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prostheticknowledge: Printable Hydraulics 3D printing method developed by MIT CSAIL can print in both solid and liquid materials simulataneously, allowing to make a functional robot from one file – just add a motor and battery and it is ready to go: “Our approach, which we call ‘printable hydraulics,’ is a step towards the rapid fabrication…
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How to Talk About Videogames: a book that is serious (but never dull) about games
mostlysignssomeportents: Ian Bogost’s How to Talk About Videogames isn’t just a book about games – it’s a book about criticism, and where it fits in our wider culture. Bogost is the rare academic writer whose work is as clear and exciting as the best of the mainstream, and whose critical exercises backfire by becoming enormous…
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How to Talk About Videogames: a book that is serious (but never dull) about games
mostlysignssomeportents: Ian Bogost’s How to Talk About Videogames isn’t just a book about games – it’s a book about criticism, and where it fits in our wider culture. Bogost is the rare academic writer whose work is as clear and exciting as the best of the mainstream, and whose critical exercises backfire by becoming enormous…
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Paul Galloway
Paul Galloway alexainslie: “Anytime, too, you do a thing that is a list, people will be upset that something is missing. Yeah. Yeah. That’s just how it’s gonna be. But we were very aware of the potential for controversy and we talked to the curators at the Smithsonian because we were doing this at the…
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Paul Galloway
Paul Galloway alexainslie: “Anytime, too, you do a thing that is a list, people will be upset that something is missing. Yeah. Yeah. That’s just how it’s gonna be. But we were very aware of the potential for controversy and we talked to the curators at the Smithsonian because we were doing this at the…
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For the future does not appear, unexpected, but is designed, planned, made and maintained. It takes particular people and things, in particular places, to make the future in one way and not another. Laura Watts, ‘Smart power flows at the island edge’ (2016) Yes but there are so many of us doing that now and the…
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For the future does not appear, unexpected, but is designed, planned, made and maintained. It takes particular people and things, in particular places, to make the future in one way and not another. Laura Watts, ‘Smart power flows at the island edge’ (2016) Yes but there are so many of us doing that now and the…
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Code Drawings in Hopscotch, Archives On Fire
I wrote an essay for Archives On Fire, a special issue of Reconstruction: Studies In Contemporary Culture, an online journal. It’s long and meditates on the difficulties in archiving code drawings. The images were re-compressed several times, and so they appear in soft-focus as compared to the source images viewable on this website. http://reconstruction.digitalodu.com/Issues/161/Fajardo.shtml