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Samuel Delany and the Past and Future of Science Fiction – The New Yorker
Samuel Delany and the Past and Future of Science Fiction – The New Yorker
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While walking home from #imagine2020 lecture was stopped by man: Sir! That t-shirt is AWESOME! It’s heartening to have heard that. #gamingsfeministilluminati (at Twenty One | 01 On Market)
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Selfie for Lisa, during her critical meditation on selfies (at Buena Vista, Colorado)
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Pablo Escobar’s Hippos Keep Having Sex and No One Is Sure How to Stop Them
Pablo Escobar’s Hippos Keep Having Sex and No One Is Sure How to Stop Them Magical realism is evenly distributed throughout all of Colombia, and not restricted to the northern coastal region where Gabriel Garcia Marquez based his fiction. Umberto Eco’s concept of Hyperreality cannot encapsulate the existence and persistence of Escobar’s hippos.
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garadinervi: Gertrud Preiswerk, 1920s-1930s, Bauhaus Archive, The Met, New York
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additivism: How technology made us hyper-capable – and helpless Tech enables us to do more while understanding less. That’s fine, until there’s a glitch – which is why the US navy is teaching sailors how to navigate by the stars The smartphone in your hand enables you to record a video, edit it and send it…
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Gentrification spreads the myth of native incompetence: That people need to be imported to be important, that a sign of a neighbourhood’s “success” is the removal of its poorest residents. True success lies in giving those residents the services and opportunities they have long been denied. The peril of hipster economics (via socio-logic)
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iamdanw: (via Children of Men: Don’t Ignore The Background – YouTube) (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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Programmers, computer scientists, and critical theorists have reduced software to a recipe, a set of instructions, substituting space/text for time/process. The current common-sense definition of software as a “set of instructions that direct a comptuer to do a specific task” and the OED definition of software as “the programs and procedures required to enable a…
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comicsworkbook: daveortega: Lunch #lunch #sketchbook Dave Ortega