November 2011
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Reblog this if you love "Community" and want NBC...
August 2011
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June 2011
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May 2011
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Paper Tigers: What happens to all the... →
This is an intelligent, clear-sighted article. It’s one of the few I’ve read that discusses cultural difference in a value-neutral way, pulling shit apart without falling into the traps of useless generalisation, essentialising, political correctness, or hysteria. There’s definitely an awareness of cultural capital, the significance of community as a value (and as something that...
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"The Conservatives are like Nickelback. I don't...
April 2011
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wall of sound →
The iPod has changed the way we listen to music. And the way we respond to it.
“At the same time, modes of listening seem to be moving toward the (apparent) opposite of micro-differentiation: a total pluralism of taste. This has become the most celebrated feature of the iPod era. “I have seen the future,” Alex Ross, music critic of The New Yorker, wrote in 2004, “and it...
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in defense of readers →
An absolutely beautiful article about how paratext works when applied to online reading (and what web designers should do about it). The author is eloquent, compelling, and very obviously in love with reading & books; my inner bibliophile made a tiny noise of joy when I finished reading this.
“Think of your first encounter with a book. You look at the cover to get a sense of it, then...
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resonant frequency #43: degrees of difficulty →
“I’ve had many of these “projects” in my life, albums that I didn’t enjoy at all the first few times through but kept anyway, hoping that someday they’d eventually click. It’s a tough notion to hold on to, especially now. There are so many records competing for attention, and so many are potentially appealing on first listen. But it’s important, I...
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kanye west and the essence of self-expression →
“Every music fan has stories like this. There’s a delicious, productive tension at the heart of a pop song, between the personal and the universal, which anyone who’s fretted over a mixtape will grasp intuitively. No other popular art form relies so much on the first person, which makes pop a vehicle for the most intense self-expression, not just by the people who make it but by...
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aftershock: the blast that shook psycho platoon →
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this is your brain on art →
“Theories of art have proliferated for as long as we’ve had philosophy and theory. All of them have tried, in one way or another, to elucidate general principles. The problem, as Ramachandran understands it, is that we simply haven’t known enough about how the brain operates. Now, he says, that situation has finally changed. He claims specifically that, ‘our knowledge of...
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March 2011
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cannonade, paper tiger
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“There is a subtle state most dedicated urban walkers know, a sort of basking in...”
– “The Solitary Stroller and the City,” Rebecca Solnit
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a case of you (joni mitchell cover), james blake
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“My apologies to great questions for small answers.”
– Wislawa Szymborska
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cmyk, james blake
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new vocabulary →
quoted from the article:
“Throughout a class of genres and micro-genres, there seems to be a new musical vocabulary emerging, one centered around the way vocals are being manipulated to create moods and atmospheres defined by their amorphous, often spectral nature. Ghost voices. It’s something like what happened in the film Inception, the way music could be heard through layers of...
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death, taxes, heartbreak →
The best break-up post I have ever read.
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ask an abortion provider →
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why we all need planned parenthood →
Other good articles on the defunding of Planned Parenthood, and the issues surrounding it, here, here, here, here, and here.
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be mine (ocelot mthrfckrs remix), robyn
I have...
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on the uses of a liberal education (as lite... →
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how we know →
“‘Meaning is irrelevant:’ declared that information could be handled with greater freedom if it was treated as a mathematical abstraction independent of meaning. The consequence of this freedom is the flood of information in which we are drowning. The immense size of modern databases gives us a feeling of meaninglessness. Information in such quantities reminds us of Borges’s...
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February 2011
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out in hollywood: starring roles are rare →
“Jasika Nicole, 28, an F.B.I. agent on “Fringe,” a new Fox drama, said that as bigger parts became available, her manager, John Essay, sat her down and asked how public she wanted to be about being a lesbian. Some roles could be lost, he told her, as would some fans.
Mr. Essay, who is gay, said he encouraged openness but warned clients of the risks.
“If it becomes exaggerated,” he said,...
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“So what makes a space a place? Place is alive with ghosts. It is an architecture...”
– Diane Chisholm, Edmonton On Location: River City Chronicles
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don't slam the ivory tower →
one of my blog posts for my english 380 class. I adore that I went totally obscure and off-topic with this one, and found out that other people have been thinking about it, too.
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“With Derrida, you can hardly misread him, because he’s so obscure. Every...”
– John Searle (I don’t totally agree, but it’s hilarious.)
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the angels are surely weeping, young galaxy