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mattermedia: When we speak of social wholes with a high or low degree of hierarchization, we are basically dealing with a parametrization of the concept of assemblages. To parametrize a concept is to assign to it ‘control knobs that can have different settings at different times’ as DeLanda puts it. In his recent book Deleuze: History and…
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Finally, A Rich American Destroys The Fiction That Rich People Create Jobs
Finally, A Rich American Destroys The Fiction That Rich People Create Jobs Because, despite Hanauer’s impressive lifestyle—his family owns a plane—most of the $9+ million just goes straight into the bank (where it either sits and earns interest or gets invested in companies that ultimately need strong demand to sell products and create jobs). If…
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The Gibsonian Institute Catching Up To the Future: An Appreciation of William Gibson | Tor.com (via denarration )
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cartolleria: (via a billion tastes and tunes: book art, part 2)
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You need not come any longer, Freedom. We have found our joys in your absence. Iranian poetess, Elham Eslami, who died in a car accident yesterday along with her poet husband, Gholamreza Boroosan (via seaofgreen)
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smarterplanet: The Ingenious Business Model Behind Coursekit, A Tumblr For Higher Education | Fast Company At universities, educational software largely means enterprise-scale, expensive, feature-stuffed “learning management systems.” Blackboard has the majority of the market, but professors and students are about as enthusiastic about its various updates, crashes, and bugs as people are with the latest version of…
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Space Ipsum
Space Ipsum Have you ever needed filler text, but wished you had more exciting options then the generic “lorem ipsum” variations? If so, you are in luck! We’ve created this space themed random content generator, that uses phrases from historic moments in spaceflight.
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KG: No, Billy Collins … Billy Collins said in the session before me, he said something very similar. He said, “You cant expect to find your own voice. You don’t really have your own voice. You get your voice through deep reading of other people’s work.” I thought it was really brilliant … I agreed…
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That’s Revolting!: School for undocumented students in Georgia
That’s Revolting!: School for undocumented students in Georgia univisionnews: University of Georgia Professors are running a school for undocumented students who have been blocked off from the state’s top universities. (Photo by Freedom University) By JUAN GASTELUMChannel: Immigration A group of four University of Georgia…
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it successfully ties science fiction icons to the questions that haunted us 200 years ago and now alike, about what it means to be human, about whether there are places that science shouldn’t venture. But it does fall into one easy trap: portraying these fiction writers as “prophets” in the first place. Ridley Scott’s Prophets…