February 2012
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“…print both reinforces and transforms the effects of writing on thought and expression. Since the shift from oral to written speech is essentially a shift from sound to visual space, here the effects of print on the use of visual space can be the central, though not the only, focus of attention. This focus brings out not only the relationship between print and writing, but also the...
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“made an origami bag out of a page of a fashion mag for a gift. filled it with glitter, stones & paper clips. covered the outside in stars.”
jesus shit it’s like somebody is running a twitter as a tone-perfect caricature of the person she was at age 16
was worried she was vanished or in trouble but she’s not. was worried she hadn’t learned by now how not to be...
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rejectamentalist manifesto: Stand down: literature... →
tentacular:
Stand down: literature has defeated the Thought Police. Belgium’s supreme court has defeated the mischief-making of the whining PC brigade. Tintin is not banned. Huzzah!
The badness of the bad faith involved in the commentariat’s discussion of this issue, the relentlessness of their categoric…
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_uploading
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_immortality
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_identity
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Conrad and I were talking about computers and putting brains in computers!
A ubiquitous idea in scifi and thinking about transhumanism is the idea of uploading oneself into some artificial medium. Like, theoretically a computer will at some point be able to model a human brain perfectly, and at that point it would be possible to upload your brain into it and then you can be in a computer-body or...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_no_aware
i keep finding things articulated in japanese that i have struggled to articulate in english
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nehru jackets: what i have written for nyc cops →
nehrujackets:
he had the badge ID covered in black tape,
irish dude, spends his weekends in black face
smackin immigrants askin em the how crack tastes
mushed his pregnant wife face while she lactate
overseeing the rat race,
goes to cape cod when manhattan feel too fast paced
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i love this track and how fun to listen to it is until you pay attention to how tragic and awful it...
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figured out a way to make the scene where vattu first sees her name written correlate to the scene where she first gets her head-mark. very excited about that
themes and motifs, i love that shit
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“Writing is a technology”
“By contrast with natural, oral speech, writing is completely artificial. There is no way to write ‘naturally.’ Oral speech is fully natural to human beings in the sense that every human being in every culture who is not physiologically or psychologically impaired learns to talk. Talk implements conscious life but it wells up into the...
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“Male privilege has been with us for — how long? Ten thousand years? A hundred...”
– Sara Robinson, on “Why Patriarchal Men Are Utterly Petrified of Birth Control — And Why We’ll Still Be Fighting About it 100 Years From Now”
Everyone should read this article.
(via coketalk)
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Ong on “The Interiority of Sound” as fundamental to the paradigm-shift that the switch from oral to literate culture represents.
“Sight isolates, sound incorporates. Whereas sight situates the observer outside what he views, at a distance, sound pours into the hearer…. Vision comes to a human being from one direction at a time…. When I hear, however, I gather sound...
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