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On maker culture

Once again, Melissa Gregg: The difference with making today is the source of the cultural and financial investment, namely Silicon Valley. The notion that ‘everyone is a maker’ keeps the hacker ethos...

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Body/Mind/Change

“BMC labs and David Cronenberg are going where no biotech startup has gone before. As the film industry struggles to evolve, Cronenberg once again proves that he is ahead of his time – striking an...

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In or around June 1995

I’m just getting around to reading Rebecca Solnit’s provocative essay making allusion to Virginia Woolf: In or around June 1995 human character changed again. Or rather, it began to undergo a...

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Lubetkin’s Penguin Pool in London built in 1934

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Glitch art and the impermanence of digital media

Chis Baraniuk at The Machine Starts writes: Recently Reuters listed several apps which aim to challenge the idea that digital media is eternal. Yet none of this is an embrace of the true glitch. Again,...

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The Booker prize mapped

The Book Globe takes the “setting” for every book that has won or been shortlisted for the Man Booker prize and plugs it in to a Google Map. Interesting to think about what constitutes a “setting” in...

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Ursula LeGuin and speculative design

Anne Galloway has a fascinating essay up on Ethnography Matters: By way of background, I think all ethnographers are taught that Ursula Le Guin’s father was the famous American anthropologist Alfred...

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Olafur Eliasson’s A View Becomes a Window

A View Becomes a Window, 2013 from Studio Olafur Eliasson on Vimeo. Olafur Eliasson’s A View Becomes a Window, created for Ivorypress, is an edition of nine unique, leather-bound books containing a...

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Plus ça change futurism

Rahel Aima on Gulf Futurism: Gulf futurism, as I understand it, is conceptualised in the mould of Marinetti’s Italian futurism, and inherits many of the same touchstones. All of its seductiveness: sun,...

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The Most Forbidden by Kerstin Thorvall

From The Most Forbidden by Kerstin Thorvall “The Most Forbidden” I’m in Rome, alone in a slightly ugly stuffy hotel room. I gave him 200 dollars for him to go away. Two hundred dollars. That’s almost a...

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