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For me, the question of how one comes to know, or, indeed, the conditions of the possibility of establishing that one knows, are best answered through turning to a prior question: Who are “we” such that this question becomes a question for us. How has the “we” been constructed in relation to this question of…
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At the start of a new semester, I walk into a math class. My teacher is blond and blue-eyed. I don’t remember his name. When he comes to mine on the roll call, he takes the requisite pause. I hold my breath. “How do I pronounce your name?” he asks. I say, “Just call me…
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fishingboatproceeds: tedx: Does money make you mean? In a talk at TEDxMarin, social psychologist Paul Piff shares his research into how people behave when they feel wealthy. (Hint: badly.) To learn more, watch the whole talk here» I have a theory about this, which is completely unsupported by data and might be totally wrong. I…
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http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isSlim=1 International Table Top Day! April 5, 2014. I’m so there! (Source: http://c.brightcove.com/)
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Reverberating Across the Divide — MADLAB.CC
Reverberating Across the Divide — MADLAB.CC Reverberating Across the Divide reconnects digital and physical contexts through a custom chronomorphologic modeling environment. This modeling interface uses a three phase workflow (3D scanning, 3D modeling, and 3D printing) to enable a designer to craft intricate digital geometries around pre-existing physical contexts. Beautiful 3D printed work from CMU…
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DIGITAL ACTIVISM #NOW conference
DIGITAL ACTIVISM conference Information Politics, Digital Culture and Global Protest Movements King’s College London – April 4th 2014 Confirmed speakers: Clare Birchall, Gabriella Coleman, Paolo Gerbaudo, Joss Hands, Tim Jordan and Guobin Yang Twitter: @KingsDCS Facebook: http://on.fb.me/HXs2Hf Blog: http://wp.me/p1BSEo-29 Sign up at http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-activism-now-tickets-9047139237 The so-called web 2.0 of social network sites was invented as a…
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emergentfutures: Full Story: Anthony De Rosa
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Is it not interesting that so many males in America affect to be warriors? What does this tell us about the psychological dimensions of manhood in this country? If I have to guess, I’d venture that many people of the male persuasion hereabouts can’t imagine any other way of being a man — other than…
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Music is the space between the notes. Claude Debussy + (via mythologyofblue) and typography is the space between the letters
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Notes from “The Robber Bride” by Margaret Atwood
Karen looks at the bicycle, at its glinting spokes and chains and its two black wheels, and knows that her mother is dead. Her mother did not die for another three weeks, but it was the same thing, because sometimes (thinks Charis) there is a fold in time, like the way you fold the top…