So bright. Where am I, Arizona? (Taken with instagram)
Dogpatch.
Free Ride — By Robert Levine — Book Review - NYTimes.com -
“Copyright skeptics say that if 40 million people refuse to obey a law, the law doesn’t matter; Levine counters that about 40 million speeding tickets are issued each year, and no one says traffic laws don’t matter.”
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Germans do it right.
“In GWEI – Google Will Eat Itself, (2005) UBERMORGEN.COM created a system of economic auto-cannibalism in which the money made by placing Google text advertisements on a network of hidden websites established by the artists is automatically invested in Google’s shares and held in a common ownership trust. By uncovering the complex mechanisms of mass media and how reality is mediated and structured, a new apparatus of control crystallizes: a shapeless force composed not only of corporate and governmental actors, but also of the individuals that feed into networked systems. This shift in responsibility points to our own agency to affect change and emancipate ourselves from the vicious circle of the processes of subjectification in today’s societies.”
Head be swivelin’
Strangely excited for this book.
Captain Supine (Taken with instagram)
Gérard (Taken with instagram)
Quality of life ++
Don’t Door Me
“
Text lasts. It’s not platform-dependant, you don’t just get it from one source, read it in one place, understand it in one way. It is not dependent on technology: it is what we make technology out of. Code is text, it is the fundamental nature of technology. We’ve been trying for decades, since the advent of hypertext fiction, of media-rich CD-ROMs, to enhance the experience of literature with multimedia. And it has failed, every time.
Yet we are terrified that in the digital age, people are constantly distracted. That they’re shallower, lazier, more dazzled. If they are, then the text is not speaking clearly enough. We are not speaking clearly enough. Like over-stuffed attendees at a dull banquet, the mind wanders. We are terrified that people are dumbing down, and so we provide them with ever dumber entertainment. We sell them ever greater distractions, hoping to dazzle them further.
” — The New Value of Text (via ayjay)(via graydongordian)
