RafaelFajardo

Category: words

  • The architectural historian Iain Borden says the emergence of hostile architecture has its roots in 1990s urban design and public-space management. The emergence, he said, “suggested we are only republic citizens to the degree that we are either working or consuming goods directly. Ben Quinn in The Guardian. Anti-homeless spikes are part of a wider…

  • emergentfutures: 40 maps that explain the internet Paul Higgins: Really good collection Full Story: Vox

  • “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Nightingale and the Rose (via lapitiedangereuse)

  • nikitagale: ARE YOU A WOMAN-HATING MODERNIST? THEN EX MACHINA IS JUST THE FILM FOR YOU. #2OEDIPAL (at Arclight Cinemas Hollywood)

  • paperdaf: Makes U Think…

  • Internet.org: delivering poor Internet to poor people

    mostlysignssomeportents: Mark Zuckerberg’s Internet.org project bribes corrupt, non-neutral carriers in poor countries to exempt Facebook and other services of its choosing from their data-caps, giving the world’s poorest an Internet that’s been radically pruned to a sliver of what the rest of the world gets for free. Internet.org characterizes its goals as charitable and development-oriented.…

  • mutualassureddistraction: The Betrayal by Technology: A Portrait of Jacques Ellul

  • Artists are a type of worker. What makes our society different from those that came before is that now, because we are no longer hunter-gatherers or peasant farmers, if we want to eat and pay rent we have to go out and get jobs. What is the job of the artist? You might think that…

  • “Usually in Peru, our schools are like a jail,” says Innova founder Yzusqui Chessman. “But [Innova] schools . . . have big transparency, many colors, and bandwidth throughout.” Transparency and Wi-Fi for the middle class, while everyone else attends jail-like schools? Edutopia | Jacobin

  • It’s not surprising, then, that when Carlos Rodríguez-Pastor Persivale, the billionaire son of an elite Peruvian banking family, decided to expand his empire of restaurants and movie theaters by buying up a chain of for-profit English-language elementary schools, his first step was to contact IDEO and commission them to design everything: the buildings, the budget,…