Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
When ruins become places for celebration and growth, they challenge the narrative of inevitable decay. They offer us the chance to cultivate Lefebrve’s ideas of “the right to the city” through the experience of everyday inhabitation.
Joanna Hoffman • Futures From Ruins
Nonetheless, the entrenched pathways as well as the continuing plurality of these ideas and practices in local and popular society have managed to sustain alternative visions of life, the world and transcendence in these societies, frequently in conversation with other circulatory fragments.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
destabilization of the self as its anchors in material culture slip.
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
The West, he writes, exports its economic and cultural models everywhere in the name of universality
Jonathan Crary • Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
This is one of the ways that modernity colonizes both physical and imaginative landscapes.
Vanessa Machado De Oliveira • Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism
de Certeau poses questions that we as scholars and teachers need to consider—the ways we justify our own positions as critics,
Henry Jenkins • Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture
“Are ‘smart devices’ really smart, or are they rather making people more stupid?”
Arturo Escobar • Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century)
“cyborgs por naturaleza”