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PhD student in Digital Culture. These are personal and work-related notes. More structured nonsense elsewhere (or unstructed at Swedish site Rodeo.net).

Mount Kimbie ‘You Took Your Time’ (feat. King Krule)

Hell. Yes.

vortexanomaly: attitude “The example of patriarchy provides an illustration of how the concept of “minority” is used: while there may be more women than men numerically, in Deleuze and Guattari’s terms, which are sensitive to relations of power, men still constitute the majority whereas women form a minority. Thus the concept of “becoming-minor” converges with that of “becoming-woman” (as they say, “everyone has to ‘become-woman’, even women…”),”becoming-animal”, “becoming-molecular”, “becoming-imperceptible” and ultimately, “becoming-revolutionary”. Each type of affective becoming marks a new phase of a larger process that Deleuze and Guattari call deterritorialization.” (Wikipedia).

vortexanomaly:

attitude

“The example of patriarchy provides an illustration of how the concept of “minority” is used: while there may be more women than men numerically, in Deleuze and Guattari’s terms, which are sensitive to relations of power, men still constitute the majority whereas women form a minority. Thus the concept of “becoming-minor” converges with that of “becoming-woman” (as they say, “everyone has to ‘become-woman’, even women…”),”becoming-animal”, “becoming-molecular”, “becoming-imperceptible” and ultimately, “becoming-revolutionary”. Each type of affective becoming marks a new phase of a larger process that Deleuze and Guattari call deterritorialization.”

(Wikipedia).

Woods!

Woods!

hyperallergic: “There can be no immigrants in utopia”: On “Haute Surveillance” by Johannes Göransson 1.Before we settle into our plush, faux-velvet seats, share bags of popcorn and watch the latest… View Post

hyperallergic:

“There can be no immigrants in utopia”: On “Haute Surveillance” by Johannes Göransson

1.
Before we settle into our plush, faux-velvet seats, share bags of popcorn and watch the latest…

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Went to see The Boss yesterday. He shut it down.

Went to see The Boss yesterday. He shut it down.

Last night: Me and one of my oldest and dearest.

Last night: Me and one of my oldest and dearest.

This historical echo is often audible in the Maker rhetoric around 3D printing and “the Internet of Things”: that they represent a return to something more authentic and personal than the digital. This move is most obviously visible with the Maker obsession with “faires” and hackerspaces, venues for in-person sociability, which is represented as obviously more spiritually nourishing than its remote digital equivalent.

It’s easy to fetishize Brutalist buildings when you don’t have to live in them. On the other hand, when the same Brutalist style is translated into the digital spaces we daily inhabit, it becomes a source of endless whinging. Facebook, for example, is Brutalist social media. It reproduces much the same relationship with its users as the Riis Houses and their ilk do with their residents: focusing on control and integration into the high-level planning scheme rather than individual life and the “ballet of a good blog comment thread”, to paraphrase Jane Jacobs.