RafaelFajardo

todoelajo: it must be said that most of our efforts at addressing racism and sexism in higher education are framed as that of access/inclusion. this is hardly news. not only does the notion of ‘inclusion’ not fundamentally alter the frames of who is doing the including, and under what conditions; it also presumes mere adjustment…

January 15, 2015

The beauty and mystery of the ethnographer’s quest is to find the unexpected stories that challenge our theories… We go to find the stories we didn’t know we were looking for in the first place. Ruth Behar, “Ethnography and the book that was lost.” Ethnography, 2003 (via actuallyvirtual)

January 15, 2015

Disarming, too, is the show’s youngest artist, the twenty-eight-year-old Colombian art-market phenomenon Oscar Murillo, who shows stitched-together, furiously scribbled and slathered, uncannily elegant abstractions Is There Anything Left to Paint?

January 14, 2015

Video games are more prone than other media to obsolescence. With each new generation of hardware and software, scores of titles are made unplayable. Music has suffered similarly, of course: vinyl morphed into cassette into CD into digital audio. But music, like films and books, is easily transferred to new formats. Video games, which rely…

January 14, 2015

fyprocessing: Every river in the United States Ben Fry and Fathom Design.

January 14, 2015

Bruce Sterling’s wonderful novella Kiosk in podcast form [2010]

Bruce Sterling’s wonderful novella Kiosk in podcast form [2010] mostlysignssomeportents: Tony sez, “StarShipSofa’s latest podcast installment is ‘Kiosk’, the novella written by the SF great, Bruce Sterling. Narrated by the brilliant Peter Cavell, ‘Kiosk’ is a tale easily relatable to the 21st century. Sterling’s novella focuses on a Borislav who runs a little kiosk in…

January 13, 2015

Forget Wearable Tech. People Really Want Better Batteries.

Forget Wearable Tech. People Really Want Better Batteries. The reporting on this is sloppy, drawing conclusions from an ad hoc marketing survey with few data points. Nevertheless, it will be repeated as a sure indicator of where we should be exploring. Focus grouping the future gives us more of what we already know we want…

January 13, 2015

3dprintart: Oliver van Herp spent two years working on a 3D printer and 3D printing process that could make large and medium scale functional 3D printed ceramics.

January 13, 2015