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Explicitly drawing on black traditions of family, he imagined a partnership, extended kin networks, friendships, and gay social worlds as constituting something more vital.
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
to the subject in a roundabout
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
A project was said to “ask questions about” or “draw attention to” a topic, without any obligation to formulate conclusions or provide an easily digestible message.
With hindsight, we can see that the nonlinearity of digital hypertext and poststructuralism cut two ways: On the one hand, it helped to dismantle master narratives; on the other, it
... See moreDarwin’s notebooks lie at the tail end of a long and fruitful tradition that peaked in Enlightenment-era Europe, particularly in England: the practice of maintaining a “commonplace” book. Scholars, amateur scientists, aspiring men of letters—just about anyone with intellectual ambition in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was likely to keep
... See moreSteven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
This digital commonplace book is what I call a Second Brain.