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<blockquote>When I first heard there was a video game called <i>Social Justice Warriors</i> which simulated Internet arguing, I (errantly) assumed that in the wake of the gamergate controversy, the title was invoking a pejorative use of “social justice.” Upon further investigation, I learned that the titular <i>Social Justice Warriors</i> are indeed the heroes in this…
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MOTIVATION Our intention is to increase the number of students experiencing low-level approaches (as in command line prompts and programming) that remove as many layers of interface abstraction as possible. Specifically, we are offering an alternative to the standard “Creative Suite®” focused approach to new media aspects of art and design foundations. ARRAY[ ] offers…
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Too much time on his hands
mostlysignssomeportents: “That guy has too much spare time” is one of the most odious, intellectually dishonest, dismissive things a person can say. It disguises a vicious ad-hominem attack as a lighthearted verbal shrug. The subtext of the remark is that the subject’s passions — this remark is almost always directed at someone engaged in some…
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kenyatta: kmikeym: CHAPPIE IS A TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE, IMPORTANT MOVIE I liked this movie. best ironic quote: It’s not just Chappie either—the entire Johannesburg Police Force’s front line is composed of walking talking killing machines. These robots aren’t free-willed and thinking in the same way that Chappie is, but can be seen to make judgements about…
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moma: Member previews begin today for Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955–1980, which features drawings, models, vintage photographs, and film clips alongside newly commissioned models and photographs. [Tomás José Sanabria. Hotel Humboldt, Caracas, Venezuela, 1956. © Fundación Alberto Vollmer]
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Jonathan Lukens’s study of visual artists who avoid using tools such as Photoshop for specific portions of their work demonstrates how non-use can require as much, if not more, conscious, deliberate, effortful action as technology use does. In this way, while non-use is often understood as the absence of a phenomenon or practice, something else…