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I can’t help but mourn the passing of my set of Britannicas
stoweboyd: “I can’t help but mourn the passing of my set of Britannicas, but I do not mourn the passing of the institution. Encyclopædias have passed their use-by-date as fitting symbols for the esteem in which we hold culture and learning. The world is changing, and books, magazines and education have to change with it.…
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“Impressive Denver study on equity & transit should become national model Kaid Benfield. May 4, 2012 Transit analysts Reconnecting America and the Denver equity coalition Mile High Connects have released an impressive compendium of maps and research showing how expansion of that city’s transit system could bring major opportunity to traditionally underserved populations – if local agencies take…
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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
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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…