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christopherschreck: This Is The Way Your Leverage Lies: The Seth Siegelaub Papers as Institutional Critique “This interactive exhibition examines Siegelaub’s brief but deeply influential career as gallery owner, independent curator, publisher, event facilitator, and seminal figure in the experimental and anti-establishment Conceptual art movement of the 1960s and 1970s. His curatorial work took place both in physical…
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…become readers of any and everything: newspapers, magazines, Harlequin romances, detective stories, as well as novels and plays and poems. For reading is itself a moral act. As George Will once said, there is more imaginative life to be found in reading any cheap thriller than in watching the most sophisticated film. He is not…
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notational: I spend most of my day and most of my night staring at this rectangle of light. All the images, all the text, all the links are simply marginalia. At it’s center is colored light. To become some kind of discarnate angel… Well as a human this might be some kind of disease. Was…
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To play at being the hero is to acknowledge we will never be one, a submission to the structure of the world outside the magic circle. Mike Thomsenhttp://thenewinquiry.com/essays/reign-in-drool/ (via notgames)
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notational: josh-dangit: An animation I made for my New Art Genres course. This is a rough copy I made to practice using objects and functions. The program can be run and tweaked using the source code here: http://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/118751 A few key features: The car moves slightly up and down based on a sine function, and its…
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Higher education cannot be decoupled from what Jacques Derrida calls a democracy to come, that is, a democracy that must always “be open to the possibility of being contested, of contesting itself, of criticizing and indefinitely improving itself.” Within this project of possibility and impossibility, critical pedagogy must be understood as a deliberately informed and…
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The American university has become the final stage of the most all encompassing initiation rite the world has ever known. No society in history has been able to survive without ritual or myth, but ours is the first which has needed such a dull, protracted, destructive, and expensive initiation into its myth. The contemporary world civilization is also the first one which has found it necessary to rationalize its fundamental initiation ritual in the name of education. We cannot begin a reform of education unless we first understand that neither individual learning nor social equality can be enhanced by the ritual of schooling. We cannot go beyond the consumer society unless we first understand that obligatory public schools inevitably reproduce such a society, no matter what is taught in them.
eexplorations: Ivan Illich
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Who Built That Video Game?
Who Built That Video Game? newyorker: Michael Thomsen looks at the outsourcing boom in the video-game industry: http://nyr.kr/1emqPs2 “Simple games like Brain Training, Harvest Moon, and Super Monkey Ball are harder to sell on consoles now that cheaper (or free) variants have emerged for smartphones, tablets, and Facebook….
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emergentfutures: Robots Can’t End Amazon’s Labor Woes Because They Don’t Have Hands The holidays should be a celebratory season for Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer. Instead, the company is facing conflict and tragedy over the work done inside its distribution centers, the massive warehouses where the logistics of holiday package delivery are executed with…
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People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous. Clifford Geertz (via anthrocentric)