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wolfliving: RAM House by PROKOSS + Space Caviar RAM House is a domestic prototype that explores the home’s response to a new definition of privacy in the age of sentient appliances and signal based communication. As the space of the home becomes saturated by “smart” devices capable of monitoring their surroundings, the role of the…
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Banham’s geeky enthusiasm for ducting and electrical services enables him to propose a parallel history of architecture according to which the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast (1903), despite its outmoded, castellated styling, was “far more pioneering than anything that had been designed by Walter Gropius” because it was the first building to include a form…
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Terrified feds try to bar Bunnie Huang from testifying at Xbox jailbreaking trial
mostlysignssomeportents: Bunnie “Chumby” Huang, whose Hacking the Xbox is a reverse-engineer’s bible, has been asked to testify at the trial of Anaheim’s Matthew Crippen, who faces three years in prison for jailbreaking Xbox 360s (that is, modding them so that they could run software that Microsoft hadn’t authorized). But federal prosecutors have asked the judge…
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Due June 1 | The Retro-Futurism of Cuteness (Punctum Books) | Renaissance Studies
Due June 1 | The Retro-Futurism of Cuteness (Punctum Books) | Renaissance Studies cutestudies: Wan-Chuan Kao and Jen Boyle will edit a book of academic essays on cuteness. Deadline for proposals is coming up on June 1, 2015!
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10 Print with @_stunned at Media Archeology Lab
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Having an epistemological relationship with reality means being a critical examiner of your experience, questioning and interpreting you life and education rather than merely walking through them. Paulo Freire (via kunsthandwerk)
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Correa for &&&: Alex, I’m interested to see how philosophy as such has a certain take about the ways that more conventional art has been transcribed into the realm of the Internet; the vast majority of art is produced in an analogue way and thus becomes digital. Galloway: One of the things I’m trying to…
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In other words, Humanities Computing (and its successor, Digital Humanities) has focused on using computational tools to further humanities research, and not to study the effects of computation as a humanities question. A Letter to the Humanities: DH Will Not Save You – Hybrid Pedagogy rafaelfajardo: I added the part in parenthesis above for clarity.
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But “digital humanities” in the guise of “humanities computing,” “big data,” “topic modelling,” “object oriented ontology” is not going to save the humanities from the chopping block. It’s only going to push the humanities further over the precipice. Because these methods alone make up a field which is simply a handmaiden to STEM. Think about…