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Building the Ontological Subway System
dropouthangoutspaceout: andrewfm replied to your quote: Perhaps instead of rising beyond good and evil,… But what does this mean Okay stay with me here – I might not have this perfect. Essentially it’s Harman’s pithy quote (of which he has many) on the work that Object Oriented Ontology is particularly concerned with as a project – the de-centering…
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bashford: Big Head by Dan Rosenfeld – Halloween 2011 “The wearer’s face is captured with a video camera looking through a half-silvered mirror. There’s a second camera, which captures a view from the front of the box, near the eyes of the on-screen face. The outside view is shown on an internal LCD, which reflects on…
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Walmart Plans To Capitalize On Primary Care Shortage By Adding Medical Services: UPDATE
Walmart Plans To Capitalize On Primary Care Shortage By Adding Medical Services: UPDATE stoweboyd: futuramb: Walmart shoppers may soon be able to get a physical or have an allergy test after picking up their groceries if the big-box retailer gets its way. The nation’s largest retailer sent out a request for potential partners last month…
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laphamsquarterly: Lapham’s Quarterly is looking for a web intern. The LQ web intern is someone who is both future and past literate. You’ll get the issue online, help with social media, submit texts for the issue, fact check, and most importantly, you’ll write the Déjà Vu blog. This is a serious internship for seriously creative…
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Open Letter to My Students: No, You Cannot be a Professor
Open Letter to My Students: No, You Cannot be a Professor austinkleon: A history professor’s reply to students who say to him, “I want to do what you do.” I know that some of your other professors are encouraging your dreams of an academic career. It is natural to turn to your professors for advice…
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Open Letter to My Students: No, You Cannot be a Professor
Open Letter to My Students: No, You Cannot be a Professor austinkleon: A history professor’s reply to students who say to him, “I want to do what you do.” I know that some of your other professors are encouraging your dreams of an academic career. It is natural to turn to your professors for advice…
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(via 15 Awesome Photos Of Colombian Students Fighting Riot Police)
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This essay, made available here in English and Spanish, was written for the exhibition Transitio _MX 03, which took place in Mexico City in October 2009. The text was published in December 2010 in Errata, a Colombian journal dedicated to art and culture. The text explores the concept of non-places (which is the foundation of…
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The drug war is not a failure; rather it works perfectly for its intended purposes. It generates billions of dollars for government agencies at all levels, employing millions of people. It created and supports whole industries such as drug testing, and has enhanced the drug rehabilitation industry. The drug war also protects other industries such…
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The word technocrat can also refer to an advocate of a form of government in which experts preside. The notion of a technocracy remains mostly hypothetical, though some nations have been considered as such in the sense of being governed primarily by technical experts. Historian Walter A. McDougall argued that the Soviet Union was the…