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Arguably the Anthropocene itself is due less to technology run amok than to the humanist legacy that understands the world as having been given for our needs and created in our image. We see this still everywhere. Our computing culture is deeply confused, and is so along these same lines. We vacillate between thinking of…
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A Multifunctional Sofa Named Herb – Design Milk
A Multifunctional Sofa Named Herb – Design Milk wolfliving: rafaelfajardo: posting so I can find it later. thinking about the sofa at Casa Jasmina, and the low likelihood that someone would want to plug a sofa into a power outlet, and then someone in Milan goes and suggests that that is exactly what we all…
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Coplan’s careful use of the phrase “level of shyness” is a good reminder that introversion and extroversion are not diametrically opposed in black and white fashion; and in any case, people’s personalities shift depending on the time and situation. As Jill Burruss and Lisa Kaenzig explained in their paper for the College of William and…
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Chronicle.com: What made you decide to leave your post as a professor and dean at MIT to start your own university? Christine Ortiz: I’ve been at MIT for 17 years, and it’s been amazing. And I’ve always been interested in curriculum and thinking about the future of the research university, and I did a lot…
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List of shibboleth names
lazenby: Paul Erdősby which the privileged judge their inferiors A Chinua Achebe (chin-oo-ah ah-chay-bae) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (chim-ah-man-da nnnn-go-zeh ah-dee-che) James Agee (a-jee) Jerzy Andrzejewski (yer-zhay ahn-zhay-ev-ski) Hannah Arendt (ahr-ent) Martha Argerich (mar-tah herr-each) Eugène Atget (oo-zhenne at-zhey) Augustine of Hippo (aw-gus-tin) B Angelo Badalamenti (bottle-ah-menti) Donald/Frederick Barthelme (barth-uhl-me) Karl Barth (bart) Roland Barthes (bart) Tycho Brahe (Danish…
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(via Masquespacio unveils Missana collaboration Take a pew: Masquespacio unveils debut furniture collection for Missana | Wallpaper* Magazine) another sofa to help me think about Casa Jasmina and the global influence of the Internet of Italian Things (IoIT). in this case a re-interpretation of Post-Modern interiors where the Memphis of Sotsass and Branzi is somehow…