April 2010
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“It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the...”
– Carl Sagan (via scienceisbeauty)
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March 2010
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“..knowledge is not a result merely of filtering or algorithms. It results from a...”
– The Problem with the Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom Hierarchy - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review (via wildcat2030) (via mxmlsm)
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Poem That Had Some Difficulty with the First Line
I’ve always wanted to begin a poem with the line, “I’ve always wanted to begin.” Now I have. Best to end here,
but then the universe is expanding back into its black beginnings, and space, aware of its own looming demise,
is singing of possibilities. I’m almost over, it sings, it’s almost over and sooner or later we’d be left with nothing but...
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“Understanding the history of books, and of the communication of ideas through...”
– David Pearson, Books as History, 2008:38 (via butterflyhunt)
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Antibook by Francisca Prieto
fuckyeahbooks:
You can’t read the poems until you destroy the book and create the paper sculpture.
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“If there was a big bang in the beginning, you’re not something that is the...”
– Alan Watts (via instantplasticmaybe)
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A Man Said to the Universe
A man said to the universe: “Sir I exist!” “However,” replied the universe, “The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.”
Stephen Crane
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“Man-computer symbiosis is an expected development in cooperative interaction...”
– Man-Computer Symbiosis (via wildcat2030)
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“In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but...”
– Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio
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“One of the things our grandchildren will find quaintest about us is that we...”
– William Gibson /via teradome quietbabylon (via spime) (via wildcat2030)
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“There is no evidence that the world is becoming more virtual. The cyber-prophets...”
– Eurozine - MyBrain.net - Geert Lovink The colonization of real-time and other trends in Web 2.0 (via wildcat2030)
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“If you think you know what the hell is going on, you’re probably full of shit.”
– Robert Anton Wilson
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“You imagine that what you can’t understand is either spiritual or does not...”
– Cyrano de Bergerac (via nihilnoetia) (via booklover)
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“I regard the posthuman, like the ‘human’, as a historically specific and...”
– N. Katherine Hayles (2006) Unfinished Work: From Cyborg to Cognisphere, Theory, Culture & Society, 23: pg 160 (via sezpayne)
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"Why is the Information Age Without the Humanities... →
Today is the International Day of Digital Humanities! :D
butterflyhunt:
Reblogged from lddurbin:
This is exactly the kind of thinking that underpins my PhD thesis. Using a knowledge of history to understand the humanistic implications of modern digital media. Stunning article.
If our world is changing, humanists have the tools, knowledge, and concepts to address these changes. Cutting...
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“What we see with digital media is not so much the death of the author, as the...”
– N. Katherine Hayles (2009) Interview with Stacey Cochran, YouTube – 28 March 2009 (via sezpayne)
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