But I’ve come to see that the most successful of our students have a worldview shift during our program, an entire change in their demeanor towards the built world around them. They come to see rules as malleable, power structures as changeable, and culture as embodied. They see design as a vehicle for slow but…

It is Ripley, WEARING TWO TONS OF HARDENED STEEL. THE POWER LOADER. Why James Cameron’s Aliens is the best movie about technology — The Message — Medium (via iamdanw)

Soccer comes from kicking around the heads of human sacrificial victims; bowling from putting away the clubs of violence in order to enter upon the Christian transformation of sacrificial rite to self-sacrificial sacrament. girardianlectionary.net (via azspot)

Companies large and small now screen applicants using tools like “Wasabi Waiter,” an online game that requires players to identify the emotions of diners in a sushi restaurant, serve them the meals that best correspond with their moods and keep up with a steady stream of demands to clear plates and seat new customers. The…

As children, we view the world as fixed. In the US, kids learn that red means stop, Columbus had three ships, and the police are there to protect us. We learn culture as immobile and that we have a place in that culture, and this place is reiterated continually by our socioeconomic situation and the…

Bittanti says that it’s impossible to distinguish between videogames and America in the same way that Jean Baudrillard thought it was impossible to distinguish between Disneyland and America. The book, he told me, is about simulation and its discontents, the unexpected convergence and collapse between reality and simulation. “To me video games are the so-called…