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[…] a book is a different object every time it is instantiated or read, be it by a human or machinic entity; they become part of the apparatus of the book, a performative apparatus. A Conversation on Digital Archiving Practices with Janneke Adema, Davide Giorgetta and Valerio Nicoletti (2015)
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The 2015 open source summer reading list [opensource.com]
mostlysignssomeportents: A decade of good books It’s 2004. Google files its IPO. A group of undergrads launche something called “The Facebook” at Harvard University. Apple’s most popular pocket i-thing is years away from taking phone calls. A curious new Linux distribution called “Ubuntu” appears. Opensource.com doesn’t exist. It won’t for another six years. Tech-savvy readers…
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kateoplis: Amy Winehouse, Kurt Cobain, and the Gendering of Martyrdom “In the same season we’ve been presented with two different comprehensive documentaries of two of our most iconic and tragic, gone-too-soon figures in recent decades. Brett Morgan’s Montage of Heck depicts the slow unraveling of Kurt Cobain in the preamble to his suicide, Asif Kapadia’s…
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bunnyfood: (via tastefullyoffensive:vininnarella)
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nevver: Le bat, Jonathan Dahl
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txchnologist: A New Shock Absorber Design This new compression design could be the thing that keeps you out of the auto body shop next time you accidentally back into an unseen post. The prototype above is a 3-D printed, 3.5-inch nylon structure that can repeatedly absorb the energy of a 100 mph fastball in 0.03 seconds.…
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brucesterling: http://www.artbook.com/9781938922787.html
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peraltaproject: After all the exploring Dora decided to get a wash & set from a Dominican salon. #doraconrolo #artlife #studiosession #latin #popart #roloseries
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Nobody enjoys being compared to the Nazis, but there is one way in which the swastika is an instructive example: It didn’t always mean what it means today. The swastika has a millennia-long history as a positive religious symbol. Even the word swastika has a pre-Nazi history, tracing back to a Sanscrit word that means…
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dad graduating from U Javeriana, Bogotá