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Apr
26
“He believed utterly that there are days in which it is revealed that someone has written a cruel story about you for their own entertainment. He believed, further, that on such days all you can do is follow, dumbly, with your knuckles grazing the ground.”
The Autograph Man. Zadie Smith
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Jan
9
“
Get a large typewriter
and as the footsteps go up and down
outside your window
Hit that thing
Hit it hard
Make it a heavyweight fight
- Hank
” Amazon Kindle: Your Highlights
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Dec
19
Entering the Palace of Bones (by Papa Sangre) a video game without video.
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Dec
8
A diagram of nearly all the characters in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, with connections and relations shown thereamong. (via Infinite Jest Diagram.)
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Nov
12
“The myth of scale is seductive because it is easier to spread technology than to effect extensive change in social attitudes and human capacity. In other words, it is much less painful to purchase a hundred thousand PCs than to provide a real education for a hundred thousand children; it is easier to run a text-messaging health hotline than to convince people to boil water before ingesting it; it is easier to write an app that helps people find out where they can buy medicine than it is to persuade them that medicine is good for their health. It seems obvious that the promise of scale is a red herring, but ICT4D proponents rely—consciously or otherwise—on it in order to promote their solutions.”
Boston Review — Kentaro Toyama: Can Technology End Poverty?
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Wooster Collective: Seen on the Streets of Cusco, Peru
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Nov
6
Flying Lotus - Kill Your Co-Workers (by Warp Records)
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Oct
14
“Thomas Pynchon is one of the great unheard lyricists. His award-winning novel, Gravity’s Rainbow, is full of song lyrics. Depending on how you count, there are around 100 in the book. Over the course of a year, the Thomas Pynchon Fake Book managed to set twenty-eight of them to music.”
The Thomas Pynchon Fake Book
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Oct
6
“the issue of assigning race as a means of coloring Latin@s or people of other ethnicities who do not fall easily into the “white” and “black” racial categories we have configured for ourselves in the United States is a difficult one, fraught with a need to classify and, more than anything, create allies in the fight for social inclusion and recognition, even when there is not an understood alliance on both sides. The process is complicated, and I can imagine quite confusing for many who may have been considered one racial category or possibly not of any particular category at all beyond their nationality in their country of origin, only to come here and receive a racial categorization that is not only inaccurate, but also applied for the sake of ease. It’s much easier to lump all Latin@s into one category of non-white or non-black than to consider that within every single nation in Latin America, there are specific racial categories and groupings that directly correlate to the respective national histories therein.”
Coloring Whiteness: POC Community Building and Mistaken Racial Identity | Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture
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Aug
23
“For a large swath of the nation’s history “the American democratic idea of getting out on the open road, finding yourself, heading for distant horizons was only a privilege for white people,” said Cotton Seiler, the author of “Republic of Drivers: A Cultural History of Automobility in America,”
Recalling ‘Green Book,’ Guide for Black Travelers - NYTimes.com
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