May 2010
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“To take a dose of LSD is all right, and you will have the experience of being...”
– Steps to an Ecology of Mind by Gregory Bateson, University of Chicago Press, [1972]2000, p. 481 [Google books preview]
Think midle eastern wars, energy crisis, Europe financial crisis, unexplainable killing sprees and so forth.
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April 2010
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“« Tout dispositif se définit ainsi par sa teneur en nouveauté et...”
– Deleuze, G. (1988) « Foucault, Historien du présent », Le Magazine littéraire, numéro 257, Septembre 1988, pp. 51-52
“The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever....”
– Point Omega by Don DeLillo, New York: Scribner, 2010, p. 17
And yet, and yet : when one’s alone, “lost in memory”, one could feel compelled to write.
Previously on Skandalon: Point Omega, Don DeLillo.
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March 2010
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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 offers a...
“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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“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. (via skandalon)
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“We think in generalities but we live in details.”
– Alfred North Whitehead
February 2010
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“An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than...”
– Aldous Huxley, quoted in Discovering Evolutionary Ecology: Bringing Together Ecology And Evolution (2006) by Peter J. Mayhew, p. 24 (via skandalon)
Mmm… do I agree? I would say that an intellectual is a person who has discovered something as interesting as sex.
January 2010
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“I’m not afraid to compete. It’s just the opposite. Don’t you see that? I’m...”
– The New Yorker, “Franny” by J.D. Salinger, Jan 29, 1955, pp. 34-35 (via skandalon)
Pokemon for the real world →
Kids can remember hundreds of Pokemon characters but very few animals. The solution? The Phylomon Project is an open source initiative aiming to make Pokemon-type cards for actual animals.
Tumblr vs. Posterous →
“How come [Posterous is] eating dust from a small startup started by a high school dropout?
The answer is as easy as it is counter-intuitive: Tumblr is a New York company and Posterous is a Silicon Valley company.
Or, to put it another way: Posterous is an engineered product, while Tumblr is a designed product.”
A Photo Editor - The Beginning Of The End? →
A video made with “98% CGI by a 30 year old dude in Spain with a single PC. It’s beautiful. We’ve all seen a lot of CGI over the years, but it’s usually just a bit off, or just too slick and most of it is really expensive, and requires a team of people to make it look right. But this is different — this is one guy and a PC. Low budget. And he’s not a photographer by training either....
Routing bug in Facebook →
“In each case, the Internet lost track of who was who, putting the women into the wrong accounts. It doesn’t appear the users could have done anything to stop it. The problem adds a dimension to researchers’ warnings that there are many ways online information - from mundane data to dark secrets - can go awry.”
A nice way to communicate tasty snakes of visual... →
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urbanfields :
Skandalon is mainly an iconographic and text archive related to communication, technology and art. Whenever possible, adequate references are provided.
Urban Fields Kitchen is all about “little snaks of urban imagination”.
Reblog frenzy.
Internet Archeologist Find Ruins Of 'Friendster'... →
A fake video from The Onion about the social site friendster. Something called Facebook happened, but they don’t know.
What will be left of us and how will they interpret it ?
“Scientists at the University of Montreal launched a search for men who had never...”
– Telegraph.co.uk: “All men watch porn, scientists find - Telegraph” by Jonathan Liew, Dec. 2, 2009
What a great title for this article. Science at it’s best.
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“The internet may kill newspapers; but it is not clear if that matters. For...”
– The Economist: “Newspapers and technology: Network effects” Dec 17th, 2009
Interesting article overall. But the quotation above is problematic, for it could be argued that a change of medium would result in a change of message (right Marshall?). The anticipated disappearance of traditional...
Sarah Palin hired by Fox News
This may be the best gift possible to Stephen Colbert and John Stewart. Can’t wait to hear all the crap she’ll be serving to her fanatics.
Does it mean she finally resigned trying to get the 2012 presidency ?
More details at Huffington post.
Innovation is Dead →
December 2009
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“Whatever fortunes our activity might have known, it was Potlatch alone that...”
– DEBORD, Guy (1959). «The Role of Potlatch, Then and Now», Potlatch, no 30, July 15. Translated from the French by Reuben Keehan.
About the site where this translation is hosted: «NOT BORED! is an autonomous, situationist-inspired, low-budget, irregularly published, photocopied journal.»
Potlatch,...
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“On est plus le fils de son époque que le fils de son père.”
– Proverbe Sud Africain