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Because Apple was “disruptive,” anything deemed disruptive now somehow borrows from Apple’s cachet. “Disruption” has become another meaningless buzzword appropriated by overzealous cheerleaders of the entrepreneurial clique they aspire to someday belong to. And look… every once in a while, someone does come up with a really cool and radical game-changing idea: Vaccines, the motorcar, radio, television, HBO,…
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The artist has been called the “antennae” of the race. The artistic conscience is focused on the psychic and social implications of technology. The artist builds models of the new environments and new social lives that are the hidden potential of new technology. Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews by Marshall Mcluhan
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(via Sun Yuan and Peng Yu’s Fallen Angel – artnet News)
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You can read this as just a local earthquake caused by the larger tectonic shifts of the publishing industry. But art publishing has its own peculiar dynamics. One of these is that a great, great many art titles are vanity projects, backed by a rich person for the same kinds of reasons that rich people…
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SJO -> BOG -> NVA
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GPOY Sala de espera BOG
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SJO -> BOG -> NVA
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It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life. Gloria Steinem (via nationalbook)
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“The Unsafe House” by Bruce Sterling
brucesterling: https://medium.com/matter/the-unsafe-house-96151f0b746f The narco pulled three steel thermoses out of his desk. The flasks were the size and shape of mortar rounds. He popped the tops and decanted a taste from each into three fancy Chinese porcelain cups. “You’re risking your career to buy the best coffee left in this world,” said the narco, blinking…