Ruby-Maude Rioux
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Ruby-Maude Rioux
In anthropology, when there’s no empirical connection between acts and their desired outcomes, “We call this stuff ‘magic,’”
Elizabeth Landau • The Rituals That Ward Off Bad Luck Aren’t Arbitrary
Both artists’ ability to trick the human cognition, and observers’ ability to successfully fall into the illusion is immensely fascinating to me.
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quote by Ayça Akan
Put simply, the masses hate experts. If forced to choose between the advice of the learned and the vague impressions of other people just like themselves , the masses invariably turn to the latter. The upper elites still try to pronounce judgments and lead, but fewer and fewer of those down below pay attention.
Ted Gioia • 15 Observations on the New Phase in Cultural Conflict
Women also have on average a 41% lower grip strength than men, and this is not a sex difference that changes with age: the typical seventy-year-old man has a stronger handgrip than the average twenty-five-year-old woman. It’s also not a sex difference that can be significantly trained away: a study which compared ‘highly trained female athletes’ to... See more
Caroline Criado Perez • Invisible Women: they get the job done
Important reminder on social medias
The media ecosystem is in crisis because social media has a mental illness and traditional media has a physical illness. Today’s dominant social media platforms might make us angry and dumb, but they have functioning business models and, with the exception of X, financial stability. Today’s largest traditional media companies have the opposite... See more
Hamish McKenzie • Jeff Bezos has a business problem
It is a comforting thought that the burning of a puppet could do away with any one person’s problems, to say nothing of an entire city’s — or country’s. Anxiety has a strong anticipatory element: It is predicated on what might happen, what could go wrong. Once a specific future snaps into place, it survives only by attaching to a new object of... See more
One City’s Secret to Happiness: The Annual Burning of a 50-Foot Effigy
View of Embodied Creation and Perception in Olafur Eliasson’s and Carsten Höller’s Projects
journals.aau.dkScientific knowledge, which we have removed from an inspiring or supernatural dream of revelation, can today reveal itself as ‘poetic listening’ to nature and its processes, a means that is available for production and invention in an open, productive and creative world. The time has come for new pacts with nature - pacts which we have entered into with nature since heathen times, but have since forgotten - pacts between human history, society, knowledge and their adventurous investigation of nature.