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As universities are beaten into the shapes dictated by business, so language is suborned to its ends. We have all heard the robotic idiom of management, as if a button had activated a digitally generated voice. Like Newspeak in Nineteen Eighty-Four, business-speak is an instance of magical naming, superimposing the imagery of the market on…
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Literature’s business model explained, with special reference to the age of the Internet
mostlysignssomeportents: What is particularly crucial to understand is that books were not dragged kicking and screaming into each new area of capitalism. Books not only are part and parcel of consumer capitalism, they virtually began it. They are part of the fuel that drives it. The growth of the chain model in books offered everyone…
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reluctantconquistador: Day 219: I’M SO PROUD OF MY PINK-TIED, VERY-HAIRED BRO AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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directedbychuckjones: The many faces of Ralph Phillips. Key pose, layout, and character study drawings by Chuck Jones for his 1957 short animated film, “Boyhood Daze”.
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omg omg omg omg omg omg!!!!!!!!! They won!!!!!
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my son is up for a BAFTA Games Award. He is in the Ones To Watch category, TeamOK, and their game is Chambara. I’m on the edge of my seat and the live stream hasn’t started yet. You can follow on twitch.tv/bafta if you like.
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hyperallergic: Victor Moscoso picked up color theories while studying with Josef Albers at Yale University in the late 1950s, and soon turned that abstract harmony into a psychedelic friction. Pairing intense hues in a way that almost shakes your eyes — a “vibration” of colors — he majorly influenced the aesthetic of the acid-hued 1960s…
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nprplays: From KQED: In Violent Video Games, the Gameplay Sends its Own Message By Carolyn Petit We like to think that games that feature violence as a core mechanic can be critical of violence, and in fact a piece was recently published on Paste Magazine called 10 Violent Games That Comment on Violence. (Hotline Miami is…
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thegetty: A book of chess problems from 14th-century northern France.