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political-linguaphile: Farthest extent of Spanish colonization in America.Red: Farthest extent of Spanish colonies under the House of Bourbon in the 1790s.Pink: Disputed claims of Spanish colonial administration.Purple: Portuguese colonies under dual Spanish colonial administration- conquest, settlement and political rule over much of the Western Hemisphere Colonization is scary, to say the least.
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aquarianpunk: PROTOTYPING INTERFACES Interaction designers develop our digital everyday life. They concept, sketch and create new possibilities of interaction, which are evaluated with functional and technical prototypes. The book “Prototyping Interfaces – Interactive Sketches with VVVV” covers within 280 pages the applied handling of interactive sketches with the visual programming language VVVV. It is divided…
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Yeah, cyberpunk is difficult. There’s a reason we haven’t had a great cyberpunk movie yet. There’s a reason why a sci-fi movie as great as Neuromancer has never made it to the screen. I do think there’s a new wave coming, and not just because the technology and the effects are up to speed, but…
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GPOY
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slavin: “But what if MOOCs actually turned out to be part of a right-wing plot? After some reflection, it’s become clear to me that there is a crucial difference in how the Internet’s remaking of higher education is qualitatively different than what we’ve seen with recorded music and newspapers. There’s a political context to the…
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Want to send a letter to Talkeetna, Alaska, from New York? It will cost you fifty dollars by UPS. Grabenhorst or Lipscomb can do it for less than two quarters: the same as the cost of getting a letter from Gold Hill to Shady Cove, Oregon, twenty miles up the road. It’s how the postal…
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I finally understand what a constructor does!
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With this issue, we have redesigned and restructured the printed magazine to, we hope, more powerfully present stories for you to think about and argue with. To give more scope to the expertise and interests of our growing staff of writers, we have added several features to the Dispatches section, alongside the short essays and…
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1. Makes grandiose, but unsupported claims for technology 2. Uses the term Luddite a-historically and as a casual slur 3. Pays lip service to, but ultimately dismisses genuine concerns 4. Equates resistance or caution to reactionary nostalgia 5. Starkly and matter-of-factly frames the case for assimilation 6. Announces the bleak future for those who refuse…
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rgr-pop: This is a cover by Ellen Raskin. I have this book because I have a database of women book designers, which is a really critical field, I think. But Ellen Raskin is a really famous artist and writer and probably doesn’t need the same sort of recovery as a lot of other women designers…