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Subcompact Publishing
… Zip drives ate floppies. CDs ate Zips. DVDs ate CDs. SD cards ate film. LCDs ate CRTs. Telephony ate telegraphy. Text messaging ate talking. Tablets are eating our paper … IMAGINE A TABLE: Hundreds of meters long and wooden. Worn and oiled. Old and knotted. Wide enough for a person. Now — open the…
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“About the Word Design” [“Vom Wort Design”]. The Shape of Things: A Philosophy of Design [Vom Stand der Dinge: Eine Kleine Philosophie des Design]. Trans. Anthony Mathews. 1993. London: Reaktion Books, 1999. 17-21. Also translated as “On the Word Design: An Etymological Essay.” Trans. J. Cullars. Design Issues 11.3 (Autumn 1995): 50-53. Also published in…
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Lines of Enquiry: Designers are liars all design is a lie
Lines of Enquiry: Designers are liars all design is a lie jamesbranch: Thanks to @juspar who flagged this post on Sean Sturm’s blog which features the essay About the Word Design (Flusser, 1991) published in Eine Kleine Philosophie des Design (1993) a reference to either Coldcut or Mozart. Anyway… In it Flusser analyses the origins…
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other-wordly: pronunciation | “sO-bRe-‘mA-sa
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MOMA acquires 14 games, for starters, for permanent collection
November 29, 2012 | Collection & Exhibitions, Design Video Games: 14 in the Collection, for Starters Posted by Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, Department of Architecture and Design We are very proud to announce that MoMA has acquired a selection of 14 video games, the seedbed for an initial wish list of about 40 to be…
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Dr. Manhattan makes shadow puppets with hyper-cubes
Dr. Manhattan makes shadow puppets with hyper-cubes, by Rafael Fajardo. Made with Paper
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Dr. Manhattan seeks enlightenment
Dr. Manhattan seeks enlightenment, by Rafael Fajardo. Made with Paper
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This whole interview looks worthy of a thoughtful read
shrinkrants: elektrokardiogrammatology: Under the current conditions of debt and exposure, nation-states can’t bear to admit their abjection, can’t bear that they have become mere supplicants for the wealth that they have allowed to become privately held on behalf of a spectral growth on whose tithing the state has come to depend. The Euro-American state is…
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When emerging arts entrepreneurs are involved in the creative process associated with entrepreneurship, their first impulse would understandably be rooted in their artistic experience. This explains why they are so frequently wedded to their ideas, as they (the ideas) come out from their personal experience. It also explains why young arts entrepreneurs are frequently reluctant…