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...
View ArticleBody/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...
View ArticleIn 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...
View ArticleGlitch 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,...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleUrsula 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...
View ArticleOlafur 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...
View ArticlePlus 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,...
View ArticleThe 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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