February 2012
25 posts
Whitney Biennial Removes Two Sponsors For... →
“The Whitney will find a way to open the 2012 Biennial in spite of the Museum’s difficult decision to break with the two major corporate sponsors of the Biennial. Regretfully, the Whitney entered into a sponsor agreement with Sotheby’s before the auction house locked out forty-three of its unionized art handlers once their contract expired in July 2011. Last year saw record-breaking sales with...
“Wired Consulting will be a bespoke business consultancy, sharing its “access and...”
– The power of consultancy to make even seasoned journalists start talking in meaningless managementspeak never ceases to amaze. You’d think that speaking-in-English would be the obvious way for journalists to differentiate themselves in this market. I guess not.
Condé Nast U.K. Launches Wired...
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WatchDelancey Underground Kickstarter campaign. This is a really amazing project.
Take the unused underground space of an abandoned trolley terminal on the Lower East Side.
Use new solar technology to transform it into an underground public park.
Great to see all of Dan and James’ work coming together.
If you’re a New Yorker, are interested in urban design or just want to see a really...
“But lets think about this for a second and turn this around a little bit.What if...”
– Jazz musician Dave Golberg has written an open letter to L.A. club owners.
Why don’t you play out more, Grant? Well.
(via grantimatter)
foundmusic:
Bob Dorough - Three Is a Magic...
“There is a widespread belief that we have beat a lot of problems by “getting...”
– Why doesn’t the right-wing favor looser monetary policy? — Marginal Revolution (via wonklife)
“I entered academia at the moment when the way power works in the modern world...”
– In Conversation with Adam Curtis, Part I | e-flux
This is cool, but holy shit, this interview gets so good. Adam Curtis is so good at seeing the big picture, and so energetic and enthusiastic about ways of picturing it.
Also, what he’s talking about sounds like pure Foucault, so you know, the...
“The modern world saps our lives of chronology. The city’s surfaces - those that...”
– Rory Gibb (via thepapercity)
School Redesign vs. School Reform « Cooperative... →
So if the current system requires conformity and compliance; yet we know that humans need autonomy, mastery and purpose to be motivated, will reforming elements of the system really achieve the desired result? Or does the entire system need to be re-designed?
Schools that honor the developmental needs of kids and “the schools our kids deserve”[2] contain many if not all of the following...
Linguistic relativity →
bobulate:
How language affects economic behavior has been hotly discussed of late, primarily due to an unpublished paper from Yale economist Keith Chen on the same:
Chen […] thinks that if your language has clear grammatical future tense marking […], then you and your fellow native speakers have a dramatically increased likelihood of exhibiting high rates of obesity, smoking, drinking, debt, and...
“But the book does not exist to restore humanity to an ‘undercity’ (Boo’s word)...”
– Supriya Nair on Katherine Boo’s new book (via ayjay)
Lapham's Quarterly: Great Sound, What Do You Call... →
laphamsquarterly:
“Darling, won’t you put on the Klangophone this evening? I do so feel like dancing!”
Like any smart inventor, Thomas Edison knew that his new audio device needed a name, a catchy name. Lists of Note has the original cheat sheet of all of the rejected names for what eventially became the…
vanishing & disappearance: popnarrative: Needing... →
popnarrative:
Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for…
January 2012
52 posts
“We see a future where world-leading educators are at the center of the education...”
– Stanford professors Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng, whom worked on Stanford’s free online classes, succinctly sum up the digital educational opportunity I’ve been trying to describe. Koller and Ng are starting a new company to help things along. (via dbreunig)
“I’ve framed this as “in the future your children will be servants and nannies,”...”
– Reihan (via pegobry)
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WatchColin Marshall, beloved host of The Marketplace of Ideas, has a Kickstarter campaign for his new project. Support Notebook on Cities and Culture.
“The home schooling movement, by contrast, has no access to funding nor any...”
– Noah Millman » Textbook Cases (via ayjay)
“I feel like there’s a red pill and a blue pill, and you can take the blue pill...”
– Tenured Professor Departs Stanford, Hoping to Teach 500,000 Students at Online Start-Up - The Chronicle of Higher Education (via davemorin)
Sound Romance: →
solarflares:
Any past or DISAPPEARING SOUND remembered nostalgically, particularly when idealized or otherwise given special importance. Whereas new sounds are often experienced as SOUND PHOBIAs, old or past sounds are often elevated to the category of sound romances in memory. Many such sounds were often regarded as unimportant when actually current; yet later, hearing them may trigger strong...
“…he [she] is forced to represent the individual as a completely passive victim...”
– Jean Baudrillard, Selected writings (1988)
reflagged from Nicolas Nova at Pasta & Vinegar: Baudrillard on the difficulty to grasp people’s needs
(via culturalbytes)
“This idea of Big vs. Small government has got to go. It’s non-sensical. What I...”
– Clay (via brycedotvc)
“All I can think is: we gave you the Internet. We gave you the Web. We gave you...”
– Nat (via brycedotvc)
Watchshortformblog:
In case you missed it: Chris Hayes’ roundtable on SOPA is a must-watch, as it directly tackles the major issues around the legislation and explains them in a very effective way, including honestly dealing with the issues his employer, NBC Universal, has with the legislation. (Richard Cotton, one of the major figures representing NBC Universal in the SOPA fight, is part of the...
“Piracy” is the new “think of the children” - an illogical emotional appeal whose...”
– Barrett Garese
(via kenyatta)
15 things learned from watching all the movies on... →
austinkleon:
For the past 5 or 6 years, my friend James Flynn has been making his way through the movies on the WGA’s 101 greatest screenplays list and blogging about them. Here’s a list of 15 things he’s learned.
“On October 23, 2008, Dobson published a “Letter from 2012 in Obama’s America”...”
– James Dobson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Here’s what we have to look forward to this year, with love from the founder of Focus on the Family.
(via rickwebb)
Not Great Men
thenewinquiry:
Georges Simenon’s The President shows how history swallows its agents
by Rob Horning
With its focus on a destabilized European government, currency manipulation, and the frailty of technocracy, Georges Simenon’s novella The President seems a surprisingly timely book, especially considering it was originally published more than 50 years ago. The scene in which Simenon describes...
“He played Scrabble on Facebook almost the entire time; I learned some Scrabble...”
– Cloud Nothings’ Dylan Baldi talks about working with famed studio man Steve Albini. (via pitchfork)
“Without respect to the electoral politics and messaging for a moment, the...”
– Jim Manzi summarizes the problem neatly. (via pegobry)