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Is language is a purely cultural phenomenon or not? Obviously it's the most successful...
From folkert
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Project Proposal: There are hundreds of thousands of books published every year. Many are...
From Rourke
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In the chapter titled Author as Producer of Walter Benjamin's Reflections, he introduces Sergei Tretiakov's 'operating writer', and how his/her mission, as opposed to the 'informing writer', is "not to report but to struggle; not to play the spectator but to intervene actively". This description is of the author not as activist--because...
From Xárene
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I point at the small cardboard structure on the train's table. The guard stands blankly and...
From Robokku
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While looking for our book club books at Counterpoint I came across Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur...
From matthewspencer
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Wildcard
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Digital Skins Body Atmospheres by...
A Fashion Futures Film set in 2050. Couture becomes a biological experience, gowns are assembled by gas and nano-electronic-particles, where tailoring and cosmetics are constructed by 3D liquid formations, including swallowable technologies exciting the mind, body and soul through physical...
 
The Library of Alexandria was an enormous repository of ancient wisdom situated in Egypt. Due to...
From dmitri
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Project:
Polytopia
 
Readers: Do you think in hypertext? The era of the linear tome is dead, information is a web -...
From Rourke
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Today I was reading an interesting style website and they report that analyses: Robot love...
From LED
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Nary a post goes by when I don't feel compelled to share a relevant book. I'd like to propose a collective recommended reading list, and in beginning this list I'll paraphrase the first page of my first recommendation. It's from a book called "The Black Swan" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Many people, when they see an immense...
From FrankLloydWrong
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If you haven't read any Buckminster Fuller, you need to get on it. I don't think you...
From sjef
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Via NewScientist.com 1. Farthest North - Steve Jones, geneticist 2. The Art of the Soluble -...
From A0013237932294
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Your average 'alternative' 'underground' 'cult' summer booklist will name conservative corkers like William Gibson, Hunter S. Thompson, Ken Kesey, Aldous Huxley, Thomas Pynchon, Kathy Acker, Hubert S. Selby or Brett Easton Ellis. A 'real' underground list might add snotty punk-fashionistas like Stewart Home or Henry Rollins. But if you have read...
From wilfriedhoujebek
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This post is meant for those who are in the strange habit of finishing what they start. All others...
From alborz
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I am a bad reader. Slow, ill-disciplined, with a wandering mind. I will rarely manage a...
From Robokku
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I added a comment to this post today, about photographs of libraries. I reproduce it here. I...
From Robokku
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I was thinking about Spaceweaver’s post about immortality and remembered that in the early...
From LED
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http://www.home-2009.com/us/index.html IN A FEW SHORT DECADES, HUMANITY HAS UPSET THE BALANCE...
From alert
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The material and the spiritual are so closely entwined in the human mind that making meaning for...
From Mariana Soffer
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Project:
What happened to nature?
 
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred...
From rene
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As I'm sure many of you are aware, the COS (Church of Satan, not be confused with Cult of...
From dragon
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I havn't been fortunate enough to finish reading this book yet. Regardless, this book has provided...
From James Dunlop
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I've just discovered Twine.com, a socially semantic web organiser of data, in 'twines'. Apparently...
From meika
3 comments  1   
 
I rarely share CNN stuff; they suck in journalism. But this little window into Shishmaref, Alaska...
From Xárene
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What is the meaning of meaning? We can view meaning at two levels. First, it is a cognitive...
From Mariana Soffer
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Western intellectual tradition looks at Body and Mind as separate things existing in different...
From rene
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Project:
Branding the Species
 
The following are thumbnail versions of my bound book since the full size would not fit and would...
From cyang
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Outstanding Reading Material I have carefully selected a few of the outmost important texts on...
From Wildcat
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In homage to a thinker who's storytelling indeed creates realities. Excerpts from the short story...
From Fast T
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Information overload It is great to have access to huge amounts of information, but since we are...
From Mariana Soffer
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People are fascinated by language. An enormous amount has been discovered about language in...
From Mariana Soffer
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Documenting Graphic Language I'm going to post on this space a series of graphic design work that I think is relevant to be documented. I started with Lou Dorfsman's work. The idea is post relevant images that exemplify how the terrestrials communicate apart from vocal language.
From Athila
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“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh....
From Wildcat
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We have constructed a ladder of how to think about – about what? Oh, yes, the pattern which...
From Spaceweaver
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If ever there was a book I read that "Defined Reality", Then Brian Greene's The Fabric of...
From James Dunlop
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"Reality has no opposite. Reality IS. NIRVANA IS." (emphasis appears in original) This...
From greatgrey
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From Holzmeister
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by Kristin Feireiss (Editor), Lukas Feireiss (Editor) "Editorial Reviews Product...
From LED
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“There was a time when it was not technology alone that bore the name techné... Once there was a...
From Rourke
1 comment  5   5 
Project:
Proposal for a multimedia playground
 
With new technology comes new possibilities to execute technique. If we look to the trend of...
From Michael Gaio
1 comment  3   3 
Project:
Polytopia
 
City of Words by Vito Acconci, 1999
From HackerLastPip
1 comment  4   1 
Project:
Polytopia
 
Here is another beautiful animated visualization of a collaborative project on the...
From carel
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"There's more time between Gobekli Tepe and the Sumerian clay tablets [etched in 3300...
From TherealGaryHill
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i am desperate to find participants from the arts, design, architecture etc. communities....
From amzamz
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A collection of essays by great thinkers and doers of the "third culture" in response to an annual question posed by Edge.
From Xárene
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From bcnaf
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Documenting Graphic Language No.2 - Armin Hofmann "Critical thinking comes as a result of...
From Athila
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It is possible that writing has an intrinsic relationship with lines of flight. To write is to trace lines of flight which are not imaginary, and which one is indeed forced to follow, because in reality writing involves us there, draws us in there. To write is to become, but has nothing to do with becoming a writer. That is to become something...
From Counterform
 
Long ago... No one tore the ground with ploughshares or parcelled out the land or swept the sea...
From First Dark
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Few weeks ago I was reading one of a dozen bulletins that I subscribe and also thinking about a...
From LED
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