April 2012
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Return That Lawn Mower: Housing Recovery Could Be...
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If you dream of owning a home and have your own patch a land to call your own, well, you can just get that idea out of your head right now, you silly dreamer (If you’re a new grad, that cardbox is as close as you’re going to get to home ownership).
In an interview with Reuters Index (via HuffingtonPost.com), Robert Shiller, a Yale economics professor and co-creator of the Standard...
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Watchguerilaz:
All Of Earth’s Traffic Visualized
This video details ALL of the roads, air, and ship routes that cover the entire planet.
A 3-minute journey through the last 250 years of our history, from the start of the Industrial Revolution to the Rio+20 Summit. The film charts the growth of humanity into a global force on an equivalent scale to major geological processes.
The film is part of...
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UK lurches back into recession 0.2% GDP fall... →
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The UK has slumped back into recession with official data confirming a 0.2 per cent fall in GDP growth in the first quarter of the year. The news will dismay the Treasury which has seen its austerity-based economic plan put under pressure as growth has slowed. It confirms a ‘double-dip’ – a scenario seen in previous economic slowdowns when a second slump follows an initial...
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Why Are (Most) Artists (So Fucking) Poor? →
alwaystheartist:
Image by the awesome William Powhida.
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“At the heart of Ranciere’s long polemic with Bourdieu is an assumption that...”
– Peter Hallward, “Staging Equality,” in Rockhill and Watts, eds., Jacques Ranciere: History, Politics, Aesthetics, 156 (via rogueish)
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“In a given day we translate roughly as much text as you’d find in 1 million...”
– Breaking down the language barrier—six years in - Google Translate Blog (via infoneer-pulse)
Schizophrenia may be a factor in the evolution of... →
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timeimmemorial:
I love to write, and not speak, and when I write it’s by hand, not on a typewriter. Several factors contribute to this choice. First there is a refusal: my body refuses to speak out loud to … nobody. Unless I’m certain that another body is listening to me, my voice gets stuck, I can’t get it out. If, in a conversation, I notice that that somebody isn’t listening to me, I stop...
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“Theory means getting off on immobilization… What gives you theoreticians a...”
– Jean-François Lyotard, Libidinal Economy (1974)
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“The Canadian government launched an e-currency, MintChip, which will allow...”
– Canada Launches A Digital Currency [Headlines] - PSFK (via myserendipities)
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Sleepless, possessed, almost happy, I reflected that there is nothing less material than money, since any coin (a twenty centavo piece, for instance) is, in truth, a panoply of all possible futures. Money is abstract, I said over and over, money is future time. It can be an evening just outside the city, or a Brahms melody, or maps, or chess, or coffee, or the words of Epictetus, which teach the...
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Men meet together for many reasons in the course of business. They need to instruct or persuade each other. They must agree on a course of action. The find thinking in public more productive or less painful than thinking in private. But there are at least as many reasons for meetings to transact no business. Meetings are held because men seek companionship or, at a minimum, wish to escape the...
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“All in all, Heidegger’s philosophy is an example of Herrschaftswissen [roughly...”
– Leszek Kołakowski (1981), Main Currents in Marxism, Vol. 3: The Breakdown (via doubtlr)
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“Insubordination, if not extended to the domain of images and words, is still no...”
– Georges Bataille, On The Subject of Slumbers (via aidsnegligee)
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Microchip success for bionic eye
Research to restore sight to the clinically blind has reached a critical stage, with testing underway of the prototype microchips that will power the bionic eye.
Electrical engineers from the Monash Vision Group (MVG) have begun trialling the microchips, with early laboratory tests proving positive, and pre-clinical assessment due to begin shortly.
The Director of MVG, Professor Arthur...
“I have never really felt justified in existing as an intellectual; and I have...”
– Pierre Bourdieu, Pascalian Meditations (via robert-brydie)
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Lyotard discerns a split in Marx’s libidinal economy between an obsession with the textual ‘prosecution’ of capital – the ‘old man’ Marx, the ‘accuser’ – and a continual deferral of the conceptual and practical elaboration of the proletariat – the ‘girl Marx’ who desires the communist reconciliation of humanity with nature. Lyotard sees a model of bad conscience operating in this tension, and a...
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The politics of the libidinal philosophy revolves around a nuanced reading of Marx and a duplicitous relation to capitalism. While Lyotard has given up on the possibility and desirability of a socialist revolution, he is still interested in the deployment of revolutionary desires. Libidinal Economy contains a reading of Marx’s texts as works of art, an emphasis which seeks to release the...
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For Lyotard (1974), the ideological works through the multiplication of desire and libidinal energies rather than their repression and distortion. In this respect his work has clearer parallels with Foucault’s History of Sexuality (1990) or Bataille’s ideas about heterology…than with psychoanalytic work such as that of the Frankfurt School. The image he conjures up is of society regulated by, and...
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gainfulunemployment:
“The investigators next counted all of the syllables in each of the recordings and further analyzed how much meaning was packed into each of those syllables. *** With this raw data in hand, the investigators crunched the numbers together to arrive at two critical values for each language: the average information density for each of its syllables and the average number of...
“We’re entering a world that is going to be so data-mined it will be...”
– ‘Me.EDU’: Debating the Coming Personalization of Higher Ed - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education (via infoneer-pulse)
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Demystifying Conducting: The Connection Between... →
endofinquiry:
Alan Gilbert, music director of the New York Philharmonic, demonstrates and discusses the role of a conductor.
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