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notational: “It turns out procrastination is not typically a function of laziness, apathy or work ethic as it is often regarded to be. It’s a neurotic self-defense behavior that develops to protect a person’s sense of self-worth. You see, procrastinators tend to be people who have, for whatever reason, developed to perceive an unusually strong…
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The greatest challenge lay in the fact that photographic and cinematic processes could accomplish better and faster – and with a diffusion a hundred thousand times greater than was possible for pictorial and narrative realism – the task that academicism had assigned to realism: protecting consciousness from doubt. Jean-François Lyotard, “Answering the question: what is…
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Voloshinov argues that the sign is, through and through, ideological in character. “A sign does not simply exist as part of reality – it reflects and refracts another reality. Therefore it may distort the reality or be true to it, or may perceive it from a special point of view, and so forth. Every sign…
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criticaltoys: critical toy sketch 2013 03 05 04
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criticaltoys: toy sketch 3
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criticaltoys: toy sketch
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criticaltoys: toy
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Part of Galileo’s genius was to transfer the spirit of the Italian Renaissance in the plastic arts to the mathematical and observational ones. He took the competitive, empirical drive with which Florentine painters had been looking at the world and used it to look at the night sky. The intellectual practices of doubting authority and…
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thisfeliciaday: Did you hear about this awesome event we’re making? Join me! More info here: http://bit.ly/tabletopday My friends have asked me to host a site for this. It falls on my birthday. There will be joy.
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hoticecream: A country without an expectation of minimal artistic literacy, without a basic structure by which the artists among us can be awakened and given the choice of following their talents and a way to get to be great at what they do, is a country that is not actually as great as it could…