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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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Los sólidos platónicos son poliedros convexos cuyas caras son polígonos regulares iguales y en cuyos vértices se unen el mismo número de caras. Reciben este nombre en honor al filósofo griego Platón (ca.427 adC/428 adC – 347 adC), a quien se atribuye haberlos estudiado en primera instancia. También se conocen como cuerpos platónicos, cuerpos cósmicos,…
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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…
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Backflip Studios is launching the free-to-play game DragonVale today, which represents the pioneering game studio’s latest efforts to raise the stakes in the iPhone game market. And the mobile game studio will use its casual titles to draw more users to this type of deeper mobile gaming experience. We’ve monitored Backflip’s progress over the years,…
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In this blog post, Flurry focuses on how mobile devices have severely altered the shape and flow of revenue in the multi-billion dollar portable game category. Portable gaming, played primarily on Nintendo DS and Sony PSP devices, has been dominated by these two companies for over two decades. In this model, at retail, consumers pay…