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Nietzsche says that Socrates took apart the master’s house with the master’s tools.
mayhap: “What happened when that happened?”
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Burglary is about getting something that you want that’s guarded by architecture. I realized over the years that while that architects thinks they are the only ones thinking about…built space. But the burglar rethinks the architectural environment in an interesting way, unpuzzling how you get from A to B. If you start pulling on the…
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theantidote: Roland Barthes, born 12 November 1915, died 26 March 1980 Seven Quotes Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive. To know that one does not write for the other,…
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A designer’s work is not only about how the things look, but also their behaviors in response to interaction, and the adjustments they make between their fixed states. In fact, designing the way elements adapt and morph in the in-between moments is half of your work as a designer. You’re crafting the interstitials. Frank Chimero…
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(via Cumbia: The Musical Backbone Of Latin America : Alt.Latino : NPR) this, just this.
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In other words, the traveling salesman problem grows considerably more complex when you actually have to think about the happiness of the salesman. And, not only do you have to know when he’s unhappy, you have to know if your model might make him unhappy. Unhappy Truckers and Other Algorithmic Problems – Issue 3: In…
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seedtoshirt: Remember the last image? That was me (@kainazamaria/NPR) cutting the intro to our PLANET MONEY MAKES A T-SHIRT website. Well, we now have a trailer and it’s pretty sweet! We’ll have the full story Dec. 2: planetmoney.com/shirt (Music: “Mirrors” by the Crocodiles) (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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You know, Lev Manovich, in his “The Poetics of Augmented Space: Learning from Prada,” describes Lars Spuybroek’s 1993 Water Pavilion like this: “Its continuously changing surfaces illustrate the key effect of a computer revolution: substitution of every constant by a variable.” He’s talking about architecture, but the point is just as true of anything that’s…