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reluctantconquistador: Day 220: Little animation I made on Flipnote of my brother’s (estebanfajardo) game because I was so excite yesterday. Background music of Anamanaguchi. This is awesome! (Source: http://reluctantconquistador.tumblr.com/)
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It just isn’t actually true that Silicon valley is an “ecosystem for the development of ‘disruptive technologies’ whose growth and success can be attributed to the incessant formation of a multitude of specialized, diverse entities that feed off, support and interact with one another,” to borrow a rather breathless quote from some starry-eyed urban researchers…
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Where next for media theory? I’m thankful to Geert Lovink for his recent provocation on this question. Lovink thinks we have entered a post-Snowden era of media. So called ‘new’ media is dead, just as God is dead. Or, to vary the frame of reference, the ebullient schizo era of anything could happen gave way…
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likeapairofbottlerockets: calling it now: the future is gonna involve a lot of dumb stuff on people’s faces
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hamykia: nenufair: Isn’t Spanish just beautiful Ojos de cordero degollado, I just realised don’t judge me
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Contrary to certain now popular narratives by latecomers, not everybody went gaga over ‘new media’ in that period, which stretches perhaps from the popularization of cyberpunk in 1984 to the death of the internet as a purely scientific and military media in 1995. There were plenty of experimental, critical and constructivist minds at work on…
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Like Ebert, you might consider Dead Poets Society “a collection of pious platitudes masquerading as a courageous stand in favor of something” and “shameless in its attempt to pander to an adolescent audience.” The thing is, though, if you’re a bookish 14-year-old girl, you haven’t yet seen a hundred “other stories in which the good…
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alexainslie: Honest, Brave, Compassionate
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Before we give doors and toasters sentience, we should decide what we’re comfortable with first
Before we give doors and toasters sentience, we should decide what we’re comfortable with first Well, as author and digital rights activist Cory Doctorow explained to me when I interviewed him last year, imagine an Arab Spring-type situation in a country with very cold winters, universal Nest thermostat adoption and a dictator with no ualms…
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Writing the Artist Statement
ninedotarts: We can’t tell you how often we come across artist statements that trytoo hard to be analytical, clever, academic or progressive. It’s so often, in fact, that the majority ofus artsy types forego reading statements entirely. Art critic Roberta Smith says, “I think the work of art, whatever form it takes, is the artist’s…