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notational: josh-dangit: An animation I made for my New Art Genres course. This is a rough copy I made to practice using objects and functions. The program can be run and tweaked using the source code here: http://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/118751 A few key features: The car moves slightly up and down based on a sine function, and its…
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Higher education cannot be decoupled from what Jacques Derrida calls a democracy to come, that is, a democracy that must always “be open to the possibility of being contested, of contesting itself, of criticizing and indefinitely improving itself.” Within this project of possibility and impossibility, critical pedagogy must be understood as a deliberately informed and…
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An Updated Version of Algorithms, Robots and the Future of Management
An Updated Version of Algorithms, Robots and the Future of Management emergentfutures: I have updated my blog post with some great information from my friend and colleague Stowe Boyd: “I think business leaders and HR departments do not understand this shift, or the fact that this shift is accelerating, so that in a year or…
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mayhap: Hello Hi There uses the famous television debate between the philosopher Michel Foucault and linguist/activist Noam Chomsky from the Seventies as inspiration and material for a dialogue between two custom-designed chatbots: every evening, these computer programs, designed to mimic human conversations, perform a new – as it were, improvised – live text. As Chomsky and…
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Who Built That Video Game?
Who Built That Video Game? newyorker: Michael Thomsen looks at the outsourcing boom in the video-game industry: http://nyr.kr/1emqPs2 “Simple games like Brain Training, Harvest Moon, and Super Monkey Ball are harder to sell on consoles now that cheaper (or free) variants have emerged for smartphones, tablets, and Facebook….
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emergentfutures: Robots Can’t End Amazon’s Labor Woes Because They Don’t Have Hands The holidays should be a celebratory season for Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer. Instead, the company is facing conflict and tragedy over the work done inside its distribution centers, the massive warehouses where the logistics of holiday package delivery are executed with…