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williamlmoore: Claire Bishop – Digital Divide: contemporary art and new media – artforum.com / in print towerofsleep: My point is that mainstream contemporary art simultaneously disavows and depends on the digital revolution, even—especially—when this art declines to speak overtly about the conditions of living in and through new media. But why is contemporary art so…
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oh it is about to get all sorts of serious business up in here.
rgr-pop: deadfast: [Content Warning: discussion of slut-shaming, rape culture, forced sex work, body-shaming, sizism, eating disorders.] For context, see strawberrycupcakekittens’s post on a particular parent with some very strong opinions on Monster High, but not too much in the way of logic to back them up. I refuse to directly link to that woman’s blog…
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Industrial design in particular has been especially important in the creation and maintenance of class divisions. Here’s a second, much different definition of industrial design specifically: it’s the profession of creating instructions for factory workers. Design is one of the linchpins of capitalism, because it makes alienated labor possible. Starting in the mid eighteenth century,…
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If attention is indeed the currency of the future, and those who can focus their attention actually gain a competitive advantage and perhaps a marketable skill, then assisting students to become “attention literate” could be every bit as important to after-college success as being a wise consumer of information. Attention Is the New Currency |…
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notational: “Instead of trying to directly challenge American colleges—a daunting proposition, given the political power and public subsidies they possess—the new breed of tech start-ups will likely start by working in the unregulated private sector, where they’ll build what amounts to a parallel higher education universe. A few weeks after returning from the West Coast,…
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The referential sketch serves as a visual diary, a record of an architect’s discovery. It can be as simple as a shorthand notation of a design concept or can describe details of a larger composition. It might not even be a drawing that relates to a building or any time in history. It’s not likely…
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Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them. Anaïs Nin (via explore-blog)
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Futurist Scenarios: Three Futures For China
stoweboyd: A classic futurist scenario-based extrapolation of current trends across the event horizon, but it doesn’t really compel. Micheal Lee spins three scenarios, based on factors in the footnotes, but it’s all so top-down and disconnected to outside influences: Michael Lee, Too Big to Succeed? Three China Scenarios to 2050 The fate of the 21st century…
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futuramb: Dear CEO: What is Your 400 Year Business Plan?germaneconsulting.com I first heard of the 400 year business plan when my husband, Robert Perschel, Executive Director, New England Forestry Foundation, attended ProSilva – Close to Nature forestry conference in France. City girl that I am, I stayed in Par… Barrels used to make cognac are…
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In our accelerated reality, it’s not too much of a stretch to say that cameraphone nudes, floating on the Internet, are part of the lineage from Botticelli to Mapplethorpe. Maybe they do not generally possess the same level of skill as those greats, but cell pics continue the tradition of capturing the human form in…