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jenlindblad: Carl-Johan Rosén’s project “I speak myself into an object” is a book consisting only of the programming code the computer needs to print the book. Last week I saw CHR give a reading from the book, super interesting because the gibberish of the code is transformed into a kind of poetry. The project gives…
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mobylosangelesarchitecture: now i’m going to put on my low-rent grad student hat for a second. or a minute. or for however long it takes me to write about semiotics and from a low-rent grad student perspective. (oh, to be clear: ‘low rent’ meaning the quality of my writing, not the value of this real estate. i’m guessing this…
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Lynn Coady on Sexual Counterrevolution in The US
stoweboyd: Lynn Coady, Twilight of the Patriarchs In her book, Delirium: The Politics of Sex in America, Nancy L. Cohen examines how sexual hysteria has hijacked American conservative politics in recent decades. She begins her story with the arrival of the contraceptive pill in 1965, demonstrating how the new era of sexual freedom led directly to…
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krf: One and Three Chairs, 1965, is a work by Joseph Kosuth. An example of conceptual art, the piece consists of a chair, a photograph of this chair, and an enlarged dictionary definition of the word “chair” Ceci n’est pas une chaise (?) Saw it in Dallas.
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lilly: Tumblr & Human-scale Design Lots of the chatter this morning is on the $1.1B headline, or the story of Marissa’s Yahoo, or Tumblr’s massive growth & relevance to youth, or New York’s continuing emergence on the world’s tech stage. But I want to talk about something else that I find remarkable about Tumblr, even…
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Stanford Graduate School of Business: 5 Core Skills of Disruptive, Visual-Thinking Innovators
Stanford Graduate School of Business: 5 Core Skills of Disruptive, Visual-Thinking Innovators stanfordbusiness: “Visual thinking is the foundation for being creative and solving some of the most complex problems,” explained author and founder of Innovation Studio Lisa Kay Solomon. Solomon and Emily Shepard of The Graphic Distillery discussed the key role of visual thinking in…
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kateoplis: The Banality of ‘Don’t Be Evil’ “THE New Digital Age” is a startlingly clear and provocative blueprint for technocratic imperialism, from two of its leading witch doctors, Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen, who construct a new idiom for United States global power in the 21st century. This idiom reflects the ever closer union between…
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fylatinamericanhistory: Yesterday’s Peruvian Google doodle celebrated the National Day of the Potato, a holiday established in 2005 and commemorated annually on May 30. Potatoes originated in what is now Peru and were eventually spread throughout the world following European colonization of the Americas. Over three thousand varieties of potato are cultivated today.
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quincampoix: Max Bill giving a lesson in Zurich, 1945 thanks to my friend Abel for showing me this pic