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Parsing Network Effects
Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter Organization After Social Media In the information society passivity rules. Browsing, watching, reading, waiting, thinking, deleting, chatting, skipping, and surfing are the default conditions of online life. Total involvement implies madness to the highest degree. … Continue reading
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Set and Setting: Cognitive Cogitations
A few generalizations… 5.32 Pedagogical situations are sensory. They are also interpersonal. Because they are sensory this makes even learning by oneself interpersonal. Egocentric speech is like a dialogue between the senses. In Vygotsky’s and Luria’s experiments, children placed in … Continue reading
elegance
Diana Vreeland in Allure Fashion is a passing thing — a thing of fancy fantasy, and feeling. Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well-dressed. It’s a quality possessed by certain thoughts and certain animals. […] Elegance … Continue reading
The Fix
Ursula Le Guin In 2014, she attacked publishers, including her own, for treating books as commodities. “The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism,” she told an audience of science-fiction luminaries at … Continue reading
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Thinking Depicting
In the Washington Post of August 12, 2011, under the heading “Reich bows to protest of 9/11 CD cover art” Anne Midgette For the cover of the premiere recording of his searing piece “WTC 9/11” on the Nonesuch label, Steve … Continue reading
on parting from the party
Sometimes an atheist can be holier than thou… AN AFFECTATION IN PARTING. He who wishes to sever his connection with a party or a creed thinks it necessary for him to refute it. This is a most arrogant notion. The … Continue reading
Praising the Damned
Tying freedom and privacy is an exhilaration that masks a fear. If, as Freud remarks, the child’s first successful lie against the parents is his first moment of independence — the moment when he proves to himself that his parents … Continue reading
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Claim and Less
Tim Cestnick writing in The Globe and Mail provides us with a found poem. The list has enormous poetic potential (imagine for example the mere recitation of names (from an old-fashioned telephone book) — very Homeric). And this list culled … Continue reading
Singular Praise of Reduplication
Nietzche from Human All Too Human again … It is an excellent thing to express a thing consecutively in two ways, and thus provide it with a right and a left foot. Truth can stand indeed on one leg, but … Continue reading
Read My Lips: Affirmations
The Very Best of Jimmy Somerville – Bronski Beat and the Communards The liner notes begin with the following comparisons: The first two singles by Bronski Beat, Jimmy Somerville’s first band, were “Smalltown Boy” and “Why?”. They are the gay … Continue reading
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