February 2012
30 posts
“A few years ago, when I was beginning to work on my book about the American...”
– Andrew Delbanco (via ayjay)
“My basic argument is that in an economy where the majority of people are...”
– Matt Yglesias on his The Rent Is Too Damn High (via pegobry)
Still Not Going To Do This Every Day: Knight News... →
newschallenge:
Today, and for the following 19 days, the Knight News Challenge is open for business. The theme of the challenge is Networks.
The most common question I’ve been asked since we announced the challenge is exactly what we mean by Networks. We’re trying not to define the…
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...
Watchfretboardjournal:
Our latest documentary, all about the amazing creations of Romero Banjos. Their instruments are simply stunning.
“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…
