RafaelFajardo

Category: words

  • madamebits: World’s largest book – needs 2 people to turn the pages.

  • post documents; transform your feelings

    karaj: “if the text acts once, it can act again, and possibly against its prior act. this raises the possibility of resignification as an alternative reading of performativity and politics.” —judith butler, excitable speech 

  • I wonder why De Certeau chose to use “strategy” and “tactic” as descriptors of spatial and temporal placedness in the introduction to The Practice of Everyday Life.

  • paperbits: The craft on display in this video (of a book being created with traditional printing methods) is compelling and hypnotic. (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

  • Some friends in Denver have launched a Kickstarter to fund their videogame project. They are exceptionally talented folks, and I hope you will consider supporting their effort. (Source: https://www.kickstarter.com/)

  • Scratch@MIT 2012 | Create Your World

    Scratch@MIT 2012 | Create Your World I’ll be presenting. jottingmatt: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 — Saturday, July 28, 2012 Scratch@MIT 2012 is the third biennial conference where educators, researchers, developers, and other members of the worldwide Scratch community will gather on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts to share their experiences and imagine the possibilities…

  • theavc: 100 Episodes investigates the most influential show in television history. (Source: http://theavc.tumblr.com/)

  • Vincenzo Pacelli Says Knights of Malta Murdered Artist Caravaggio Apr 8, 2012 4:45 AM EDT Lead poisoning or syphilis? Neither killed Caravaggio, says a Naples professor in a new book. Instead, the master artist was slain and dumped in the sea by the Knights of Malta—with the Catholic Church’s blessing. Vincenzo Pacelli Says Knights of…

  • The question isn’t what happens to publishing — the entire category has been evacuated. The question is, what are the parent professions needed around writing? Publishing isn’t one of them. Editing, we need, desperately. Fact-checking, we need. For some kinds of long-form texts, we need designers. Will we have a movie-studio kind of setup, where…

  • nevver: The Masters