May 2012
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“Local real-estate marketer Bob Rennie has seen the trend play out in Vancouver....”
– Professional women go it alone to buy their first Lower Mainland home | Vancouver, Canada | Straight.com “As filtered through condominium ownership, neoliberal ideologies are not freeing women from constraints — they are reinforcing patriarchal norms. This fresh look at urban...
May 18th
Center for 21st Century Studies | Updates,... →
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April 2012
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Apr 28th
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Open-data project aims to ease the way for genomic... →
wildcat2030: Last summer, biologist Andrew Kasarskis was eager to help decipher the genetic origin of the Escherichia coli strain that infected roughly 4,000 people in Germany between May and July. But he knew it that might take days for the lawyers at his company — Pacific Biosciences of Menlo Park, California — to parse the agreements governing how his team could use data collected on the...
Apr 28th
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Apr 24th
Apr 24th
“Female sexual submission has never really been shocking. Right now, we are in...”
– Chains of oppression: Katie Roiphe, Lena Dunham and the sexual counter-revolution. by Laurie Penny, Penny Red blog http://pennyred.blogspot.ca/2012/04/chains-of-oppression-katie-roiphe-lena.html
Apr 23rd
“The film begins by pitting two tribes of “organisms” against each other: the...”
– Fantastic Planet | Senses of Cinema
Apr 18th
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Apr 9th
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Apr 5th
“Social media and other digital platforms have enabled the world’s...”
– Designing Collaboration: New Platform Helps Global Problem-Solvers Share Stories - Design - GOOD
Apr 5th
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Apr 5th
“Zine El Abidine Ben Ali ruled Tunisia for 20 years, Hosni Mubarak reigned in...”
– Social Media and Political Change: Capacity, Constraint, and Consequence - Howard - 2012 - Journal of Communication - Wiley Online Library FREE ACCESS!
Apr 5th
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ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE: OOO Class 1 (Embedded... →
Here is the class outline: http://ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.ca/2012/03/ooo-grad-class-schedule-starts-next.html and the class reading list: Reading:  Ian Bogost, Alien Phenomenology (U of Minnesota Press, 2012)  Levi Bryant, Graham Harman and Nick Srnicek, eds., The Speculative Turn (2011; available as a free pdf download from re.press).  Levi Bryant, The Democracy of Objects (Open...
Apr 3rd
“as I mentioned, I take an ecological approach to all things philosophical. This...”
– Panpsychism and Eliminativism | Knowledge Ecology
Apr 3rd
Learn Web Design, Web Development, and iOS... →
Amazing!
Apr 2nd
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Type Connection →
If typefaces dated, this is the site.
Apr 2nd
“Why is it that, even when we are exposed to shocking stories and images, nothing...”
– Regarding The Pain Of The Planet: A Reader Reading resources to help you answer the question.
Apr 2nd
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“Germany’s change of course is another example of transferring risk, but not...”
– Oil-Powered Thinking Always the same colonializing pattern: Developed countries harvest the material wealth of poor countries - conveniently thought of as “terra nullius” - while offloading the harmful effects on them. F*ckthat!
Apr 2nd
Apr 2nd
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“I come back from Dubai with my mind a little more fucked and my heart a little...”
– Walk This Way - Carlos Celdran
Apr 2nd
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March 2012
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Mar 31st
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“Climate change looms as the epitome of an intergenerational Ponzi scheme: for a...”
– » The Intergenerational Ponzi Scheme Alex Steffen
Mar 30th
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Marshall McLuhan 1977 (by bob stein) “Another strange effect of this electric environment is the total absence of secrecy”
Mar 30th
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“Ontology is the philosophical study of existence. Object-oriented ontology...”
– Ian Bogost - What is Object-Oriented Ontology?
Mar 29th
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Mar 29th
TEDxFruitvale » Webcast videos →
TEDxFruitvale will bring together farmworkers, farmers, activists, artists, students, professors, filmmakers, and entrepreneurs to celebrate the people upon whom we depend to harvest our food. In three sessions, titled Meet, Movement, and Money, 18 speakers will provide a 360-degree view of farmworkers today and throughout history; compare labor’s progress with other social justice movements; and...
Mar 29th
“This article consists of three parts. First, I will review the major themes of...”
– Meillassoux’s Virtual Future | Harman | continent.
Mar 29th
“But with Badiou everything suddenly seemed different. Badiou dared to say Truth....”
– What Badiou Meant to Us « Larval Subjects .
Mar 29th
curiosity counts: The Mighty Mathematician You've... →
curiositycounts: Excerpt: Albert Einstein called her the most “significant” and “creative” female mathematician of all time, and others of her contemporaries were inclined to drop the modification by sex. She invented a theorem that united with magisterial concision two conceptual pillars of physics:…
Mar 29th
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Wind Map →
becoming-wave: do yourself a favour and click through. if you like maps, and pretty things, and interesting data visualizations…
Mar 29th
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51 Percent Of Total Online Traffic is Non-Human |... →
lukesimcoe: Somewhere, a speculative realist just creamed their pants.  EDITOR’S NOTE: This is actually a really cool article.
Mar 28th
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“What we’re missing now, on another level, is not just biology, but cosmology....”
– A Universe Of Self-replicating Code | Conversation | Edge (via wildcat2030)
Mar 28th
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“a complicit, ill-informed Canadian Public”
– Canada Philippines Solidarity for Human Rights
Mar 26th
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Mar 26th
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