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Automakers are supporting provisions in copyright law that could prohibit home mechanics and car enthusiasts from repairing and modifying their own vehicles. In comments filed with a federal agency that will determine whether tinkering with a car constitutes a copyright violation, OEMs and their main lobbying organization say cars have become too complex and dangerous…
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Due June 1 | The Retro-Futurism of Cuteness (Punctum Books) | Renaissance Studies
Due June 1 | The Retro-Futurism of Cuteness (Punctum Books) | Renaissance Studies cutestudies: Wan-Chuan Kao and Jen Boyle will edit a book of academic essays on cuteness. Deadline for proposals is coming up on June 1, 2015!
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10 Print with @_stunned at Media Archeology Lab
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(via Disney’s New 3D Printer Prototype Makes Huggable Things Out Of Fabric Instead Of Hard Plastic | TechCrunch) (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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Having an epistemological relationship with reality means being a critical examiner of your experience, questioning and interpreting you life and education rather than merely walking through them. Paulo Freire (via kunsthandwerk)
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Correa for &&&: Alex, I’m interested to see how philosophy as such has a certain take about the ways that more conventional art has been transcribed into the realm of the Internet; the vast majority of art is produced in an analogue way and thus becomes digital. Galloway: One of the things I’m trying to…
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In other words, Humanities Computing (and its successor, Digital Humanities) has focused on using computational tools to further humanities research, and not to study the effects of computation as a humanities question. A Letter to the Humanities: DH Will Not Save You – Hybrid Pedagogy rafaelfajardo: I added the part in parenthesis above for clarity.
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But “digital humanities” in the guise of “humanities computing,” “big data,” “topic modelling,” “object oriented ontology” is not going to save the humanities from the chopping block. It’s only going to push the humanities further over the precipice. Because these methods alone make up a field which is simply a handmaiden to STEM. Think about…
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But from the spring of 2012 through last spring, only 250 non-UC students finished a class. By then, the system had pretty much abandoned the idea of making money by targeting non-UC students—though a few classes remain available—and focused on letting UC students enroll in courses on other campuses that they couldn’t get into on…