RafaelFajardo

Category: words

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • damiensaatdjian: Martin CreedWork No. 227, 2000The lights going on and off5 seconds on / 5 seconds offThe Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2007  algorithmic art?

  • But the thought leaders on talk radio and Fox do more than shape opinion. Backed by their own wing of the book-publishing industry and supported by think tanks that increasingly function as public-relations agencies, conservatives have built a whole alternative knowledge system, with its own facts, its own history, its own laws of economics. Outside…

  • Why Boing Boing’s Xeni Jardin shared her breast-cancer diagnosis

    Why Boing Boing’s Xeni Jardin shared her breast-cancer diagnosis

  • poisonville: The evolution of riot gear. (NYT)

  • “Expecting undergraduates to follow the path of educational attainment of a professor is a bit like expecting an introductory finance class in personal or household money management to become millionaires.”

    “Expecting undergraduates to follow the path of educational attainment of a professor is a bit like expecting an introductory finance class in personal or household money management to become millionaires.” marathonpacks: David Cooper Moore’s “media literacy” blog is full of great insight. Particularly enjoyed this post.

  • It seems more pressing to invent possible relations with our neighbors in the present than to bet on happier tomorrows. Nicholas Bourriaud. Currently hating on RA. Today’s required reading: “The Fall of Relational Aesthetics,” Andrew Russeth for the New York Observer. (via jenlindblad)

  • During the past two years, the films of Andrei Tarkovsky have quietly come online, giving viewers the chance to encounter the Soviet director’s great body of work. If you’re not familiar with Tarkovsky, it’s worth mentioning that Ingmar Bergman considered him his favorite director, and Akira Kurosawa once said, “Every cut from his films is…