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IT feudalism: the surveillance state and wealth gaps [please share!]
mostlysignssomeportents: My latest Guardian column examines the relationship between technology, surveillance and wealth disparity — specifically the way that cheap mass surveillance makes it possible to sustain more unequal societies because it makes it cheaper to find and catch the dissidents who foment rebellion over the creation of hereditary elites. Social stability comes at the…
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futurescope: UC Berkeley unveils first-of-its-kind 3-D-printed cement structure A UC Berkeley research team led by Ronald Rael, associate professor of architecture, developed the first and largest powder-based 3-D-printed cement structure built to date. According to Rael, they “are mixing polymers with cement and fibers to produce very strong, lightweight, high-resolution parts on readily available equipment;…
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…we have this idea that the market is a thing that just happens. This is the debate in the 19th century: market relations creeped up within feudalism and then it overthrew [feudalism]. So gradually the market is just the natural expression of human freedom; and since it regulates itself, it will gradually displace everything else…
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thedsgnblog: Work in progres is a limited fanzin designed by Studio Reko “In the last year we have collected hundreds of photos as inspiration for our daily work.A lot of these have "unknown sources” as we couldn’t find one.In this first edition we would like to share some of our favourites with you.Printed in 28…
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austinkleon: Work For Artists momalibrary: Indeed. This 1947 publication by the American Artists Group documents a symposium organized by photography historian Elizabeth McCausland… Available online or stop by to read the library copy. -jt Look forward to dipping into this a little bit. I skipped ahead to the essay by the great Lynd Ward: Filed…
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Someday robots may take over the world. The dystopian possibilities don’t trouble me like the probable rise of art-making machines. Art is, arguably, what most distinguishes humans from the rest of creation. It is the thing that makes us proudest of ourselves. For all of the nastiness of human history, at least we wrote some…