Month: December 2012

  • Foucault’s and Heidegger’s arguments are not about the autonomous self, but relate to a particular engagement with being which is fundamentally pre-subjective and pre-ethical. In both cases, I will argue, care of the self concerns a certain openness within the closure of modern technologically conditioned experience; an openness that is resolutely indeterminate. This openness is…

  • new-aesthetic: “These techniques (and the many hundreds more published in computer vision journals every year) will only become more sophisticated and add new capacities as the More Pixels Law does its inevitable work in the coming decades. Further, applications which now seem infeasible due to limited camera or computational capacity will rapidly come within reach.…

  • new-aesthetic: “These techniques (and the many hundreds more published in computer vision journals every year) will only become more sophisticated and add new capacities as the More Pixels Law does its inevitable work in the coming decades. Further, applications which now seem infeasible due to limited camera or computational capacity will rapidly come within reach.…

  • My problem is with the designers – the ones responsible for the long, crappy history of Flash design. Flash design was by and large unsustainable, and it made the web a more broken and fragmented place. For years, designers felt that Flash freed them from the constraints of the web, and let them be more…

  • The shortage of professionals trained in data analysis and critical thinking is occurring at a pivotal moment. While leaders in all industries have the data at their fingertips, they lack the highly skilled workforce to connect the dots and advance their businesses and organizations to new heights. The Ohio State University and IBM partnership —…

  • But Mekas, it turns out, has never considered himself in conflict with traditional cinema. “We simply wanted to do something else that could exist alongside Hollywood, but they did not want to let us in. They had built walls around traditional cinema that could not be broken so we had to operate outside those walls…

  • co-mag: Snellire rapidamente una persona.

  • 8bitfuture: Photo: Wii U goes portable. A Japanese blogger is seen here playing the Wii U on a bullet train on the way to work. While not exactly meant as a portable console, certain games can be played directly on the gamepad, with the console able to be plugged into a power supply on the…

  • As the PlayStation (SNE), Wii, and Xbox (MSFT) lose market share to smartphones and tablets, video game developers face problems, too. Playing graphics-rich sports, shooter, and racing games on mobile touchscreens better equipped for Angry Birds can be deflating or nigh-impossible. Guitar Hero co-creator Charles Huang thinks he has the answer: supplement the mobile hardware…

  • emergentfutures: Android Dominates Outside of the United States This chart shows the smartphone operating system market share, based on sales in the 12 week period ending October 28, 2012. Full Story: Statista betamax vs vhs?