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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Who is doing this kind of research as leisure activity? Artists, often. To return to the site that originally inspired this post—I’d say that the artist/designer/educator Laurel Schwulst uses Are.na to develop and refine particular themes, directions, topics of inquiry...some of which become artworks or essays or classes that she teaches.
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Celine Nguyen • research as leisure activity

fixation on the executive
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
People who read widely and attentively—and then publish the results of their reading—are also arguably performing research as a leisure activity. Maria Popova, who started writing a blog in 2006—now called The Marginalian —which collects her reading across literature, philosophy, psychology, the sciences. Her blog feels like leisurely research, to ... See more
Celine Nguyen • research as leisure activity

media, research, and analysis.
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
