October 2011
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“The new radicalism is paper. Right? Publish it on a printed page and no one will...”
– Kenneth Goldsmith (via austinkleon)
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Bobulate: Counting therbligs →
bobulate:
My pencil would be dull. Dull from practicing the possibility of perfect circles. The lead would make the newsprint shiny as I traced the line over and again. Stillness at the kitchen table gave way to the lone movement of cursive practice into a dark afternoon. Worse than eating peas, and…
I want to write a language to measure and describe the unmeasurable and indescribable.
4chan's Chris Poole: Facebook & Google Are Doing... →
“The portrait of identity online is often painted in black and white,” Poole said. “Who you are online is who you are offline.” That rosy view of identity is complemented with a similarly oversimplified view of anonymity. People think of anonymity as dark and chaotic, Poole said.
But human identity doesn’t work like that online or offline. We present ourselves differently in different...
