August 2009
Copyright fight! The town hall that didn't invite...
http://www.nowtoronto.com/daily/story.cfm?content=171061 Posted via email from Quinn’s posterous | Comment »
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Well that was dumb: Girl Killed as Wave Hits Storm...
From The New York Times: Girl Killed as Wave Hits Storm Watchers A young girl died and nine people were hospitalized Sunday after a rogue wave from Hurricane Bill slammed into a viewing platform near the ocean at Acadia National Park in Maine. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/us/24wave.html Posted via email from Quinn’s posterous | Comment »
Notes on the origins of ideas #anthropology #fb
It is said that Banks’ “Manners and Customs of the South Sea Islands” is a founding document of anthropology, that much maligned study. In it, Banks writes of typical style for the time, “In the Island of Otaheite where Love is the Chief Occupation, the favourite, nay almost the Sole Luxury of the Inhabitants, both the bodies and souls of the women are modeld in the utmost...
The Bibliography Game
bradfidler:
Add up the dental care, awareness ritual, ab worship, anti-oxidizing crusades, watering the earthquake kit, and: we’re switching means for ends as if it were sensual, all together now!
Books are one thing, the books we are meant to read. And I learnt this today. The next time someone asks you if you’ve invested life in a book you haven’t. Act overjoyed: you aren’t shameful, you’re...
On the taint of 'activism'
As I look deeper into the interactions and co-constitutions of economy, power, material, and digitality I frequently butt up against ‘activism’. As someone who gags on populist activism I find myself treading very narrow ground between elitist crypto-activism (perhaps bordering Straussian inversions), and The Coup’s treatment of CEOs. Moving the game into the digital domain...
#philtech Coming out of langur studies in India...
#philtech Coming out of langur studies in India there developed a model of hominid social structure in which the males were at the center, necessary for protection and social construction. Haraway notes that “The logical link to medical-psychiatric therapeutics of social groups should be clear: social disorder implies a breakdown of central adaptational mechanisms.” (p.94, CSW)
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#philtech Coming out of langur studies in India there developed a model of hominid social structure in which the males were at the center, necessary for protection and social construction. Haraway notes that “The logical link to medical-psychiatric therapeutics of social groups should be clear: social disorder implies a breakdown of central adaptational mechanisms.” (p.94, CSW) Posted...