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“Foucault defines the event as something that has a beginning and an end. Every human experience, activity, idea and cultural form can be analysed as an event or as a series of events. Foucault uses this concept as a way of arguing against metaphysical essences in history. It is important to emphasise that his notion…
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Sometimes in meetings, I sense people seizing up, not wanting to even talk about changes, so I try to trick them. I’ll say, ‘This would be a big change if we were really going to do it, but just as a thought exercise, what if …’ Or, ‘I’m not actually suggesting this, but go with…
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Over time these folk tales have been subtly changed and have evolved just like an biological organism. Because many of them were not written down until much later, they have been misremembered or reinvented through hundreds of generations. By looking at how these folk tales have spread and changed it tells us something about human…
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Comcast plans data limits for all customers | WTVR.com
Comcast plans data limits for all customers | WTVR.com thaumatropia: wilwheaton: Comcast is considering imposing monthly usage limits for all of its Internet customers. David Cohen, executive vice president of America’s largest cable company, predicted at a conference Wednesday that in five years’ time, the company will have “a usage-based billing model rolled out across…
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kateoplis: “I’m thinking about you. What else can I say?” “Outside the windowthey’re building the damn hotel,nail by nail, someone’scrumbling dream. A universe that includes youcan’t be all bad, butdoes it? At this distanceyou’re a mirage, a glossy imagefixed in the postureof the last time I saw you.Turn you over, there’s the placefor the address.…
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i-gen: Lola Rennt poster (French version), 1998 when cinema adopts videogame tropes
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nprplays: From Polygon: Escape from Woomera still highlights Australia’s shame 11 years on Escape from Woomera, a first-person point-and-click game in which players tried to break out of the Woomera Immigration Reception and Processing Center (better known as the Woomera Detention Center), made its way around the world, and the Australian government – despite its best…
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ted: Every week, cartoonist / math nerd / former NASA roboticist Randall Munroe tries to answer the weird questions that keep people up night. How? Math, science and comics, obviously. The guy behind the webcomic xkcd, Munroe has tackled a lot of weird questions — involving dinosaurs, soda, and expanding clouds of plasma. But one question…
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carlagannis: laughing out loud