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If you’re looking for sexy co-eds from a certain school or mascot porn, adding a .xxx to the university’s web address won’t help your kinky ways. Several universities nationwide, most notably University of Missouri, are registering .xxx addresses as not only as a defensive technique but to protect their reputation. “We don’t want someone coming…
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Kenneth Goldsmith interviewed by Marcus Boon for BOMB magazine
MB: Did you think of Ubu from the beginning as being this vast, global, encyclopedia for the avant-garde? What was it at the moment that you first thought of it? KG: At the beginning it was a repository for visual, concrete, and sound poetry. Really old dusty stuff that suddenly, when it was scanned and…
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poisonville: The evolution of riot gear. (NYT)
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When my shield broke, I raged, I swore, I pulled a total Croyt. And then I realized I was experiencing something that is somewhat lost in videogames now: Genuine difficulty. This game was not kowtowing to me. Sure, it spent five hours on the freaking tutorial — but by god, after that, it was done…
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The most celebrated and influential among all “culture” designers are Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr, who in 1996 founded the Tissue Culture & Art Project (TC&A) at the University of Western Australia in Perth. In 2000, they also established SymbioticA, a collaborative artistic laboratory dedicated to the study and critique of life sciences located within…
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“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.
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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)
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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…
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towerofsleep: danhurray: This December I get to learn something completely foreign to me. Hurraaaayyyyyyy I am interested in this kind of philosophy, which is why I joined an Object-oriented Ontology reading group (thanks, Dan!), but I am mainly reblogging this because the cover art is so amazing.
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Stowe Boyd: No Flow In The Coffee Shop, Please!
Stowe Boyd: No Flow In The Coffee Shop, Please! Nick Bilton finds that coffee shops are prohibiting computers (and e-readers): Nick Bilton, No E-Books Allowed in This Establishment A few weeks ago I decided to mosey over to a local Manhattan coffee shop for an afternoon cappuccino. After placing my order I sat down at…