July 2012
61 posts
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“Here’s the thing about gaze: it pokes out of the local (“lonely”) coordinate...”
– Virtual Sentience Requires a Gaze « Virtual Body Language
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“it is not the body that is the source of alienation, but the speech that ascends...”
– Side Effects: The Speaking Body
“It’s not an engineering problem, in other words – it’s a greed...”
– Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math | Politics News | Rolling Stone
‘The Voice’ by Thomas Hardy, from...
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“The link between blindness and cartography makes more sense than one might...”
– 574 - Lines in the Darkness: An Atlas for the Blind | Strange Maps | Big Think
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“anything that you see in the real world needs to be in our database“
“It is contagious, this transformation of mere things, such as tires, into living...”
– Mik Taussig - The Stories Things Tell And Why They Tell Them | e-flux
“world history itself “is, as it were, the great dark book, the collected...”
– The Great Dark Book: Menticulture Blog
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“Recent years have seen critical books and media commentary on our alienating...”
– What the WELL’s Rise and Fall Tell Us About Online Community - Howard Rheingold - The Atlantic
“I need
only remark that it is by no means unusual, upon comparing
the thoughts...”
– Critique of Pure Reason (Paralogisms)
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“everything is a poetic reality outside the mind
everything in the cosmos can...”
– ASK/TELL: Interview with Graham Harman
“when will passwords serve some higher purpose? They’re being left behind in the...”
– Secrets We Share With Distant Servers | Motherboard
“SoundTransit is a collaborative, online community dedicated to field recording...”
– Networked_Performance — Turbulence.org Relaunches SoundTransit Project
“This isn’t a design or product question. It’s a philosophical...”
– Exclusive: Matias Duarte on the philosophy of Android, and an in-depth look at Ice Cream Sandwich | The Verge
