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Library of Babel
Library of Babel
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/ Mathias Fuchs: Diversity of Play
/ Mathias Fuchs: Diversity of Play Diversity of Play The early days when digital games were new, harmless and niche are long gone. Today’s games can simulate battlefields, predict disaster, and crash markets. We are faced with a diversity of play and the ubiquity of games, making them not only a popular medium, but the…
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<blockquote>To contrast with other similar design approaches, we think Design Fiction is a bit different from critical design [c.f. Dunne & Raby, Garnet Hertz], which is a bit more abstract and theoretical compared to our own interest in design happening outside of galleries or museums. Design Fiction is about exploring a future mundane. It tackles…
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<blockquote>We have largely eschewed the traditional academic channels of research papers, academic conference talks and the like. Producing evocative little pamphlets, fictional product catalogs, software that is quite counter to prevailing intuition about what software should be, little hardware devices that are designed to be used less rather than more — these are the kinds of…
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“The National Safety Transportation Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was Scaled Composite’s failure to consider and protect against the possibility that a single human error could result in a catastrophic hazard to the SpaceShipTwo vehicle,” the NTSB concluded. SpaceShipTwo mishap due to pilot error and company training oversight | Spaceflight Now…
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npr: In Helsinki, sports facilities pop up all over the place, sometimes in some pretty odd nooks and crannies. One bomb shelter hosts an archery club, another an underground swimming pool and an ice hockey rink. Though they hardly need it, there’s a national plan in Finland to get people to sit less. It reminds…
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the-paintrist: lostprofile: DAZZLE CAMOUFLAGE OF WORLD WAR I Modern art, wartime strategy and perceptual psychology converged during World War I, giving rise to dazzle camouflage. Unlike traditional camouflage, which attempted to decrease a ship’s visibility by painting it the same colors as it surroundings, dazzle’s skewed, asymmetric, clashing lines made impossible to determine a ship’s…
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Just because man’s need for tools is so obvious, we must guard ourselves against over-stressing the role of stone tools hundreds of thousands of years before they became functionally differentiated and efficient. In treating tool-making as central to early man’s survival, biologists and anthropologists for long underplayed, or neglected, a mass of activities in which…
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Moss and misunderstandings
smalllandmarks: I have not been unhappy for ten thousand years.During the day I laugh and during the night I sleep.My favourite cooks prepare my meals,my body cleans and repairs itself,and all my work goes well.—Leonard Cohen, from I Have Not Lingered In European Monasteries Some days I stare at a screen and some days I…
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PSA for my fellow white people
medusa-seduce-ya: cursethecosmos: castameresweaters: Latino/Latina: originating from the Carribean, South or Central America. Gender neutral term (in English) is usually written as latinx. Sentence: María was born in Ecuador, so she is Latina. Hispanic: Spanish-speaking. Sentence: José was born in Brazil, so he is NOT Hispanic, since his country’s official language is Portugese, but he IS considered…