February 2012
21 posts
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“As an alternative to the idea that we teach “subjects,”… what we really...”
– Dr. Michael Wesch at Digital Ethnography -Subjects or Subjectivites?
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When We Build - Wilson Miner on Vimeo →
This is where Wilson takes us.
Design is the choices we make about the world we want to live in. We choose where to live, what to surround ourselves with, what to spend our time and energy on. We make our world what it is and we become the kind of people who live in it. … everything we make takes up space, creates noise, competes for attention. What do we want to spend more time with...
SOPA, ACTA and WIPO: where is the copyfight... →
Stephen Colbert's SuperPAC hurts the Supreme... →
“I knew in that moment this book was somehow going to create more space inside my...”
– RAWing in the Rain, by Maja D’aoust - Boing Boing’s RAW Week Bonus A sweet little very short story.
“The day goes on picking
the meat from its teeth.”
– Erika L. Sánchez from her poem The Loop via Anti-poetry.com
“Anti- is contrarian, a devil’s advocate that primarily stands against the confinement of poetry in too-small boxes. ” — about Anti-
Super Bowl Chili Recipe with Beer, Black Beans,... →
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The Ceremony of the Whole... at Woolgathersome →
I love little posts like this one. They are like small teachings where words and image create a moment of luminance, awareness … a door.
And then this one and this one.
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“With an entire body at your command, do you seriously think the Future Of...”
– A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
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Today's Smile →
Sounds like it’s from Etsy or Pintrest but it’s not.
via prosthetic knowledge
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A New Chile is Possible » Counterpunch →
Chilean students question the education system as commercial and elitist because it reproduces existing social inequities and makes them worse. But they are not just asking questions: They are practicing the kind of education they have spent years dreaming about and struggling to obtain. “If workers can manage a factory, we can manage the school,” says Cristóbal, 17, as he flashes a smile.
“…rather than scale up successes (the fruits), we should focus on scaling up the...”
– Ewen Le Borgne
Clever-folding tyvek San Francisco map, with... →
Bought one as a gift. Now, I need one of these European bags to match it.
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January 2012
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Time for a Change
Our republic is dangerously out of balance. Well-financed special interests routinely bend the levers of power to benefit the few at the expense of our general welfare.
Join the Rootstrikers.
More backstory in shortform or longform. Or try a tune on TuneTrack.
Time Traveling Teachers in Bold Schools
Thoughts on schools from Mary Ann Reilly (thanks Rob!)
The Now:
Specifying behavior at the edge of a boundary is a most frequent task teachers enact with students in traditional schools for in a regimented world, boundaries are prolific … in order to maintain power.
This is the way you line up to leave the classroom.
This is the way you ask for a pass to use the bathroom.
This is...
A 5 Year-Old Describes What She Sees Looking at... →
I think this child experienced immersive learning!
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Hey, wake up!
Just as newspapers are no longer the only way to get the news, schools are no longer the only way to get an education.
Learning in a Networked World: For our Students, and for Ourselves a slide presentation by Will Richardson
A clear, concise look at the now of education. Well worth your time. With this list you just can’t seriously think school building, textbook and raising your...
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“Ours is not a Congress that has made just one mistake—almost passing SOPA/PIPA....”
– Lawrence Lessig in The Nation. After the Battle Against SOPA—What’s Next? (via protoslacker)
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The Freelance Panoptiswarm | Quiet Babylon →
The new journalists cry, “We will leave, but our drones will be watching.”
This is a good read with a few backposts included.
building nothing out of something →
Why a quarter of the world’s supply of “available aluminum” is sitting in warehouses in Detroit. … because the less metal is released, the more money Goldman makes, primarily off the rent on its warehouses, but also potentially on the commodities exchange.
super interesting stuff via mammoth
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Compromise is epistemologically invalid and... →
… a real effect of compromise is that it prevents intact ideas from being tested and falsified. Instead, ideas are blended with their antitheses into policies that are “no one’s idea of what will work,” allowing the perpetual political regurgitation, reinterpretation, and relational stasis that defines the governance of the United States.
See all of Mills Baker thoughts on design...
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The London Perambulator - documentary →
From the site:
John Rogers’ film looks at the city we deny and the future city that awaits us. Leading London writers and cultural commentators Will Self, Iain Sinclair and Russell Brand explore the importance of the liminal spaces at the city’s fringe, it’s Edgelands, through the work of enigmatic and downright eccentric writer and researcher Nick Papadimitriou - a man whose life is dedicated...
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"Voting is an act of political theater" - Chris...
Turn off your televisions. Ignore the Newt-Mitt-Rick-Barack reality show. It is as relevant to your life as the gossip on “Jersey Shore.” The real debate, the debate raised by the Occupy movement about inequality, corporate malfeasance, the destruction of the ecosystem, and the security and surveillance state, is the only debate that matters. You won’t hear it on the corporate-owned airwaves and...
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Louis Perreault - photographer
My work usually unfolds in a sequential. By building an intuitive photographic series, I want to develop a vocabulary drawing on the real expressions of poetry that is both simple and personal, I am particularly interested in the evocative power held by the photographs, that is ie their ability to say without necessarily naming, brushing against the essence of a thing without touching...
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WatchNot Waving but Drowning by Stevie Smith via Moving Poems
Twitter users threaten boycott over censorship... →
From Twitter:
“Starting today, we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country – while keeping it available in the rest of the world,” the blogpost said, citing the prohibition of pro-Nazi content in France and Germany. The company also said that any user whose tweets were withheld would be notified, and stressed that Twitter’s...
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“We enjoyed the freedom of creating words which went against the grain, which...”
– Tom Konyves referring to his beginnings as a participant in “an alternative to mainstream poetry.” Tom coined the term “videopoetry” in the 1970s. He has recently written a videopoetry manifesto. via Moving Poems
A 7-year-old girl responds to DC Comics' sexed-up... →
from io9
What about this new Starfire?”
“No, I don’t think so.”
“Why not?”
“Because she’s not doing anything.”
smart stuff via Ambling Along the Aqueduct
“I will not take part in this masquerade.”
– European Parliament Official In Charge Of ACTA Quits, And Denounces The ‘Masquerade’ Behind ACTA | Techdirt
“I aspire to the manifestation of living on earth that nurtures, protects and...”
– Found this in my drafts section. It is my mantra for 2012.
Sutras | Integral Life (downloadable audio DJ mix)
