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Leopold Lambert on Architecture and Occupation

Posted on 05/15/2013 by

Occupation is a second way that architecture is used to serve military purposes. Of course one could think of the Roman Legion’s settlement and some other temporary military structures; nevertheless, it seems more interesting here to understand the word military … Continue reading →

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Sam Biddle on Google Glass Evangelism

Posted on 04/30/2013 by

There’s no clear answer as to why Scoble has hundreds of thousands of followers across Twitter and Facebook, given that he’s just a guy who works for a data hosting company. This isn’t one of the great minds of our … Continue reading →

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Olof Dreijer on Ally Responsibility

Posted on 04/22/2013 by

We’ve been talking about the importance of making your privileges transparent in order to be able to say something political. It’s something I learned from reading about intersectionality, which is a way to analyze power by looking at its different … Continue reading →

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Thacker on Life

Posted on 04/17/2013 by

This third kind of life, the”nameless thing” so often described by Lovecraft, is a paradigm for the concept of life today. The concept of life encompasses so much, from the most reductive biological viewpoint to the most open-ended ethical or … Continue reading →

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Philip K. Dick’s Coffee Robot

Posted on 04/10/2013 by

“One postcred please,” the speaker said. It began to tick ominously. “Or in ten seconds I will notify the police.” He passed the postcred over. The ticking stopped. “We can do this without your kind,” the speaker said. “One of … Continue reading →

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Richard Cobbett on Bioshock 2

Posted on 04/08/2013 by

The list goes on, but its most important element is that where BioShock was ultimately the story of a city, BioShock 2 is the story of its people – and in particular, a father and daughter relationship. On the surface … Continue reading →

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Parikka on material incompatibility

Posted on 03/20/2013 by

Forget smooth, start with the rough. What if we assume a fundamental incompatibility? What if we assume that by their nature, things don’t fit in? Not with the world, not with themselves; incompatibility is not a contingency or if it … Continue reading →

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Tom Chick on Sim City Societies and Conditioning

Posted on 03/13/2013 by

Some buildings apply conditioning, which pushes a citizen’s happiness level toward the middle. If your city is miserable, conditioning can be an effective way to keep everyone from rioting. It will tamp down the upper level of happiness as well. … Continue reading →

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Vorpalizer on fantasy film and worldbuilding

Posted on 03/12/2013 by

The great temptation, the fatal temptation, of adult fans of fantastic fiction is the temptation of Law. We want the contents of our imagination taxonomied and classified, ordered and indexed, subject to rules and regulations. Gaps exist to be filled. … Continue reading →

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Bob Plant on Foucault on Sadomasochism

Posted on 03/04/2013 by

Let me be clear, I am not suggesting that S&M necessarily involves malice (or that its practitioners naturally harbor some ‘deep violence’), but rather that the possibility of such non-strategic eventualities has a productive function here. That a specific game could degenerate … Continue reading →

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