1 year ago
Homage to reading. Much better than an homage to Oprah.
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2 years ago
“Look at those big, isolated clumps of buildings rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea.”
“The Board schools.”
“Lighthouses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wiser, better England of the future.”
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
2 years ago
Delivery systems are simply and only technologies; media are also cultural systems.
- Henry Jenkins, Cultural Convergence
2 years ago
I learned to drive in order to read Los Angeles in the original
- Reyner Banham, Architecture of Four Ecologies
2 years ago
Transductions
- technicity
- technical elements
- technical ensembles
- originary technicity
- ontogenesis vs ontology
“The technicity of technical element is more mobile or detachable than the technicity of an ensemble which is always in situ”.
»Adrain Mackenzie, Transductions. Bodies and Machines at Speed.
2 years ago
Paul Baran’s diagram of a communication networks, from his RAND paper ‘On Distributed Communication’ (1964)
2 years ago
From The View from the Center of the Universe, by Joel R. Primack, Nancy Ellen Abrams
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2 years ago
Student Information Literacy Self-Assessment, The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2008
2 years ago
[t]he uses to which [appliances] are put are civilization, and without the things the uses would be impossible
- John Dewey, Democracy and Education, III, 4
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