parents, educators, and health professionals, concerned over violence, sexual content,…
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Your point with the Viridian Design movement, that the best way to rewire culture and thought is by hacking design, made great sense, and Viridian succeeded in drawing designers and futurists to the problem of global warming and accelerating global awareness of the potential problem, but it was hard to imagine the backlash. Global warming’s…