February 2012
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“Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where...”
– Walter Benjamin, One-Way Street and Other Writings (via mythologyofblue)
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My Zombie, Myself: Why Modern Life Feels Rather... →
tetw:
By Chuck Klosterman
This is our collective fear projection: that we will be consumed. Zombies are like the Internet and the media and every conversation we don’t want to have. All of it comes at us endlessly (and thoughtlessly), and — if we surrender — we will be overtaken and absorbed. Yet this war is manageable, if not necessarily winnable. As long we keep deleting whatever’s directly...
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"The Machine Stops" by E.M. Forster →
“…a chilling, short story masterpiece about the role of technology in our lives. Written in 1909, it’s as relevant today as the day it was published.”
Came across this via William Gibson (@greatdismal). Fascinating.
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Evgeny Morozov: The Death of the Cyberflâneur →
towerofsleep:
THE other day, while I was rummaging through a stack of oldish articles on the future of the Internet, an obscure little essay from 1998 — published, of all places, on a Web site called Ceramics Today — caught my eye. Celebrating the rise of the “cyberflâneur,” it painted a bright digital future, brimming with playfulness, intrigue and serendipity, that awaited this mysterious...
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WatchA Little Bit Eternal: Rick Owens and Michele Lamy
Really dope video profile of designer Rick Owens & his equally bad ass wife Michele Lamy.
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