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Metahaven is a new kind of graphic design team. This self-styled ‘design think tank’ is such a departure from conventional forms of practice that it is unlikely many designers have heard of them yet, particularly outside the Netherlands. Nor do they go out of their way to provide colleagues with entry points into their concerns…
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econsociology: The original email that started Occupy Wall Street On September 17, 2011 thousands of women and men gathered in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City’s Wall Street financial district. It was a day when Occupy Wall Street (#OccupyWallStreet) movement was publicly born, garadually receiving global attention and spawning the grassroots protests against social and economic inequality all over…
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emergentfutures: Jailbreaking your cat litter: welcome to the Internet of Feudal Things mostlysignssomeportents: Jorge loves his Catgenie automated cat-litter tray, but doesn’t love spending $350/year on “Sanisolution” (perfumed gunk that makes the litter stick to his cats’ feet and gets tracked all over his apartment), but he discovered that the manufacturer uses DRM to stop…
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dreamingdigitalplay: we understand videogames, historically, as the aesthetic form of rationalization ~ we therefore argue that any engagement with videogames as a medium must be conscious of the context of their production in a capitalist system ~ we know that any analysis of videogames and their place within global capitalism must move beyond contexts of…
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From Gongkai to Open Source « bunnie’s blog
From Gongkai to Open Source « bunnie’s blog About a year and a half ago, I wrote about a $12 “Gongkai” cell phone (pictured above) that I stumbled across in the markets of Shenzhen, China. My most striking impression was that Chinese entrepreneurs had relatively unfettered access to cutting-edge technology, enabling start-ups to innovate while…
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TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys…
