February 2012
21 posts
“The digital divide isn’t just access, but also ability, and quality of...”
– California Dreamin’ | MetaFilter
“The more off the wall, speculative, metaphysical one can be, the more one is...”
– Paul Mason at LSE
“Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their...”
– William Gibson, talking to Wired last week.
What I want to find in such a place is a serious experimental work, between fiction and documentary, by an angry artist who wants to challenge the terms not just of his medium, but of his society….
mrstsk
January 2012
21 posts
Watchstickies I by joe j howe
“… I think it is one of the problems we really need to be thinking about post-independence. How are we going to rejuvenate the Scottish public sphere to provide both a vital forum for debates about our future, and the critical beady eye over those who hold the power in forming our new political and economic inheritance?”
cosmopolitanscum
Argument against Devo-Max
cosmopolitanscum:
“A slave might have a benevolent master, might in practice be able to live as though he were free, but he is still a slave and is as such prone to the vices of servility” (Dan Hind, The Return of the Public)
“Guerrilla libraries are usually a common, a place where materials are held by the community at large for the joint benefit of all members. By their very existence they reject the idea that relationships should be constructed and mediated by a market. They also provide a stark alternative to the vision presented by market theorists of a human nature based in self-interest and...
December 2011
12 posts
“In some circles, if you’re simply grim, dismissive, and temperamental, you can...”
– Graham Harman
