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Category Archives: General Features
Rasmussen on Architecture and History
Thus, in the Spanish Steps we can see a petrification of the dancing rhythm of a period of gallantry; it gives us an inkling of something that was, something our generation will never know. Rasmussen, Experiencing Architecture 136
Posted in Quote Time, Theory
Tagged architecture, quotation, theory
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A List of Podcasts I Listen To
Podcasts are a thing that come up from time to time in conversation, and I always say something like “I like XYZ podcast, you should check it out!” We all know how that kind of talk goes, though, and without … Continue reading
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Tagged podcast, video games
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Rasmussen and Architecture
A painter’s sketch is a purely personal document; his brush stroke is as individual as his handwriting; an imitation of it is a forgery. This is not true of architecture. The architect remains anonymously in the background. Here again he … Continue reading
Sam Biddle on Google Glass Evangelism
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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Tagged quote, technology
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Parikka on Complicity With Anonymous Media
The archaeological method of Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia represents a theory-fiction alternative for media archaeology too. What if we employ the same hallucinatory, inspiring way of investigating the subterranean, the secret, the ground that is not defined by stability but dynamic flux of sediments … Continue reading
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Tagged deleuze and guattari, jussi parikka, reza negarestani, theory
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Olof Dreijer on Ally Responsibility
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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Tagged queer theory, quote, the knife, theory
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Philip K. Dick’s Coffee Robot
“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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Tagged coffee, philip k. dick, quote, robots
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Richard Cobbett on Bioshock 2
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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Tagged bioshock, bioshock 2, bioshock infinite, quote
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Parikka on material incompatibility
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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Tagged jussi parikka, materiality, quote, theory
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An Update on the Blog and a Great Comic Book Moment
As you may know if you follow me on Twitter, I finished a journal submission today and so I am pretty beat (this has been the reason there is less ‘original writing’ going on here at the blog over the … Continue reading
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Tagged comedy, comics, strange adventures
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this cage is worms 