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emergentfutures: Paul Higgins: Not sure that is true Martin. I agree that our social environment is taking a role in making those decisions but we are also seeing a significant rise in self tracking and information systems doing the same. I can imagine a system like this tied into a self tracking and a social…
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iandeleonarts: My highlights from the 2013 CreativeTime Summit: 1. INVINCIBLE discussing the colonizing effects of speculative real estate, and proposing speculative fiction as a way of decolonizing from such effects 2. Vito Acconci Studio’s proposal for a post-9/11 WTC = building so full of holes, nobody would bother blowing it up 3. Chen Shaoxiong’s proposal…
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Lou Reed: the man rock music was waiting for
kateoplis: “When a famous rock star dies, there’s a natural tendency among fans and journalists alike to overstate the late figure’s importance: the former out of grief, the latter because it makes better copy. In Lou Reed’s case, that’s almost impossible to do, just as it’s almost impossible to imagine what rock music might sound like…
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haydiroket: R.I.P
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naomijade: Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson by Annie Leibovitz, Coney Island, New York 1995 via @iman_jorgeno
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The modern university characterized by the narcissistic consumerist smorgasbord approach to life and our general contemporary ethos fully shaped by the triumph of the therapeutic, offers less and less in terms of the permanent things and more and more in terms of the momentarily relevant. Humanities as a Way of Knowing (via azspot)
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Remarkably, Jobs had to be talked into having Apple build a phone at all. It had been a topic of conversation among his inner circle almost from the moment Apple introduced the iPod in 2001. The conceptual reasoning was obvious: consumers would rather not carry two or three devices for e-mail, phone calls and music…
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The second iPhone prototype in early 2006 … incorporated a touch-screen and OS X, but it was made entirely of brushed aluminum. Jobs and Jonathan Ive, Apple’s design chief, were exceedingly proud of it. But because neither of them was an expert in the physics of radio waves, they didn’t realize they created a beautiful…
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permanentbutter: MARK A REYNOLDS – from the workbooks