April 2010
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March 2010
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“The Hyperrealist style focuses much more of its emphasis on details and the...”
– “Hyperrealism” article on wikipedia Previously on Skandalon : hyperrealism.
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“It felt real, the pace was paradoxically real, bodies moving musically, barely...”
– Point Omega by Don DeLillo, New York: Scribner, 2010, p. 14 Previously on Skandalon: Point Omega, Don DeLillo.
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“What is considered most fundamental about relationships is their formation and...”
– Leftovers
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“A medium is a medium is a medium. Therefore it cannot be translated. To transfer...”
– Discourse Networks, 1800/1900 by Friedrich A. Kittler, Stanford University Press, [1985]1992, p. 265 [Amazon]“Friedrich A. Kittler (born 1943 in Rochlitz, Saxony) is a literary scholar and a media theorist. His works relate to media, technology, and the military.” (wikipedia) Derrida...
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“Film, he thought, is solitary.”
– Point Omega by Don DeLillo, New York: Scribner, 2010, p. 9 Previously on Skandalon: Point Omega, Don DeLillo.
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“But it was impossible to see too much. The less there was to see, the harder he...”
– Point Omega by Don DeLillo, New York: Scribner, 2010, pp. 5-6 Amazon, Wikipedia“Omega Point is a term coined by the French Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to describe a maximum level of complexity and consciousness towards which the universe appears to be evolving. Teilhard’s term...
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“And so we remember Thursday, March 25, 2010 as the day every English speaking...”
– Innovation is dead: “Wikipedia Crash Experiment” by Alexandre Laurin, March 24, 2010“I suggest to follow the reblogging of the first commentary / joke who was posted on Wikimedia’s status page regarding the Wikipedia crashdown which happened this afternoon:Jimmy :
And so we...
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“Why do leaves commit suicide
when they feel yellow?”
– The Book of Questions by Pablo Neruda, tr. by William O’Daly, Copper Canyon Press, 1991 [Amazon] Previously on Skandalon
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“Let us now consider what happens when you make the epistemological error of...”
– Steps to an Ecology of Mind by Gregory Bateson, University of Chicago Press, [1972]2000, p. 491-492 [Google books preview]
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“Mac OS X is like living in a farmhouse in the country with no locks, and Windows...”
– H-Online: “Mac OS X: ‘safer, but less secure’”, March 18, 2010 The quote is from Charlie Miller, a computer security researcher (he has a Ph.D. in mathematics). Learn more about him on Wikipedia and read this recent interview with him.
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WatchLaura Leu: “making ham at the meat hook” Feb. 5th, 2010“Beat ass with bat until tender. Season and let sit for 20-27 days, and then hang in cool, drafty area of your apartment for 16 weeks. If anyone asks why you have a bloody pig stump hanging from your ceiling, just tell them it’s art noir.” (more) The “Pig Butchering Class” his offered by The Brooklyn...
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“TWO centuries after Gutenberg invented movable type in the mid-1400s there were...”
– The Economist: “A special report on managing information: New rules for big data”, Feb 25th, 2010.
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“Milgram found that 62.5% of his subjects could be encouraged, browbeaten or...”
– Time: “Game of Death: France’s Shocking TV Experiment” by Bruce Crumley, March 17, 2010 Learn more about the “Milgram experiment” on Wikipedia.
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“In the morning I walked to the bank. I went to the automated teller machine to...”
– White Noise by Don DeLillo, Penguin Books, [1985]1986, p. 46 White Noise won the National Book Award in 1985. Learn more about it on Wikipedia.
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“Do you admit to this certainty: that we are at a turning point?
―If it is a...”
– Maurice Blanchot, quoted as the epigraph for Bernard Stiegler’s first volume of his trilogy Technics and Time, tr. R. Beardsworth and G. Collins, Standford University Press, [1994]1998, p. 1 [Amazon] Here’s the French version: — Admettez-vous cette certitude : que nous sommes à un...
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“But there were obstacles. Google’s synonym system understood that a dog was...”
– Wired: “How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web” by Steven Levy, Feb. 22, 2010 Or how Ludwig Wittgenstein helped to improve Google. First spotted via Kottke.
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“Kim Yoo-chul, 41, and his partner Choi Mi-sun, 25, fed their three-month-old...”
– Telegraph.co.uk: “Korean couple let baby starve to death while caring for virtual child” Mar. 5th, 2010
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“A decade later, there’s a new kind of Tamagotchi out there. And it’s us. New...”
– Wired: “You Are a Tamagotchi: Turning Your Health Into a Game” by Thomas Goetz, March 11, 2010“Thomas Goetz is the executive editor of Wired magazine and author of the new book The Decision Tree: Taking Control of Your Health in the New Era of Personalized Medicine. As part of the...
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