Category: words

  • kadist: Over on Art Slant Berlin there is an excellent piece on Harun Farocki‘s Serious Games, currently on view at the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart through July 13th.  AGITPROP: Harun Farocki’s Serious Games

  • comiccartography: 1:1 Scale Carol Lay Cartozia Tales #3 (cartozia)

  • Call For Presentations: Kickstarting the GO::DH Minimal Computing Working Group @ DH2014

    Call For Presentations: Kickstarting the GO::DH Minimal Computing Working Group @ DH2014 ***-_-_-_-_-_-*** Please share this widely as we would like as global a representation as possible ***-_-_-_-_-_-*** The GlobalOutlook::DigitalHumanities (GO::DH) Minimal Computing Working Group is looking to kickstart itself with a workshop at this year’s DH conference in Lausanne, Switzerland. We are looking to…

  • jordanzakarin: “The thing is, this community has been represented in very disrespectful ways, falling most of the time into the cliche, and without that complexity and diversity that it has.” – Diego Luna, on the representation of Latinos in Hollywood films. His Cesar Chavez biopic is the only studio release due out in 2014 about a…

  • scienceisbeauty: Bézier curves (linear, quadratic, cubic and quartic). Mesmerizing. Generalization (explicit definition):

  • Brave migraine face. No pain, just blinking lights. Can barely see to type. Just documenting. Maybe making art from it.

  • Mario Praz (1896-1982) was a historian of art and literature. Among literary scholars and art historians, he is best known for a book translated into English as “The Romantic Agony.” It is an erudite and sensible study of themes of death, sexual idiosyncrasy, Satanism, sadism and other horrors in romantic literature. In one passage Praz…

  • brucesterling: *The first web browser, released 19 years ago today  NCSA Mosaic predates Netscape 1.0, but Netscape helped popularize the nascent WWW at an incredible pace.

  • wired: fastcompany: Read more> An interesting weekend longread.

  • karaj: —fred moten and stefano harvey, the undercommons: fugitive planning and black study