December 2009
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“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for...”
– Aldous Huxley
via nihilnoetia & wildcat2030
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“What would happen if the printed book had just been invented in a high-tech...”
– Juan Villoro, in an article in last month’s adn CULTURA (an Argentinian culture magazine) about the “future of books.” via Photography Prison + Darius Himes
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“Definitions of the intellectual are many and diverse. They have, however, one...”
– Zygmunt Bauman, Legislators and Interpreters: On Modernity, Post-Modernity and Intellectuals (via fuckyeahtheorists)
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“We often hear folks argue that “Art is my life,” but that is hyperbole. It might makes sense in the context by which generally they mean that they’ve made a series of decisions to ensure their practice within the art world remains front and center to where and how they live, how they socialize, what they do with their free time, etc. Art isn’t actually anybody’s life, even if it dominates...
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The Cranberries - Will You Remember?
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“Half the battle of being a poet is trying to transform what would otherwise be...”
– Christian Bök
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“The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An...”
– Aristotle: Metaphysics (translated by W. D. Ross)
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“We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are...”
– Otto Neurath
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November 2009
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What is Web 3.0? Semantic Web & other Web 3.0... →
nogoodreason:
collection of some good slideshare presentations on web 3.0
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Noam Chomsky on Higher Education and Privatization →
“I had a startling experience a few weeks ago. I travelled to Mexico City for talks at the National University, an enormous and very impressive institution with high standards of achievement and scholarship. Entrance is selective, but the university is virtually free. I then visited an even more remarkable institution, the college in Mexico City established by former mayor Lopez Obrador. ...
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“Money is essentially credit, a belief system, in which we participate in practice so long as we treat money as valuable. This means that money is also debt. Every time we handle money, we handle someone else’s debt or obligation. Modern money is valuable because someone else is promising to pay, and they are trusted. What are they paying, and to whom? They promise to pay back the loan with...