Sublime

One result of all this attention to e-waste and supply chains is that examples of non-Western improvisation are now often adapted, appropriated, or fetishized in the West. Designers and artists express fascination with “informal” and “entrepreneurial” design practices, or with favela “bricolage” and marginalized “maker” cultures. This can lead to... See more

set of remarks Postman delivered in 1988 titled "Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change." In it, he explores five insights about technology that every builder and user of technology needs to know:

1. All technological change is a trade-off.


2. The advantages and disadvantages of new technologies are never distributed evenly among the

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There will be dust. There is always dust. By that I mean there is always time, and materiality, and decay. Decomposition and damage are inescapable. There is always the body, with its smears and secretions and messy flaking bits off. There is always waste and it always has to be dealt with, and shipping it out of sight overseas to the developing... See more