A place to capture, store, ruminate and act on whatever happens to catch my fancy.
William James, in the chapter on “Attention” of his Principles of Psychology, is very interesting on the question of whether paying attention to something is a free act or an entirely (physiologically) determined one:
…Translating this into contemporary terms, James’ point is that one can…
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John Battelle offers a nice argument for how search will help make sense of the “AppWorld” - the ecosystem of apps - just as it did for the web.
I agree, though the most important part is the data of course. It’s already there, it just needs to be mined.
http://battellemedia.com/archives/2010/06/of_course_apple_is_going_to_do_search_
Cronenberg films - becoming over transcending…transgression over transcendence too?
Interstitial scenes…..
Shaviro - scifi- “It shows us how profoundly haunted we are by what has not yet happened.”
Quotidian data - what can be done with the digital detritus of lingering metadata? How can this be harnessed to make meaning and convey ideas and emotions through?
How to tie them together?
In order to more fully conform to white bourgeois patriarchal ideals, hipsters attempt to disassociate themselves with the very white bourgeois patriarchy that underwrites the privilege accorded to this sort of innovative rebel. “Hipsters”, in their claims to alienation from white bourgeois patriarchy, are really only attempting to one-up the white bourgeois patriarchy at its own game (by being more macho, more white)….Simultaneously read as white but not-quite white, non-white but not quite non-white, hipsters “embody” non-white corporeal styles for the express purpose of asserting their white, masculine, bourgeois privilege.
— Robin James, “In, But Not Of, Of But Not In: On Taste, Hipness, and White Embodiment” (via steveshaviro)
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Olfactory-auditory integration adds to a growing list of intimate connections between sensory systems. “While we like to think that there are five separate senses, that’s not the way it works,” remarks Donald Katz, a neurobiologist at Brandeis University. “What your brain really does is take objects and process them.
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Scientific American, April 2010: Making Scents of Sounds: Noises May Alter How We Perceive Odors
(The neurobiology of object-oriented ontology)
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Testing
The cultural logic of late capitalism may have been pastiche and irony, but the logic of real subsumption is the mash-up.
— Unemployed Negativity, commenting on Dollhouse. (via steveshaviro)
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We tend to blame people and let architecture off the hook. But the structures we live within shape our behavior and govern what is possible just as the physical architecture of our towns both emerge from and reinforce the way we see world.
