Kalyani Tupkary
@kalyanitupkary
I design objects and interfaces - sometimes real, sometimes fictional.
Kalyani Tupkary
kalyanitupkary.com
jzhao.xyz
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My methods meander between academia and Silicon Valley: I explore theories by expressing them in real-world systems, which produce insights I use to improve the theories, which I use in turn to improve the systems, and so on.
https://andymatuschak.org/
You make it (somewhat) arbitrary. Divide the world into 24 time zones, and slowly force people — often through colonial might — to abide by one, standard time for an entire wedge. Do it in the name of commerce, of travel, of ease of communication, of ease . Fast-forward a century and a half, and this rational/irrational time is just the way
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Your Mating Call Is Important To Us: A Sonic Apothecary for Synanthropes – Theatrum Mundi
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What used to be specific events or activities, like answering emails, have gradually become ongoing processes . “Speeding up” a continuous process means to overclock, to intensify; it can’t ever mean to end or conclude
Fuck Theory • Time Capsules — Real Life
The development that really established the seven-day week as insurmountable, Henkin contends, came in the middle of the twentieth century: the television schedule.
Jill Lepore • How the Week Organizes and Tyrannizes Our Lives
conviction comes with clarity
The Museum of Endangered Foods | Sharp & Sour
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I n eighty-five essays, contributors nominate “extinct” objects and address them in a series of short, vivid, sometimes personal accounts, speaking not only of obsolete technologies, but of other ways of thinking, making, and interacting with the world. Extinct is filled with curious, half-remembered objects, each one evoking a future that never
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