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Craig Gay is Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Regent College. He also serves as the editor for Crux, a quarterly journal of Christian thought and opinion published by faculty and alumni of Regent College. He is author of Dialogue, Catalogue and Monologue, Cash Values: The Value of Money the Nature of Worth, The Way of the (Modern) World, and With Liberty and Justice for Whom?. He has been published in Christian Scholar's Review, American Journal of Sociology, Crux, and Markets & Morality, and he is the co-editor (with C. Peter Molloy) of The Way of Truth in the Present Age.
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The 'economic order' today is by and large to speak of capitalism, which along with liberal democracy and modern technology has emerged as one of the central social facts of our age. The purpose of this lecture series is to think through some of the issues - both public and private - that have surfaced with respect to the contemporary 'economic order.' Lectures include:
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- A Brief History of Economic Analysis - Paul Oslington
- The Origins of Economic Revolution
- Pyramids of Sacrifice
- Propositions on Prosperity, Equality, and Liberty
- The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
- The Promise and Peril of Economic Globalization
- A Biblical Theology of Economic Life
- Traditional Christian Wisdom Pertaining to Economic Life
- Several Theological Assessments of Capitalism
- Unintended Consequences of Capitalism
- Toward a Theology of Shrewd Stewardship
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A brief note over here to prove I'm alive.
Had some health problems recently but nothing major. The last few months in between waking up, commuting, working, commuting and sleeping, I've been toying with another visual essay that will be in a similar style to Colonising the Clouds.
It's called 'Seeing Through The Debris' and will be on The Breakaway Civilisation, Conspiracies and how to parse them. I posted some WIP on tumblr at the weekend. Teh full thing should be out fairly soon. But in the mean time an except is embedded below:
P.S I might start blogging a bit more in short bursts here. No one reads blogs anymore anyway.
PHEW. So for the second time in 2 years I just submitted my extract/talk proposal to the theorizingtheweb conference that takes place in April in New York . The Abstract is reproduced in full below. Even if I am unsuccessful, the same as I said 2 years ago I think the piece is a useful early 2016 'flag in the ground' to orient my self around this year. This is the direction a lot of my thinking and speaking will headed this year. If you have any comments or the subject interests you please do get in touch on twitter, leave a comment on here, or mail me via the contact form on my homepage:
It really should be seen as a continuation from my previous talk at #TTW14 and a continuation of my thinking on/in this space – I'm quite open about it building on my previous talk in my abstract. The title alone should be a hint LOL.
In my previous TTW presentation I explored the notion of 'Infrastructure Territory' and the way institutions, corporations and nationstates approach digital dualism. I ended by pointing to the emerging condition of a new geopolitics that can only exist by presupposing a digital dualism where geopolitical actor's territory can exist in informational space. One which ignores the reality of discrete and distinct sheds of computers distributed across multiple global jurisdictions in physical space, owned by entities incorporated under existing national law:
"The geopolitics of the Cloud, as an example, it is partially defined by the 'accidental' de-lamination of traditional Westphalian geographies of sovereignty through the realization of other topologies" – Benjamin Bratton UCSD
This talk will build on my former argument and recap with sightings of this delamination in progress: the 'Ghost in a Shell Corporation' how "Uber filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit…claiming it exists only in cyberspace", how ISIS's approach to sovereignty and geographic borders mirrors the concept of super jurisdiction, Facebook's neo-colonial efforts to roll out internet.org, Estonia's e-residency program. These new networks of trust are causing friction between existing geographies of sovereignty at the geospatial level and potentially giving rise to the notion of a 'Citizen User' at the individual level.
In the time provided I will attempt to take the audience through a fast paced argument that reframes the 'Algorithmic Society' – the dominant 'modus ponens' in recent artistic and academic discourse – towards the idea of a 'Database Society' and the very broken reality of database bureaucracy and information brokerage in complex institutions.
In order to explore the condition of user-citizenship we will need to examine how institutions 'see' with a brief overview of the different types of institutional identity: EG: Physical body, Bureaucratic Record, Sets of attributes or score, Identity is a username/password or proof of memory, and Potential identities.
A commonality between Stacks and States (or any complex institution) not mentioned previously in pt1 is the idea of 'value' or 'productivity metrics. The connection between citizen, user and value are closely related. Resulting in the idea of a 'productivity potential' : At the Nation State level it manifests as GDP or GDP Per capita. In the organisation as key performance indicators (KPI's) and are hangovers of 20th century scientific management.
This kind of identity assignment comes from very early nation state concepts of the surname as well as 19C ideas of productivity and scientific land management. The famous failures of Prussian forestry are very real. We should consider a way of updating this story and read the impact of German Forestry as a shift to the rack-mounted landscape. In this database society we should place ourselves in the midst of this slow motion forest die off. Increasingly citizens, employees and users don't want to behave in ways that companies vision of them requires – these motivations, behaviors and desires are illegible to an institution. I will also be talking about Ents…
Anyway, thats it. If i'm unsuccessful then thats totally ok, I'm going to be be writing on this at some point anyway, and as a bonus means i have a talk in my back pocket which is useful. If you want me to talk about this at a thing you're doing let me know.
It's been nearly a year since i posted here and the funny thing is the last post #017 was literally being a round up for 2014.
I haven't ever been one for blogging because in part my dyslexia but also my general hatred of writing. I started this blog years ago with the intention of writing once a week. That lasted about 3 weeks… and then it turned into a place to dump the occasional post of things i've been up too. One of the main problems is that i haven't ever figured out what this space is 'for' web diary it shouldn't be.
What are Blogs for? Brings me onto a major current of discussion that has been running in back channels and freely over beers this year. That discussion of the state of social media and, feelings towards it and how does one engage with it.
In 2015: Some friends have gone 'write only', others read only, Some have repurposed seizable personal accounts towards publishing ventures and others have gone full sekret account and time warped back to 2008 twitter. I've been toying with the idea of moving over to tumblr and publishing everything out to twitter 'write only' style too but i'm still not sure.
Warren Ellis posted 'Throwing Yourself Down A Memory Hole' over at morning.computer in early December:
I'm tempted to delete every tweet I've ever posted. Leaving the account live, but scrubbing it of life. On the one hand, that is doing violence to the public record. But that is egotistical. I remember stories of people executing "mass scribbles" on the Well, back in prehistoric times, and people apparently being terribly upset about it. But the net was very small back then. On the other hand, you see — who's going to care? When I got on the web, there were still jokes about being able to read to the end of it. Now it's massive and loud and sprawling and the absence of any one person's social media posts is less than meaningless to the public record. There are already people who use services to delete their own tweets after a week. Self-destructing conversational atoms. Treating the whole thing with the ephemerality it probably deserves.
We all had a lot to say about the idea of a global conversation, but it turned out that most of us were at the back, muttering to ourselves, or, on occasion, finding ourselves talking to a chair.
Today I remain undecided. How about you?
Ahmet A. Sabancı (@ahmetasabanci) followed up with a thoughtful response
RE: THROWING YOURSELF DOWN A MEMORY HOLE by @warrenellis
I was trying to find a way to build myself a "calmer internet" for some time, because of the very similar reasons. Most of the things we call internet today is a total mess and they're doing everything possible to turn these into something more useless. While we need more stuff to curate the information flowing, we get more stuff makes all these more impossible to control. Because, let's make it clear, advertisers wants it that way.
What should we do now? When I've started using internet, what I fall in love with it was conversation and the limitless information I can consume whenever I want, however I want. But we somehow let this controlled by Google, Facebook, Twitter and others. While they did a lot good at first, they're now letting the control to the advertisers and governments. And that's why I can't leave my blog and other sites I've build. I prefer having this conversation from blog to blog and at the comments instead of Twitter. I know that it won't reach a lot of people but same goes for tweets and Facebook posts too. And I prefer writing a blog post instead of 20-of-234 style Twitter rants.
Others this year have written or spoke on podcasts about using social media more ephemerally, (you should all listen to http://mindfulcyborgs.com/ if you arn't already) and i'm inclined to agree.
Gordon (runesoup.com) also wrote this month:
In the between space of what blogs were and what they are becoming -in person discussion, comments, social posts, actual blog posts and lived personal experience
All this combined makes me think that 2016 should be devoted to more in person conversations, more dinners, attending more meetups & days spent talking and hanging out with friends in person. As for my own approach to social media that is TBD, maybe i'll just try and blog more, tweet less and generally spend less time there.
I met with Ben in early Dec on a Sunday for brunch. The day generated 8-10 pages of notes, we drank beers and i paid well over the odds for Egg and Soldiers. However it was one my favourite days in the latter half of this year. Other memorable things that have happened this winter have included: A burger disaster in a hawaiian restaurant with Jay Owens, and having lunch with communist friends in between discussing the state of the Mainstream media's coverage of the Corbyn leadership and screwing around an Occulus.
With that in mind looking back on the last 12 or so months it has been a less eventual in terms of 'Stuff' and more eventual in terms of 'life'. So instead of posting general links to things i've written or content i've produced this year i thought i might write some brief notes month by month that stick out in my memory for 2015. This list is an non exhaustive list obviously [EDIT: Looks like a lot of the things i mentioned are IRL interactions so 2016 might just be the year of 'experience']
Talk on Egregore's, consciousness, and 'corporations as people' at a birthday unconference and either alienated or angered the entire audience which was pretty awesome. Went to the Whitechapel bell foundry with my friend Arthur.
Transmediale was fun if exhausting, i ran a workshop with Tobias Revell and Erica Scourti on the subject of 'Mobilizing Infrastucure Space' – the notes from the workshop can be found towards the end of this archived hack pad here. Missed Eve's birthday.
Zed Books 'The Coming Insurrection in Publishing: self-management, digital networks and social change'. It was a good event and i enjoyed the conversations afterward.
Marrakech festival of magic with Eve, cold and rain, week long project management accelerator – refreshing to attend a thing on project management and gantt charts weren't mentioned once.
Friends Birthdays and Friends Weddings, Spring days and walks along the Thames. Events felt like a struggle to attend but i'm glad i did once i got there, the company of good friends.
Recruiter contacted me about a seeing a man about a dog. Played a SHIT LOAD of Wasteland 2, Drinks in the sun by the river.
More birthdays, A boozy night out in soho with mailing list co-conspirators meeting irl for the first time. Jack Parsons day, and the INFRA_SPECTION residency cycle at the white building coming to an end. Ending with the great 'INFRA_SPECTION – A [ Mini ] Summit', more phone calls and interviews about that dog, Freud's house adventure with Eve.
Jupiter return ended, my 30th birthday, Accepted a job offer, drinking with magicians. I remember the sun setting over london from the garden on the roof of the Google / King Studios St Giles building. All change pls.
Unemployment, adventures in Oxford with Eve, stayed in a prison, daily pub garden 'meetings' with other interstitially employed friends, folk festival ciders with old friends and Eve.
Long Progress bar in Brighton . Boozy evenings with musicians & internet folk, Crashing on Voss/Goatleys couch. A long day with Diakron, New job began with a bonus embarrassing interview.
Byzantine mosaics in Venice with Eve and her Fam, more birthdays, Q4 kick off, hard work.
More hard work, went full wyrdo, comics signings, weird day at the dentist, more birthdays, noro virus courtesy of Eve, autumn fog on the Thames path.
Social calendar apocalypse, office parties, friends from out of town, finished all the hard work, realised i need to learn the basics of accounting, introspection and reflection
This year has also been the year of newsletters, in the spirit of this post you can probably tell i have enjoyed the return to the long form, it's a more personal form of communication from friends and acquaintances and internet strangers. The list below is stolen from Damien Williams' (@wolven) Technoccult's round up that i have added to, to make up my current subscription list:
And a few others I have either forgotten or aren't for the public web.
You got a newsletter? Let me know
New Beginnings 2016
So 2016 looks like a year spent finishing up all the things i didn't do in 2015. That's ok, it makes it all the more achievable…..
Last summer i posted a visual essay on Medium of Slides and Notes from a presentation given at Theorising the Web #TTW14 NYC April 2014 with updated/expanded comments. I really like the possibility that beautiful html storytelling can/could afford – A few people however have said that they couldn't get on with all the 'scrolley' but ah well. Maybe i'll sort it out and post it to tumblr or something.
The piece was later put on a reading list for a university of new south wales MA course (which was something i never thought would happen) and i have subsequently had the opportunity to read quite a few thoughtful and critical response to it.
You can read the abstract/submission for this talk previously posted on this blog here. I have also embedded a video of the full panel and the Q&A from #TTW14 at the bottom of the medium post if you prefer.
In october i was part of a salon during frieze week at the Goethe-Institute presented in conjunction with the whitebuilding called (DIS)ASSEMBLING #STACKTIVISM – A SALON alongside: Kari Altmann (Artist in Residence at The White Building), Paul Raven (University of Sheffield), Julieta Aranda (E-Flux)
There was a reading list issued beforehand. So the discussion was quite sprawling and far reaching. I had a great time.
Video of the evening below (sorry cant figure out how to center it)
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TTM #11 happened in mid-september after a long hiatus do to all four of us being super busy. We have big plans for 2015 though.
:: Other Stuff ::
Other news for 2014 i was made a fellow at the RSA in 2014 and also a researcher on 'corporate meta-intelligences' at the institute-of-atemporal-studies which was nice
I moved house
Started a DIY record + publishing label with some punks from margate
Started a slow burn audio project that i hope to come to fruition soon in 2015
Started a new job
:: Whats next? ::
Need to hit 10000 words of a writing project I've been asked to work on by end of april. If un successful expect it to be strip mined for essays here and there
Berlin later this month (jan 15) for transmediale.de to run a workshop on Mobilising Infrastructure Space
Beyond that: i'm hoping to make it to Manchester for @futureeverything – specifically the haunted machines conference (details TBA)
Have a half written piece based on a talk i gave in 2014 about compression, the loudness war & instagram filters
Photo Courtesy of Kieran McCann
From 21 Feb – 27 Apr 2014 the Light House Gallery in Glasgow had an exhibition of current politically engaged graphic design and politics. The #Stacktivism logo was included which was nice of them – the logo was a collaboration between myself and my friend Andrew Brown
"With new ways of being political along with new media and modes of production at their disposal, contemporary designers navigate a space of increasing social unrest which has seen the eruption of civil insurrection in the UK, the revolutionary fervour of the Arab Spring and the furore following the Wikileaks revelations. The exhibition will examine the resurgence of political practice among designers since the mid 2000s and will consider their motifs and motivations, exploring the potential problems and possibilities of this diverse set of experiments."
The noted internet utopian and my friend Micheal Oswell (Graphic Designer) gave a talk on the opening night. I thought it was good : You can watch it here :: http://new.livestream.com/accounts/7238669/events/2778543/videos/42918142
Read a review of the exhibition by Grafik.
Hexayurt & SCIM creator Vinay Gupta just released a card game called Nuclear Poker in collaboration with Ian Willey. This edition is limited via game crafter as it was a fund-raising effort to build a mini quad dome for this years EMF camp.
"Nuclear Poker is a fun game about the end of the world. Don't worry, it usually happens only every three or four hands. The rules are a bit easier than Gin Rummy. A hand takes about ten minutes, sometimes less."
The SCIM graphics (that were also designed in collaboration with Andrew Brown) Were included in the fancy Defcon3 edition of the game: (its in the middle at the bottom of the spread)
You can buy it here
I completely forgot to blog about this when it went up:
I wrote a piece last year for the 5 Viridian Years collection curated by Tim Maly over on Medium. 'Viridian Design was an avant-garde bright green design movement engineered by Bruce Sterling and intended to address climate change. It ran from 1998-2008. Five years later, we reflect'
The piece was called the 'The Coming Asperity'. Asperity is something I've been thinking about for a while and it was great to finally write down/out. A definition is below:
1. A policy of cutting resource use and consumption via a reduction in carbon dioxide (or equivalent emissions) and resources that are available/provided to a population. Asperity policies are often used by governments to try to reduce the emissions of a defined population, system or activity.
In the piece i put forward #asperity as a possible political reaction to climate change, similar to the way austerity was deployed by governments after the financial crisis.
Dougald Hine was kind enough to mention the concept in his talk 'Making Ourselves Scarce' at FSCONS 13 he also referenced Charlie Stross and Kevin Carson in the same breath – so I feel the idea is in good company.
You can read the whole piece at https://medium.com/5-viridian-years/5bf9407bd010
PHEW. yesterday i finally submitted my extract/talk proposal on the 'geopolitics of the stacks' for the theorizingtheweb conference that takes place in april in new york . the piece is reproduced in full below. even if i am unsuccessful, i think the piece is a useful early 2014 'flag in the ground' to orient my self around this year. as this is the direction a lot of my thinking and speaking will headed this year.
please note: im not an academic! but if you have any comments or the subject interests you please do get in touch on twitter , leave a comment on here, or mail me via the contact form on my homepage:
Colonising the Clouds.
Infrastructure Territory and The Geopolitics of The Stacks
This paper will explore the implications of multinational technology corporations morphing into the entities that Bruce Sterling has named 'The Stacks' – companies that are setting out to build vertically integrated feudalisms. Building on and synthesising the work of Benjamin Bratton (UCSD), Tobias Revell (RCA/ARUP/SuperFlux), Paul Graham Raven (University of Sheffield), and Vinay Gupta (UCL ISRS) this paper will seek to explore ideas of infrastructure, corporations and nation states, territory, and the importance of societal understanding of the interrelations of all three.
It is a strange future-present we live in: corporations are people; Dogecoin exists; Google – a corporation whose mission statement to 'organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful' – recently acquired eight robotics companies and a thermostat manufacturer; and 'The Stacks' are emerging as digitally-dualistic geopolitical entities.
'Institutional Memory' is the method by which information is inherited and pass on between states, corporations and collective groups of people. Using this notion we can begin to unpack and explore the beliefs, biases, and assumptions of corporations and states towards concepts such as hierarchy, law, and – most importantly in our case – ontologies of the internet.
The concept of a separate, distinct 'cyberspace', the subtle shifting of corporate discourse from 'The Cloud' to 'A Cloud', and the boastful claims of the Information Security industry all point towards the web as being understood along dualist lines by the Stacks. This stands in contrast to non digital-dualist views held by government cyber commands which sees 'cyber' as a theater not a territory, demonstrated in their understandings of servers on sovereign territory and the legality of cyber-espionage.
The Stacks require deep strata of data to do their business, and in order to get that data the userbase must be made legible. Following James Scott's "Seeing Like A State", this talk will argue for the need to "see like a stack" in order for us to better understand the approaches of these entities towards data collection, knowledge creation, and territorial definition.
The conceptual shift upwards from owning and controlling spatial territory to owning and controlling 'informational territory' is not new. It began with closing of the US frontier in 1893 & introduction of the telegraph interoperability bill a few years after. Today however, as these infrastructural territories are created and claimed, their owners and creators are influencing our political and economic systems at every level, from the geopolitical to the micropolitical, resulting in what Bratton calls "the 'accidental' de-lamination of traditional Westphalian geographies of sovereignty through the realization of other topologies"
This talk will pose the questions: Where are the nexuses of political contestation in this new landscape? Has the discourse of digital dualism been overly focussed on the individual, or is it that only now are the implications of dualism at the geopolitical level being recognised? What are the implications for politics, as nation states evaporate into the clouds, and the Stacks continue to build their own private infrastructures and extend sensing/robotic platforms into the physical world?
#TTW14 is a conference run by the crew over on cyborgology blog at society pages. i think the work they are doing is exciting and extremely important in the current moment, and the conference is always great. I have watched it on live stream for the last few years, and have compiled an image of all the tweeted pictures of the keynote for the last two:
Tagged: Benjamin Bratton, bratton, bruce stirling, corporations, geopolitics, gupta, nation states, paul graham raven, scim, stacks, stacktivism, talk, tobias revell, ttw14
the main news is probably that grew a beard, went to florence, shaved it off again.
in addition i've done a whole bunch of talks and workshops, this is my talk on 'seeing the stack' at the #stacktivism unconference in july.
i also spoke more generally about infrastructure, SCIM and other stuff at the CRESC Annual Conference 2013 in September at ULU. which was in the morning on the SAME DAY as i had tickets to improving reality in brighton. was all busy missions that day
plus all the audio recordings from the #iliw13 event have started to go online. the full audio from the 'new luddism' panel is was on is now online :: here
thoughtmenu the nomadic DIY talk & event collective i helped found last year turned 1 in august. its been a bit different this year as it has has been a year of partnerships.
in april we partnered with the wonderful makerhood,com and put on a thought menu at their making uncovered event. below is a fantastic short documentary that gives a awesome sense of the day
since june and we have been working alongside limewharf to help curate the season of 'Big Picture Days'. we have two more sessions left – oct & november and I'm excited for both of them.
topic so far have been Swam Coops, Stacktivism, Cyberinsecurity. Topics still to come are 'Rights' & 'Neo-nomads'
we have a new website based on tumblr, to celebrate we been posting the videos from previous talks. As a result I've learnt quite a bit about Imovie this year – I planning on doing introduction layers with the speaker and talk names on newer videos soon i reckon. heres the newsletter ::
as i write this my room full of semi-packed in boxes. i'm moving soon and will potentially be broke after bills + rent whilst in the new place. as a result, i have some new projects brewing, one of which (hopefully) will come to fruition before the year is out. i just bought a blue yeti microphone i'm now all 'wired for sound' so its most definitely going to be audio.
:: we cannot have a conversation about something whilst it remains unseen ::
'The stack' – The chain of interconnected activities and technologies of current and historical significance that spread far beyond the individual.
I think there are many people beginning to have/shape a conversation around the stack: From Jo Guldi the author of Roads to Power: Britain Invents the Infrastructure State , Timo Arnall in his No to NoUI piece, Benjamin Bratton and his geopolitics of the cloud and theoretical languge of 'the stack', artist/Critical Engineer Julian Oliver (Eyeo2012 talk is very good) & course my good friend Vinay Gupta.
> who owns the means of not dying?
> who controls the stack?
> is infrastructure neutral?
> what are the dilemmas of radical texts on Amazon in relation to capitalist realism while sat under a Tumblr image hosted on Amazon ?
On Sunday I gave a talk at 'Immaterial Labour Isn't Working: Digital Culture, Digital Work, Digital Insurrection' hosted by Autoitaliasoutheast – the panel session was on New Luddism.
I used my time to introduce the concept of #stacktivism a term that i think allows us to form & give shape to the conversation around infrastructure & our relationship we have to it. I do not seek to define it, merely give shape to an idea.
The concept is early days & in its infancy: I hope my talk embedded below is a useful primer/introduction to this enquiry.
Join in the conversation here :: Stacktivism.com
( stacktivism.tumblr.com + @stacktivism )
Sunday 21st – New Luddism :: Immaterial Labour Isn't Working: Digital Culture, Digital Work, Digital Insurrection.
Immaterial Labour Isn't Working is a series of talks, workshops, texts and online contributions from key voices – artists, activists, technologists and writers – examining how digital technology is changing our political selves.
i will be speaking on the first sunday evening of the #ILIW13 event at a talk on 'New Luddism'.
The details of the talk can be found below ::
Who benefits from and is in charge of new technology? What could a life with less rather than more technological innovation be like?
Taking ideas of traditional Luddism as a point for departure, Dougald Hine, Dave King (Luddites200) and Jay Springett will join Huw Lemmey to discuss the possibilities for engaging with new technologies and what our relationships to these technologies have become now that it is increasingly difficult to truly "switch off".
Dougald Hine is a writer and social thinker who has been responsible for creating a series of organisations, including the School of Everything, the civic ideas agency Spacemakers, and the Dark Mountain Project, a cultural forum for investigating the converging crises of climate change, resource scarcity and economic instability.
Luddites200 is an ad hoc group of admirers of the Luddites, radical historians and activists on issues connected to technology. The group is developing a neo-Luddite politics of technology for the 21st century. Dave King is a former scientist who has been writing and campaigning on the politics of genetics and reproductive technologies since 1990.
Jay Springett – Jay Springett is a Musician, Photographer, Philosopher, and Luddite. He is concerned primarily with humans, technology, infrastructure, and the unseen intersection points of how these things keep us alive. He specializes in small one-man projects that other people can get involved with. Jay is a member of EdgeRyders (a distributed thinktank incubated by the Council of Europe), co-designer of the visual language of SCIM (Simple Critical Infrastrcuture Maps) –resiliencemaps.org and is a contributer to the Hexayurt Project an open hardware disaster relief shelter. He also co-curates The Thought Menu: a nomadic talks series, and is passionate about DIY culture.
Huw Lemmey is an artist and writer whose work focuses on digital political culture and post-internet art. He is involved in running the Limazulu project space and has co-ordinated the Immaterial Labour Isn't Working project with Auto Italia.
@dougald / @luddites200 / @thejaymo / @spitzenprodukte
You can get tickets from the eventbrite page here
Saturday 20th – The Thought Menu #5 :: On Making
Yup, we are doing another thought menu!
We have partnered with the great Makerhood.com for Thought Menu #5 and will be putting on an hour of classic thought menu at their event Making Uncovered.
Making Uncovered is an exciting festival of making, art and craft. It's free to attend, and everyone is welcome – drop in at any time. We have a great collection of speakers for the evening, and really hope you can make it down!
speakers include :: Kelly Angood , Anish Mohammed, Raphael Hefti & Tom Grimsey
Full details can be found at the Making Uncovered site here or you can sign up to the Thought Menu News Letter for details about the event and get info on future events.
You can book your free ticket here.
Exciting times!
…Even this notion of "open" history, however, is inadequate. What is unthinkable within this horizon of linear historical evolution is the notion of a choice or act which retroactively opens up its own possibility: the idea that the emergence of the radically New retroactively changes the past–not the actual past of course (we are not in science fction), but past possibilities (or, to put it in more formal terms, the value of modal propositions about the past). I have referred elsewhere to Jean-Pierre Dupuy's claim that, if we are to confront adequately the threat of (social or environmental) catastrophe, we need to break out of this "historical" notion of temporaity: we have to introduce a new notion of time. Dupuy calls this time the "time of a project," of a closed circuit between the past and the future: the future is causaly produced by our acts in the past, while the way we act is determined by our anticipation of the future and our reaction to this anticipation:
The catastrophic event is inscribed into the future as destiny, for sure, but also as a contingent accident: it could not have taken place, even if, in futur antérieur, it appears as necessary…if an outstanding event takes place, a catastrophe, for example, it could not not have taken place; nonetheless, insofar as it didn't take place, it is not inevitable. It is thus the event's actualization - the fact that it takes place which retroactively creates its necessity…
– Slavoj Žižek (quoting Jean-Pierre Dupuy) in "First as Tragedy, Then as Farce"
But LinkNYC marks a radical step even for Google. It is an effort to establish a permanent presence across our city, block by block, and to extend its online model to the physical landscape we humans occupy on a daily basis. The company then intends to clone that system and start selling it around the world, government by government, to as many as will buy. And every place that signs on will become another profit center in Google's advertising business, even as it extends its near-monopoly on information about our online behavior to include our behavior in physical space as well.
"It's a real-time, personalized propaganda engine," Douglas Rushkoff, a New York–based media theorist and author of the bestselling Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, told the Voice, "a multibillion-dollar manipulation apparatus, customized not to meet our consumer desires, but to overcome our psychic defense mechanisms. And now you want to unleash that on the entire city of New York as a public service? I'm sorry, that's a deal with the devil we really don't need."
Read more :: Google Is Transforming NYC's Payphones Into a 'Personalized Propaganda Engine'
Who owns the stack? /// JAY
"Welcome to the age of metanationals"
Interesting seeing that term in FP Mag. I gave a talk in Jan 2015 shortly before transmediale kinda on this called 'Towards a new corporate taxonomy -> multinational, transnational, metanational, stack' Unfortunatly it wasnt recorded // Jay
Been working on thing about conspiracy theories, drawing reality maps, the on-boarding of technologies, Foucault and how (capital P) Power changes dominant historical narrative(s) when required to support its own needs, and so on and so forth.
An excerpt:
So imagine then being Joe Schmo on main street in 1964. Sitting outside a drug store (not a Costa), the fake wooden filmset streetscape still remains the same. It's a time before 'real' commercial airline travel - the first flight of the 747 is still 5 years away. The closest thing Joe has to the idea of air travel is a 1st gen airliner like a De Havilland Comet and then only because he heard about it on the radio (My Grandpa worked by the way, on the De Havilland Comets decompression investigation), and Black and White TV's are still sold more than colour.
Meanwhile, you say: "Classified technology is flying a Mach 3 stealth plane to edge of space." Do you think you could tell O'l Joe without his hackles being raised, do you think he'd believe you? - I'm not sure Mr Schmo would accept it at all.
Nevertheless in the 90's the project was declassified and everything we know about the Blackbird's capabilities where 'Onboarded' back into the official history of the 20th Century.
It's strange that whilst something is actually happening but hidden beyond the borders of the official narrative - it's unbelievable - but after the fact it's just history. When discussing or considering any conspiratorial subjects i always approach them with this framework and like to call this 'The Blackbird analogy'.
- Seeing Through The Debris (excerpt)
See https://solari.com/blog/ for the Red Button
See @crossquadrantbulletin for The Quadrant Model
The Quadrant Model won't be included in that piece but I hear on the back channel that the CQWG might have something cooking it will be included in.
Thanks to @shitsjefsaw over on http://www.sjef.nu/ for his own Diagram Mashing for inspiration:
Theory of Change and the Futures Cone.
Theory of Change and The Golden Circle.
Also thanks to @m1k3y & Gordon @ runesoup.com
Bladeless wind turbines generate electricity by shaking, not spinning
Scientists hope to hugely reduce the cost of wind energy by removing the blades from wind farms, instead taking advantage of a special phenomenon to cause the turbines to violently shake.
Vortex, a startup from Spain, has developed the tall sticks known as Bladeless — white poles jutting out of the ground, that are built so that they can oscillate. They do so as a result of the way that the wind is whipped up around them, using a phenomenon that architects avoid happening to buildings and encouraging it so that the sticks shake.
They do so using vortices, which is where the company gets its name from. The bladeless turbines use special magnets to ensure that the turbines are optimised to shake the most they can, whatever speed the wind is travelling at.
As the sticks vibrate, that movement is converted into electricity by an alternator.
Wiggling Poles of the Wasteland Harvest Electricity For Power Hungry Humans
These also look like they would cause fewer problems for birds and bats.
This is really cool.
They leave off the important note that when the wind rises, each pole makes a sound like a hundred vuvuzelas roaring at once. In the post-apocalyptic world of the future, villagers will speak in hushed tones about the Roaring Plains, and caution adventurous travelers to stay well away.
I appreciate how they essentially invented very useful yet alien-looking screaming pillars. Science continues to make some suspiciously sci-fi shit.
At least you won't have to go outside to know how windy it is… You'll hear it.
They provide us energy
They provide us warmth
They love us
These martyr gods, their twitching agony is our salvation
Glad to hear Night Vale is a sustainable city
Screaming trees
When I see folks didn't like Deadpool, I'm like whatever. People like different things. I don't even like Deadpool as a character but the movie was dope. Anyway, if you didn't like it because it was short or it felt cheap and underdeveloped, that's because it was. It was kinda set up to fail.
They were given the greenlight the way an impatient parent says 'fine you can have a dog but if it pisses on the rug, I'm gonna shoot it.' They had less than a year to complete the movie and were given a budget of 58 million when the average superhero movie budget is between $150-250 million. AND Fox had the nerve to take money out of the budget so they had to write around the money. So Deadpool only having a few bullets? Budget. Forgetting his guns in the car so he can't use them in the final fight? Budget. Only 2 low profile X-men around, one of which had never been seen before? Budget.
And they still managed to make crazy amounts of money and break all kinds of records. I just feel like it's worth knowing whether you like it or not because I ended up liking the movie a lot more after knowing what they were working against. Deadpool is like the indie movie of this superhero shit
Hey guys look at this damn film nerd
Look at this film nerd pointing out this massive SUCCESS STORY.
Bonus points for Deadpool making massive amounts of money despite being released in a fucking DEADZONE and being rated R.
An R rating automatically limits the audience, so it was basically kneecapped from the get-go because fewer people would even be able to see it. Releasing the movie in fucking February was a damn near deliberate attempt on its life. February is where movies go to die, ok, even the cheesy date movies don't always make it out alive.
They didn't want this movie made in the first place, greenlit it to stop the nagging, gave it a ridiculously tiny budget and then CUT IT DOWN EVEN MORE later on forcing several very hurried bits of rewriting (this is where a few extra digs at the studio were added, because they fucking deserved it), tried to argue against an R rating and when that failed, they tried to kill it by dumping it in the fucking release date graveyard.
And it still made ridiculous amounts of money.
That's like winning the Kentucky Derby on a 3-legged donkey; "Massive success" is a bit of an understatement.
Two disabled friends build a forest around their village
In a thousand years there will be fables about these two
In much the same way that nearly one in two Americans believe that the world was created less than ten thousand years ago by an angry cloud man, while tweeting about these same beliefs on a slave-built device connected to hundreds of satellites orbiting the earth, it is a grievous interpretive error to assume technological change impacts belief systems at the same rate.
Star.Ships by Gordon White.
Now out in a paperback Bibliotheque Rouge edition.
A defining text of the new magical renaissance, Star.Ships addresses the question of who we are now by tracing where we come from, and by drawing out the stories and the spirits that have journeyed and evolved with us. The goal is, as Gordon writes, the restoration of context.
To this end, White applies his globally-recognised data and demographics skills to realise a groundbreaking work of truly interdisciplinary research. Utilising mythological, linguistic and astronomical data to reconstruct palaeolithic magical beliefs, he maps them to the human journey out of Africa; explores which aspects of these beliefs and practices have survived into the Western tradition; and what the implications (and applications) of those survivals may be for us.
Written for a magically literate and operative audience, Star.Ships displays the flair, wit and engagement with evidence that adherents of his runesoup blog have come to expect from Gordon. He deftly handles vast time scales and cosmologies to build his case; avoids the pitfalls of alternative historians with a refreshing absence of dogma or wishful thinking; and, in a masterful deployment of the latest research, simultaneously questions outworn dominant narratives and is not afraid to champion the work of independent researchers and entertain forbidden discourses. It is exactly what chaos magic should be.
Göbekli Tepe, the Pyramids and Sphinx, Nabta Playa, Gunung Padang, Easter Island and Sundaland are some of the points spangled across a work of truly cosmic scope. Star.Ships beckons those who are willing to engage in the adventure to follow the great river of history that flows into and out of an ocean of stars. Minds will be blown.
there's nothing wrong with admitting you were once toxic.
there's nothing wrong with admitting you made a couple people feel like shit.
there's nothing wrong with admitting you fucked up and were horribly arrogant and parasitic.
there's nothing wrong with admitting you did anyone wrong, especially if you've learned from it. If you're humble enough to admit it, I guarentee there's a bit of a good person inside of you.
George Bain - Methods of Construction in Celtic Art, 1996.
First flower ever grown in space bloomed today!
New in the Pioneers Press catalog!
Order here
I feel like anyone who criticizes solarpunk fiction for not having enough possibility for conflict has probably never tried to communally plan a large event, much less tried to run a city that way.
Now making that kind of conflict compelling, rather than teeth-gratingly frustrating – that's a real challenge.
Coalition-building as a heroic act, that's something to ponder.
Remember, we're not just human beings — we're apes. Why do apes do this?
A study of ritual in ten lessons.
The first thing buried in a graveyard, so the story goes, has the duty to stand watch over it for eternity and keep the bad things out. It became tradition to bury a black dog before any man or woman was laid to rest, to make sure that no human would be locked out of heaven (or, for that matter, hell) forever.
They never asked the dogs what they felt about that sort of thing, but then, they were good dogs, and were doing their duty. And would do so for eternity. The black dogs who stood watch were dubbed Grims, though as time passed, no one ever thought they'd be needed. Still, the tradition went on.
When the dead began to rise to attack the living, the Grims were standing watch. Not one walking corpse made it out of a graveyard with a Grim standing guard over it, for dogs know the secrets of burying bones so that they stay buried.
Without the reinforcements of all the dead ever buried, the others who rose that day did not overwhelm the living. And when those living went to find out why, they found the Grims, still standing watch. The survivors told them that they were good dogs, who had done their duty. And the Grims were satisfied, and taught the living the trick of making sure bones stayed buried, so no dead would walk again.
That's how the story goes, anyway.
The @internetofshit account posts sardonic observations about the Internet of Things, which is filled with the most depressing array of useless, dangerously insecure, exploitative junk imaginable.
Vice interviewed the anonymous European software developer and recovering network infrastructure administrator about their commitment to exposing and mocking the crapgadgets of tomorrow.
The author tells Man of the World magazine he's going to "geek the fuck out" and create his own fantasy series, kicking off with a book called Black Leopard, Red Wolf, which he describes as "an African Game of Thrones."
As James puts it, "I realized how sick and tired I was of arguing about whether there should be a black hobbit in Lord of the Rings. African folklore is just as rich, and just as perverse as that shit. We have witches, we have demons, we have goblins, and mad kings. We have stories of royal succession that would put Wolf Hall to shame. We beat the Tudors two times over."
But be warned, James is not using the word geek lightly; this thing is going to be seriously nerdy. "One hundred pages describing a village? Hell yeah," he promises. "A big appendix on magic techniques? Of course I'm gonna do it. Two hundred pages on a mysterious dwarf race that lives underground? Fuck yes." Get your d20 ready — this world is going to inspire one hell of a role-playing game someday.
Wow. Cool!
Y'all know no one is going to buy this, right?
Not really sure why you'd make that assumption…considering I posted this link less than 15 minutes ago and already 250 people have reblogged or liked it. Pretty sure people interested in articles about books also buy them….just saying. I'm going to buy it.
I will buy it too. So will a lot of other people I know.
But the sad truth is the fantasy genre is pretty much closed to anyone that isn't white. Yeah, once in a while, we get someone that breaks through, but it's rare. I would like that this reaches the same level as GoT or LOTR, but it probably won't. If a book isn't written by a white author or have a majority of white characters, then it doesn't sell.
But let's say this is one of the few times a book written by a Black author reaches the sane level. The very fact that it was written by a Black author makes it a "Black Book". If the majority of characters are Black, it's a "Black Book". White people don't typically read "Black Books". The publishing industry caters especially to white people. So if they don't read it, then it probably won't be a movie, it probably won't gain a large following, and it probably won't even be recognized as "good" fantasy.
Every Black nerd has read Octavia Butler, for example, and we all hail her as the queen of sci-fi. However, I have white friends that read more sci-fi than I do that have never heard of her. Because her books aren't marketed to them, the majority. Octavia Butler is an amazing sci-fi writer at the same level of Asimov or Bradbury, and yet her name isn't mentioned as often as the others when one discusses classic sci-fi. Because there aren't a majority of white characters in her books.
I'm not trying to hate on this book at all. Like I said, this is the type of thing I want to read. This is the type of story I would literally force my friends to read. It's the type of thing that I WANT to get as large as GoT or LOTR. but I know that it's unlikely. Sci-fi and fantasy are "white" genres. Even if every Black person in the world buys this book, it's a "Black Book".
What you're talking about is a big part of why I do MPoC in the first place, because of the unbearable whiteness of the SF/F genre, as well as historical fiction. It's why I do Fiction Week, which is starting again tomorrow. I'm sick and tired of being told that any people of color aren't "historically accurate" when 90% of the time, we're talking about FANTASY media, y'know, with dragons and elves and magic.
Check out this Fiction Week Masterpost from 2014, where you can see hundreds of books that have characters of color and/or are by authors of color, including many Black authors. Many of these works have also been financially successful and quite popular. I'm going to talk all about it.
The problem of books by Black authors being relegated to the "African American" section of bookstores and libraries is illuminated well here in N.K. Jemisin's "Don't Put My Book in the African American Section."
This is something that is changing. We're all watching it change right now. And we can help by adding our voices to the increasingly insistent demand for MORE DIVERSE SF/F, by BUYING THESE BOOKS and talking about them on social media, LEAVING REVIEWS on vendor's websites, and getting excited for new releases like this one!
I'm not trying to downplay the horrendous impact that racism and anti-Blackness has on what kind of fiction we know about, can enjoy with our friends, or that reach the pinnacle of commercial success or general popularity. But I personally am more optimistic than I've ever been, because whether we're talking about awards or commercial success or mainstream popularity, more and more creative people of color are breaking through with fantastic and breathtaking new visions of the world as it was and would have been (if!), the world as it should be, and the world as it CAN be.
Don't give up! There's a whole community of people who want to read, share, and talk about these wonderful books!
Also, not reading Octavia Butler doesn't mean someone hasn't read sci fi written by POC. I'm a Black women who loves sci fi. I don't love Octavia Butler's work. It depresses the shit out of me. I do love NK Jemisin, DJ Older, Nnedi Okorafor & so many others though. We all have our faves in terms of style & frankly with the advent of social media as a direct way for authors to reach fans we are seeing better sales for the folks who take these risks.
I absolutely agree!
Fiction Week is kinda my fave because being an SFF fan is how/why I got interested in history in the first place, and started digging around. It's also a way to let people know about really groundbreaking new books, stories, novellas, collections and anthologies, and give people a chance to be excited about them.
Honestly, from the description in the article above, I'm actually expecting less "Game of Thrones" than I am something more like, say, David Anthony Durham's Acacia trilogy-if we're talking about an author from historical fiction or history-style writing taking a shot at epic fantasy in the style of Very Descriptive War of Succession!
I think a lot of people are in the habit of automatically going GAME OF THRONES for anything that has a sword or a dragon in it, because the show's so popular.
Little known fact: In 1994, Mariah Carey released her album Merry Christmas, which featured the holiday classic "All I Want for Christmas Is You". This album marked a huge change in the way people celebrated Christmas. Due to the fear of communism during the Cold War, the color red had entirely been banned in the US. This directly affected Christmas. People did not celebrate the holiday in fear that they would be branded a communist and immediately arrested.
But then came Mariah. She decided the people had had enough of the oppressive US government and made an entire Christmas album in rebellion. She even went as far as to wear a daringly red Santa Claus suit on the album cover. Many lawsuits came her way and she was jailed for a brief period, but the public outcry was so large that the CIA had no option but let her go. A few days later, Congress lifted the ban on the color red and the holiday spirit was restored. Now we all celebrate Christmas freely thanks to Mariah Carey.
Are you actually stupid? You think the US Congress banned the color red?
I don't even need to cite anything for this. But how about this:
That's Nancy Reagan wearing wearing a red dress as the First Lady. We didn't even ban the Communist Manifesto and taught it on campuses across the country, and you think we banned the color red?
In short: you're making stupid shit up out of your ass.
Mariah Carey not only freed us from governmental oppression but in fact founded Christmas with Santa Claus himself in the North Pole.
But I'm real glad you took the time out of your life to photoshop that picture of our former First Lady Nancy Reagan… Just sad really…
Oh tumblr never change
Applying for jobs. (via zblaziken)
teach your kids to be conspirators at a young age
Grissom and Young
by Norman Rockwell
solarpunk is still an infant genre and i want to kill it already because i dont want solarpunk to be a story i want it to be a reality
ok but that's the point though. stories are how we build an understanding of what realities are possible and how we pursue them. solarpunk is fiction as activism: everyone here wants it to be a reality.
Totally agree. As a genre, solarpunk for me anyway is creating a future that is legible as much as it is about being a possible one.
A future that is inclusive and allows for the fulfillment of basic human needs over human wants.
Not being too hot Not being too cold Not being ill Not being injured Not being hungry Not being thirsty
Shelter Water Fire Food
The real reality of a solarpunk future could be achieved right now, no one dying of preventable illness, from hunger or exposure etc but the way in which we choose to organise the planet prevents it from happening right now.
Dystopia and collapse fiction stems from the fear that we (me) as a privileged westerner will have to live in the same conditions as those that grow my coffee.
For me, solarpunk as a form of activism, helps handhold the world using art, fiction and creativity towards a global minimum viable utopia in a world of 9 billion.
this is so epic omg
Solarpunk can see the spots where trees have broken through the asphalt for what they are: great places to grow trees.
The Future is Now (volume two) by Josan Gonzalez / DeviantArt / Behance / Facebook / Store / See volume one / Buy book
From the artist: "My first self-published artbook, a vision of a dystopian near future, includes full color illustrations and black and white sketches.
The book has 64 pages plus cover and back cover, the size is A4 landscape with perfect binding, and soft cover."
DIY space for london's opening night, thursday september 17th 2015
I am the baffled flower seller in the autumnal shirt. We built it, and now the real work begins.
The Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative at Arizona State University has announced its 2016 Climate Fiction Short Story Contest. The contest will be judged by science fiction legend Kim Stanley Robinson (!!), along with other climate fiction experts from ASU.
The grand-prize winner will be awarded $1000, with three additional finalists receiving book bundles signed by award-winning climate fiction author Paolo Bacigalupi. A collection of the best submissions will be published in a forthcoming online anthology, and considered for publication in the journal Issues in Science and Technology.
The deadline for submission is January 15, 2016. Entrants are allowed to submit up to a maximum of three stories (5,000-word max), each submitted separately with the same author information for each entry.
Ash Amin, "Lively Infrastructures" (published as an article in Theory, Culture and Society, 2014.
I had posted the talk description a while back, but finally got a chance to listen to the lecture this week. One of the signs of a good talk is when I'm frantically scribbling down the scholars referenced,
Amin talks about infrastructure (very broadly defined to include most of the built environment, esp. housing, and not only sewers, electricity, roads) via three analytical lens:
1. infrastructure as provisioning
2. infrastructure as symbolic/political, in which infrastructure functions as both material/symbolic constructions of modernity, regardless of the efficacy of the goods delivered AND sites of governmentality, social selection and discrimination.
Amin admiringly quotes Brian Larkin's phrase "pipes turn out to be documents" from Larkin's paper "The politics and poetics of infrastructure" in Annual Review of Anthropology 42 (2013): 327-343.
3. infrastructure as sensorium, immersive landscapes that shape sentiments and ethical dispositions. Here is where I got super excited and started scribbling down names - but it turns out Amin has posted the pre-publication version of the article (linked here as pdf).
Kenny, Nicolas. "From body and home to nation and world: the varying scales of transnational urbanism in Montreal and Brussels at the turn of the twentieth century." Urban History 36.02 (2009): 223-242.
Hirschkind, Charles. The ethical soundscape: Cassette sermons and Islamic counterpublics. Columbia University Press, 2006.
The case studies include the Vila Viva program (in Brazil) which replaces favelas with modern housing complexes in the name of progress. Amin talks here about the violence of the new development's aesthetic, buildings that offer no recognition of the long tradition of self-build, and deny residents the opportunity to alter the outside or inside of their dwellings (even washing lines are inpermissible).
Always Reblog Ganesh
Spot the irony! This one is especially for
Oh and look, someone digitized it and put it up online!
I wonder if this was done by the Kevin Glick from Yale? Hmmm.
All sorts of tools have been found in pre-Christian women's graves. The only major craft which seems to have been restricted to men only was Blacksmithing. […]
Here are a few examples of jobs done by women in the medieval period:
brewer, laundress, barrel and crate maker, soap boiler, candle maker, book binder, doll painter, butcher, keeper of town keys, tax collector, shepherd, musician, rope maker, banker, money lender, inn keeper, spice seller, pie seller, woad trader, wine merchant, steel merchant, copper importer, currency exchanger, pawn shop owner, lake and river fisherwoman, baker, oil presser, builder, mason, plasterer, cartwright, wood turner, clay and lime worker, glazier, ore miner, silver miner, book illuminator, scribe, teacher, office manager, clerk, court assessor, customs officer, porter, tower guard, prison caretaker, surgeon and midwife. […]
There are records of women traders in 1205 in Genoa, Italy. In fact, 21% of people involved in trade contracts there in the 13th Century were women. Women also provided 14% of capital in seafaring ventures at the time.
Even earlier, in the 12th Century, there are records of women traders in Georgia, Eastern Europe. Paris tax registers for 1292, 1300, 1313 list lots of craftswomen, many of whom were in different trades to their husbands. […]
Girls might be educated at home, with private tutor, or at a Convent. There were also schools within towns. In some cases girls were excluded from these, or only allowed to enter elementary schools. In other cases they were allowed to enter secondary schools and obtain a much broader education, including Latin and other languages. Some schools were mixed, others were single sex. Town Councils and the Church had some control over schools and over the appointment of teachers. In 1388, a Jewish woman, Sarah of Gorlitz, donated a property to be used as a school for Jewish children.
Outside of the Guilds, women might be employed as unskilled labourers in vineyards, on building sites and so on. Many more women than men were employed because they could be paid less for doing the same work.
In Wurzburg, 1428-1449, for example, there are records of 323 female building site workers, paid 7.7 pfennings a day, and 13 male building site workers, paid 11.6 pfennings a day. In general, it seems that a wide range of professions were open to medieval women, although they were also subject to a variety of restrictions.
Women artists in the medieval period
Women poets throughout history
Women writers by historical period
Women travelers / pilgrims / explorers in the medieval period - "Stronger than men and braver than knights"
If anyone's curious, uncovering the 19th and 20th century erasure of women's contributions to the creation of medieval European illuminated manuscripts is what started me down my current slippery research slope sometime in 2009-2010. There was a school in Paris with a majority of women illuminators and scribes c. 1300.
P.S. Herrad Von Landsburg is my eternal fave:
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Kartoffelchips, potato chips, ca. 70 x 500 x 250 cm
It's about time.
Wolf #1 is coming out soon – July 22, to be exact. If you're willing to go into your local comics store and pre-order a copy this week, it will be amazing for us, because every order increases the amount of copies we have to print, and that in turn increases our chances of making Wolf an epic long-form story. The pre-order code for Wolf #1 is MAY150550: tell your retailer that and it shall come to you.
Wolf is about a suicidal paranormal investigator who meets a young girl who might just be the key to the impending apocalypse. It's about vampires, werewolves, concrete, desert, blood and magic. It's also about California, Los Angeles, and the ways we choose to define ourselves. It's also, perhaps most importantly, about myths. But maybe you fancy seeing some pages?
That's our comic. I also did some interviews about it:
And podcasts as well:
And then there's a lot of praise from early readers, which appeared on twitter, so if you look at my feed and scroll just a day back, you'll see it.
I think that's about it. Oh, no, wait! One more teaser. But I'll say goodbye first – goodbye and hello.
Welcome to the world of Wolf.
Just rang my local store. Stoked for this
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2000 years later: "The strange glyphs appearing on gravestones from the early 21st century onward remain a mystery. These astoundingly complex patterns (no two exactly the same) have been found on many other 21st century artifacts, and are believed to have religious significance. Recovered images suggest they were probably sacred to the ancient North American god, Apple, and were meant to ensure that the departed would continue to be financially successful in the afterlife."
As an archaeologist I can confirm that that is pretty much exactly what will happen in the future.
We cannot know his legendary head
with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso
is still suffused with brilliance from inside,
like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low,
gleams in all its power. Otherwise
the curved breast could not dazzle you so, nor could
a smile run through the placid hips and thighs
to that dark center where procreation flared.
Otherwise this stone would seem defaced
beneath the translucent cascade of the shoulders
and would not glisten like a wild beast's fur:
would not, from all the borders of itself,
burst like a star: for here there is no place
that does not see you. You must change your life.
This could be the international flag of planet Earth
Designed by Oskar Pernefeldt, this proposal for a flag that represents our entire planet could have a future on Mars.
Centered in the flag, seven rings form a flower – a symbol of the life on Earth. The rings are linked to each other, which represents how everything on our planet, directly or indirectly, are linked. The blue field represents water which is essential for life – also as the oceans cover most of our planet's surface. The flower's outer rings form a circle which could be seen as a symbol of Earth as a planet and the blue surface could represent the universe.
Jay Springett is a Musician, Photographer & Stacktivist. He is concerned primarily with humans, technology, infrastructure, and the unseen intersection points of how these things keep us alive.
Jay is a member of EdgeRyders (a distributed thinktank incubated by the Council of Europe), he concept curates the stacktivism tumblr - A term that attempts to give form to a critical conversation & line of enquiry around infrastructure & the relationship we have to it. He is the co-designer of the visual language of SCIM (Simple Critical Infrastrcuture Maps) - resiliencemaps.org and is a contributor to the Hexayurt Project an open hardware disaster relief shelter. He also co-curates The Thought Menu: a nomadic talks series, and is passionate about DIY culture.Jay writes online under the handle thejaymo.


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This follows the history of the novel itself and Rand's earlier novel The Fountainhead, neither of which received good reviews but succeeded largely by word-of-mouth endorsements from readers.
I didn't expect much of this low-budget ($10 million), hastily produced (six weeks) effort with no-name stars, but how wrong I was. It is an extraordinary work -- unlike any movie I have seen. It is an unabashed celebration of capitalism and the spirit of the individual.
Far from the monotonous diatribe that the critics saw, I viewed a fast-paced, intellectually stimulating work with excellent professional casting. Taylor Schilling as Dagny Taggart is superb. Compressing Rand's tome to a manageable movie script while capturing the essence of her work has been magnificently accomplished.
Will it play at the box office? Week one produced per-theater revenues of $5,608, second only to Rio and ahead of Robert Redford's much promoted The Conspirator at $5,500. Will success continue? I hope so. It has my two thumbs up, and I can't wait for Part Two!
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UC Irvine Reduces Suspension But Increases Other Sanctions Against Muslim Student Union
In response to an appeal of a year-long campus suspension, the University of California, Irvine, has announced revised sanctions against the Muslim Student Union (MSU).
The suspension was cut from a year to four months. But see how the university increased other punishments against MSU after the jump . . .
UC Irvine muslims hold afternoon prayers on campus in 2007.
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The MSU's probation has been extended from one to two years, and community service hours have been doubled to 100 hours, the university also announced.
The shorter suspension still amounts to collective punishment of all members for the actions of a handful, incoming MSU vice president Hadeer Soliman said at a news conference this morning.
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The ban "sends the wrong message" at a time when hate crimes against Muslims is rising in the U.S., said Soliman, who added MSU members have endured hate mail and personal attacks.
But a university spokesman noted the suspension only prevents the group from officially using UCI facilities.
Like all other students, MSU members can individually recruit members, attend any campus function or pray wherever he or she wants, even during the suspension, according to the spokesman.
The ban, which was handed down earlier in the summer, is part of the fallout from the repeated disruption of Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren's speech on campus in February.
The MSU agrees that seven UCI students stood up and protested "inhumane Israeli policies" that "deprive Palestinians of their human rights," and that some demonstrators were MSU members and officers.
However, the union disagrees with the university that the protest amounted to a sanctioned MSU event.
After the senior executive director of Student Housing revoked MSU's charter for a year for violations of UCI policies, the union filed an appeal in June, maintaining that the student protesters were acting on their own and not at the union's behest.
"Suspending the MSU would undoubtedly create a chilling effect and deprive Muslim students--both current and incoming--of a place where they can develop a sense of community with one another and with the broader UCI campus community," incoming MSU president Asaad Traina said at the time. "Depriving Muslim students a venue to associate jeopardizes their rights under the First Amendment and is an act of marginalization at a time when Muslim students and Muslim youth already feel besieged."
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- To Autumn O Autumn. Laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof, there thou may'st rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe; And all the daughters of the year shall dance, Sing now the lusty song...
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- ABOUT YULE | RITUAL | FOODS | REFERENCES ABOUT YULE Yule, pronounced "you all", or jol is the Winter Solstice, the shortest day and the longest night of the year. Yule, in Old Norse means, Wheel. As the Wheel of the Year is significant in pagan...
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- 1799 begann Haydn, nach dem Erfolg mit dem Oratorium "Die Schöpfung", mit der Komposition seines neuen Oratoriums in vier Teilen "Die Jahreszeiten", das ihn bis 1801 beschäftigte. Das Textbuch stammte von Baron Gottfried von Swieten und ging auf ein ...
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Scotty Barnhart: Say It Plain
Barnhart spent 17 years as featured trumpet soloist with the Count Basie Orchestra and was also part of the Marcus Roberts Quintet. A graduate of Florida A&M University, he is now professor of jazz trumpet at Florida State University.
Say It Plain is an evenly divided set of originals and standards. Fellow trumpeters Clark Terry and Wynton Marsalis appear on selected tracks. The core group consists of Barnhart, Rodney Jordan on bass, Leon Anderson Jr. on drums and Todd Williams on saxophones. The rest of the ensemble features a variable lineup of pianists, including Roberts and Ellis Marsalis, guitarist Rick Lollar and a few others.
The title song is a playful piece that begins with Barnhart using a mildly muted effect. As the piece picks up, the trumpet grinds and growls through some sassy phrases. Lollar and pianist Bill Peterson follow with solos, while Anderson checks in some emphatic pings on the cymbals during the latter. In one sequence, it appears for a moment that Jordan has the solo, backed only by Peterson with Herlin Riley on tambourine, but as it picks up, Riley is leading.
"Haley's Passage," dedicated to author Alex Haley, features Barnhart on the flumpet, a hybrid of a flugelhorn and a trumpet. The melody is a harmonious duet between Barnhart and Williams, who plays soprano sax on this selection. Lollar contributes a brief solo, but it's Barnhart who carries most of the piece, with Lindsey Sarjeant taking over piano duties.
"Jnana," honoring trumpeter Dave Monette, is one of several energetic pieces. Roberts carries the piano duty. Anderson and Jordan are engaging in the background. Barnhart cranks up the juice during his lead, setting up a dazzling solo by Roberts, matched in intensity by the bass and drums. Williams contributes a tenor sax solo.
The styles of Say It Plain vary from swing to blues to Latin and even a bit of Dixieland. In addition to his original songsone co-written with TerryBarnhart delivers first-rate renditions of such classics as John Coltrane's "Giant Steps" and Dizzy Gillespie's "Con Alma." With a solid band and stellar guests, this is a debut that whets the appetite for more from Barnhart.
Track Listing: Giant Steps; Say It Plain; The Burning Sands; Haley
Personnel: Scotty Barnhart: trumpet (1-3, 5-12), flumpet (4); Clark Terry: trumpet (12), vocal (12); Wynton Marsalis: trumpet (7); Todd Williams: tenor sax, soprano sax (1, 3, 4, 8); Ellis Marsalis: piano (5, 11); Marcus Roberts: piano (1, 3, 8); Lindsey Sarjeant: piano (4); Bill Peterson: piano (2, 6, 9, 10, 12); Bruce Barth: piano (7); Rodney Jordan: bass (1-6, 8-12); Greg Williams: bass (7); Leon Anderson Jr.: drums, whistle (1); Herlin Riley: tambourine (2); Etienne Charles: percussion (7); Marion Felder: percussion (7); Rick Lollar: guitar (2, 4, 12); Jamie Davis: vocal (9).
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We show an interferometric method for measuring phase change with known uncertainty. Because this measurement uses the backreflection from a sample, the height is intrinsically removed, and only the phase change is measured. The uncertainty in the phase change measurement is and is dominated by the background subtraction method. We also investigate the effect of the phase change on the interferometric radius measurement. The theoretical worst-case error in the interferometric radius measurement due to the phase change is .
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