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MySpace linked the digital geography of the Internet to the offscreen world in other ways. You connected your account to your friends’ accounts by “friending” them, building a map of your preëxisting IRL relationships, and the site prompted you to choose a “Top Friends” ranking of eight people whose names appeared first in the list. The feature... See more
Kyle Chayka • Coming of Age at the Dawn of the Social Internet | The New Yorker
When information is brushed against information the results are startling and effective. The perennial quest for involvement, fill-in, takes many forms.
— Marshall McLuhan, The Medium Is The Massage
Reggie James • The Body As Mixer
How did Donella meadows navigate this spectrum? See her laws for system thinking
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The excerpt explores the contrast between two types of thinkers or philosophers—labeled as “prickly” and “gooey”—based on their approach to understanding and interpreting the world.
1. Philosophy vs. Science:
• The first part suggests that philosophy fills the
... See moreSister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993) ⭐ 5.7 | Comedy, Family, Music
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Decoding Cryptic Texts with Lovie Simone & Michael Cooper Jr. | FOREVER | Netflix
youtube.com“What I’m interested in is deep aesthetics: the universal or near-universal forms that elicit deep, subconscious positive or negative emotional responses. These deep aesthetics are changing, too, but not nearly fast enough to keep pace with rapid technological, political, and social upheaval around us.”... See more
– Lane Rettig, on the importance of studying
