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Often emphasis on identity and lifestyle is appealing because it creates a false sense that one is engaged in praxis. However, praxis within any political movement that aims to have a radical transformative impact on society cannot be solely focused on creating spaces wherein would-be radicals experience safety and support. Feminist movement to end sexist…
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dobooks: Shaping Text: Type, Typography and the Reader Jan Middendorp Shaping Text takes a practical and broad approach to typography. It is aimed at design students and graphic designers, and also at those who are concerned with content: writers, editors, and publishers. Showing a wide range of examples from first-rate designers across the world, the…
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prostheticknowledge: A Computer Learning How To Snowboard Animated data visualisation by Andreas Koller showing the process of a computer exploring and understanding athletic movements, simply and beautifully presented in interactive WebGL – video example embedded below: This screencast shows the process with random values for velocity, take off strength, and X, Y, Z rotations. After…
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Seeing Like a State (public library) by James C. Scott (1998) The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art (public library) by David Lewis-Williams (2002) Crowds and Power (public library) by Elias Canetti (1962) The Wheels of Commerce (public library) by Fernand Braudel (1982) Keeping Together in Time (public library) by William…
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This tension between intellectual work and economic survival is thoroughly mundane and generally taken for granted by those who negotiate it every day; but to look at the history of the past thirty years or so is to be struck by the degree to which the social, cultural, and political trajectory of American life is…