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Amazon Auto-Wires New E-Books of Neal Stephenson’s “Reamde” | The Awl
Amazon Auto-Wires New E-Books of Neal Stephenson’s “Reamde” | The Awl We are reading several of Stephenson’s works for a seminar, Readme included. As this is the early part of the 20th century, there is no one canonical edition of each text. Some are reading on Kindle or iOS devices where page numbering is fluid.…
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Emergent Digital Practices: WHAT IS GOOD DESIGN? YOU DECIDE!!
Emergent Digital Practices: WHAT IS GOOD DESIGN? YOU DECIDE!! emergentdigitalpractices: Vote for the 2011 People’s Design Award. Browse this year’s nominees or submit/nominate a new design. Vote for your favorite design. Comment and share with friends using the People’s Design Award Facebook app. Follow us on Twitter and join in the discussion by using hashtag…
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(via Governor Valve) This governor valve uses oil. It is a more contemporary adaptation of Watt’s governor valve for steam engines. Here the system is shown with weights swinging around a horizontal axis. In the area of detail that shows the valve allowing oil to pass through, it does not reveal what should be turbine…
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tedfromtheinternet: This needs to happen. And it needs to return to the Paul Rand identity.
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Overlooking The Visual reviewed in Design Research News
BOOK REVIEW Kathryn Moore, Overlooking the Visual: Demystifying the Art of Design (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2010). Reviewed by Gareth Doherty, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. In this mesmerising book, Kathryn Moore turns traditional assumptions about design, and design education, upside down and inside out. Moore tells us that “a radical…
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In eight years, “Blade Runner” will be set in the present.
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That front door is now on view in “Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life,” at the Grey Art Gallery, New York University. It is a historically fascinating and excellently produced show of works that mostly masked revolutionary intentions behind deceptively modest, small-scale pieces of assemblage, print making, performance and wordplay. What Fluxus was is…
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FringeWare Review #4“Chicks in Psyberspace,” edited by Erika Whiteway and Tiffany Lee Brown. That’s Becca Cannon, lead singer for the now-defunct Austin punkadelic band Sincola.(by John Lebkowsky) I have this on my bookshelf. I have to find it. I’ve been asked to balance the male point of view in my cyberpunk seminars. This is one…
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“The supreme literary expression if not of postmodernism, then of late capitalism itself.” –Fredric Jameson (in Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism , 1991). (via Mark/Space: Anachron City: Library: Glossary: cyberpunk )
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