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For example, it is relatively easy to stop saying “I,” but that does not mean that you have gotten away from the regime of subjectification; conversely, you can keep on saying ‘I,’ just for kicks, and already be in another regime in which personal pronouns function only as fictions. Signifiance and interpretation are so thick-skinned,…
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The super-specialisation required by an ever-expanding knowledge base does have consequences, beyond mere spats over academic funding. Public health administrators know little about medicine; postgraduates in science studies or bioethics often have very little training in science; geneticists might never have seen a living example of the animal whose genes they study; liberal arts graduates…
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christopherschreck: click HERE to listen to a recording of Marcel Duchamp reading “The Creative Act” at the Convention of the American Federation of the Arts in Houston TX in 1957 Here’s the transcription: “Let us consider two important factors, the two poles of the creation of art: the artist on the one hand, and on…
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karmakarmanyc: Germano Celant, Art Povera “This book is a precarious and contingent document and lives hazardously in an uncertain artistic-social situation.” Praeger/Gabriele Mazzotta, New York/Milan, 1969 First Edition 8.4 x 9 inches $500 PURCHASE
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Everything was on the table for the layout of the ten buttons; the researchers’ only objective was to find the configuration that would be as user-friendly, and efficient, as possible. So they ran tests. They experimented. They sought input. (via The 17 Designs That Bell Almost Used for the Layout of Telephone Buttons – Megan…
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Caffeine skin patches, akin to nicotine patches, have been on the market for a little while, and feedback I found so far is benign. Yu and Soni also promise that the absorption through the skin into the blood will be more gradual, leading to lower highs and higher lows than most stimulant products. That does…
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Colombia’s farmers’ strikes are into their 10th day as roads remained closed across the countryside. The crisis shows no sign of abating, as rice farmers and oil workers joined the protest, and food shortages hit the capital, Bogota. Serious questions are being asked about the Santos government’s ability to govern a country now in open…
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every technology that makes the iPhone a smartphone owes its vision and funding to the state: the Internet, GPS, touch-screen displays, and even the voice-activated smartphone assistant Siri all received state cash. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency bankrolled the Internet, and the CIA and the military funded GPS. So, although the United States…
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cinoh: Itten, Johannes (1888-1967) – 1919-20 Tape Ball Color Space (Itten-Archive, Zurich, Switzerland) by RasMarley on Flickr. Tape Ball Color Space, Itten, Johannes (1888-1967)
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bookporn: A Hero: The Librarian by MOKOtheCRAZy: When I was a child the librarian was my hero becouse she know a lot of things about the books; the autors, the literature. So I imagined that she used the magic to put back the books on the shelves or to find them. I was a little girl…