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The Corporation Who Would Be King
technoccult: Klint Finley Some design fiction from Tim Maly, who wrote that thing about corporations being bad AI: “…if a firm, partnership, company, or corporation owns real property within the municipality, the president, vice president, secretary, or other designee of the entity is eligible to vote in a municipal election…” -Montana Bill Would Give Corporations…
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remash: soil quasi bricks | detail ~ olafur eliasson
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“books one picked up and put down over a period, say, of ten years, picking them up on the eleventh to discover the impossibility of putting them down. what’s the arithmetic of this?” john cage, in “numerals”, exhibition catalog, 1978, yale university gallery. airform archives: cage on books… (via notational)
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I made this! A piece I contributed to an AIGA voter campaign makes a cameo appearance in the new documentary film Design & Thinking.
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I DON’T KNOW (1968/2006), Cornelia Sollfrank
I DON’T KNOW (1968/2006), Cornelia Sollfrank seemstween: Duration: 15:21 Conversation between Cornelia Sollfrank and Andy WarholSCUM Produtions In their legendary conversation, the two artists discuss the similarities between their aesthetic strategies of appropriating and reworking found material (images, text, sound) from mass media, pop culture and art. They discover that they share a passion for automated,…
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Florida himself, in his role as an editor at The Atlantic, admitted last month what his critics, including myself, have said for a decade: that the benefits of appealing to the creative class accrue largely to its members—and do little to make anyone else any better off. The rewards of the “creative class” strategy, he…
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usnatarchives: What a Sport Wednesday gets a kick today with a visit from Edson Arantes Nacimento, better known as Pelé. He stopped by the Rose Garden on June 28, 1975, to share some pointers on soccer with President Ford. In a background memo for the meeting Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, himself a soccer fan,…
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Empathy and vulnerability
jkottke: Sara Wachter-Boettcher on the relationship between vulnerability and empathy, especially when it comes to making things for other people to use. [Empathy] means being open — truly open — to feeling emotions we may not want to feel. It means allowing another’s experiences to gut us. It means ceding control. Empathy begins with vulnerability.…
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museumoflatinamericanart: If you are a Latin American immigrant or are the child of immigrants, join us this Sunday, March 24 from 12:00-4:00pm and go inside La Burbuja (The Bubble) and record your story for KCRW’s Sonic Trace.
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blackpeculiar: Coco Fusco, brilliantly, on issues of race in arts academia. (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)