Category: words

  • How Narrative therapists conceptualize identity

    shrinkrants: shrinkrants: Narrative therapists view identity as relational, distributed, performed, and fluid. By relational, we mean that our stories of who we have been and who we can be wouldn’t exist outside of our relationships with other people; they are shaped by our experiences with others and our sense of how they perceive us. By distributed, we mean that the…

  • Nueces En Texas: How To Roast Pecans | Adán’s blog

    Nueces En Texas: How To Roast Pecans | Adán’s blog

  • At a workshop not too many years ago a newer writer began to condemn a best selling novel, pointing out all its flaws and jagged edges. I listened for a long time, nodding. “All those things are true,” I said. And gave him the C.C. Finlay quote. “But until you learn what the good parts…

  • nevver: It’s okay if you don’t get it I shop, therefore I am

  • Pixel Press is an early stage project that is launching a Kickstarter on Tuesday, May 7th (via Draw Your Own Video Game | Pixel Press)

  • Jim Crow — Northern or Southern — is usually rendered to us as an archaic system in which people irrationally decide to separate from each other just based on skin color. There’s a reason that so many of us remember Martin Luther King’s line about little white boys and little black boys holding hands. It’s…

  • Here are some thoughts on vision. There is not much to the act of developing a project. The important part of a creative endeavor begins with an act of concentrated seeing, focused looking. Creativity will not flow from intellectual manipulations. Even less promising is the development of a project based on a concept one has…

  • ONE MAN’S ART IS ANOTHER MAN’S GAME Video games are known for interactive play and, at times, educational purposes. Gamers may not think of them as art, but they are increasingly being considered an artistic medium. Associate Professor Rafael Fajardo, who teaches design in emergent digital practices, calls the creation of video games “a complex,…

  • Adding DRM to the HTML standard will have far-reaching effects that are incompatible with the W3C’s most important policies, and with Berners-Lee’s deeply held principles. For example, the W3C has led the world’s standards bodies in insisting that its standards are not encumbered by patents. Where W3C members hold patents that cover some part of…

  • hyperallergic: Totally Uncool Jokers: Barbara Kruger’s Conceptual Comeback to Supreme Lawsuit Earlier this month, Complex covered Supreme’s hitting Leah McSweeney of clothing line Married to… View Post