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Sorrow in the Balkans | Virtual Vita Nuova
Sorrow in the Balkans | Virtual Vita Nuova warrenellis: “Sorrow never stops in the Balkans. It’s the favorite topic, the inspiration, the poetic lament. It’s the history.”
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http://jasminatesanovic.wordpress.com/2014/05/26/sorrow-in-the-balkans/ “The Balkan countries are warlike and fractious, but they tend to unite when oppressed by a common enemy, in this case a fantastic Global Warming cloudburst. Soldiers and bayonets are worthless against the floods, the bad dams, the lack of any plan to deal with the reality of the climate crisis. Suddenly the Balkan…
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cinoh: onzai: skipxd: slide to unlock My first impression of this was that everytime you sell yourself to technology and the masses, you lose a bit of your identity I don’t care if that’s completely wrong that’s why I love art
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Tom Cruise and Oprah talked on TV for 43 minutes. “Tom Cruise Kills Oprah” was 15 seconds. Even the longer YouTube clips of Cruise on Oprah’s couch clock in at only four minutes. Yet it was the latter two that were shared, discussed and remembered. How YouTube and Internet Journalism Destroyed Tom Cruise, Our Last…
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MIT professor Fox Harrell works to enrich the subjective and ethical dimensions of the digital media experience. Unlike most people, MIT’s Fox Harrell knew what he wanted to do in life from a young age. According to Harrell, an associate professor of digital media who studies self-expression in online media and creates tools to help…
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elmerseason: kontam: Caetano Veloso wearing one of Hélio Oiticica’s Parangolés Parangolé is a slang Portuguese term which translates into a spectrum of ideas and events related to “idleness, a sudden agitation, an unexpected situation, or a dance party.”(1) Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica (1937-1980) created textile based structures designed to be worn and activated by the wearer.…
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emergentfutures: “The concept of habit enfolds an enormous richness and diversity of meanings. According to Husserl, habit, along with association, memory, and so on, belongs to the very essence of the psychic. Husserl even speaks of an overall genetic “phenomenology of habitualities”.In this paper, as an initial attempt to explicate the complexity of phenomenological treatments…
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Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior. Marshall MuLuhan (via ryanpanos)