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Over the past few years, I’ve read many books about creativity, and it’s made me realize the sad truth that most people don’t read books on creativity. And so “to be creative” in the mainstream view is limited to making visual art or music or other artifacts. But when you read books on creativity, you discover a whole process that kindles a lot of... See more
Rebecca • [BIFFS vol. 2] Work as trace
Alan Watts and Joseph Campbell, though they approach the subject from slightly different philosophical angles, both speak to the idea of innate human expression as a fundamental manifestation of life. While neither explicitly focuses on “baby utterances” in their most well-known works, their broader philosophies resonate with the idea that early
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Beauty in architecture
Beauty is one of the most enduring themes of Western philosophy, going all the way back to Vitruvius’ three laws of architecture: firmitas, utilitas, venustas (solidity, utility, beauty). But when I was in architecture school, no one talked about beauty in architecture because it was considered too subjective. What was... See more
Beauty is one of the most enduring themes of Western philosophy, going all the way back to Vitruvius’ three laws of architecture: firmitas, utilitas, venustas (solidity, utility, beauty). But when I was in architecture school, no one talked about beauty in architecture because it was considered too subjective. What was... See more
Architecture Archives - Slow Space
I’ve started to think of “cultural artifacts” and “memes” as particles in a chaotic pressure chamber of social forces. I want to introduce the concept of the meme as “radioactive cultural product” – radioactive because of two properties: radiation and half-life .
MSCHF's Red Boots and Digital Legibility — 13101401 Inc.
Identity wants to emerge
Over the long run, any stable joinable key becomes an identity as it accumulates more correlated information about you.
We see this today in the ads ecosystem, where data brokers and cross-site advertising networks use data joining to correlate information about you and track you around the internet. Email addresses,... See more
Over the long run, any stable joinable key becomes an identity as it accumulates more correlated information about you.
We see this today in the ads ecosystem, where data brokers and cross-site advertising networks use data joining to correlate information about you and track you around the internet. Email addresses,... See more
Gordon Brander • Soulbinding Like a State
Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power since 1500
calculatingempires.net
I wish CDs were still a thing, this the type of album that deserves lines of people waiting to buy