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by mccoyspace 10y ago
It's informative to look at actual examples of SHTF scenarios, war zones for example. In Afghanistan, Chechnya, Syria and so on, groups band together for survival. As far as I can tell it isn't particularly about the fortified red
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"As for the real world you can observe demand satiation right now among different ranks of the rich. Look at billionaires. They consume much more than the man who has only a few million in the bank, but sub-linearly more." Which i
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I'm an artist and professor of digital art so I know right where this writer is coming from. You can't underestimate the importance of Processing in forging this pathway for artists and designers to connect with computer science a
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Connecting the emergence of Modern art to developments in Capitalism is hardly novel in the field of art history. Here is a very mainstream art history book that develops this thesis in detail [1]. Here is MoMA explicitly linking the develo
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As a kid in 4H I raised purebred Duroc and showed them at the Evergreen State Fair. You had to train them to respond to cane taps, move right and left, stop start, strike standard poses so the judges could rate breed characteristics, etc. I
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But the definition of work changes and the value of that work also changes. Bitcoin's internal self-referentiality and internally self-transparent genesis sidesteps this issue. "This means the suffering (work units) incurred by th
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MFA in electronic arts, BA in philosophy. An art practice allows you an opportunity to trust your instincts while working through a problem. I think this is a big advantage. Also, art making is production oriented -- you work through the is
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This is a good idea, but why do you have to actually live there? You could approach this as a co-ordination problem between remote participants. Find a stringer in Odessa and Baku to get a model and photographer. The writers can come from w
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I can see them from my window! They are great. There is also an interesting public artwork their made by the artist/architect Vito Acconci.
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Same here. I got a Fitbit Charge HR for father's day this year. It was broken 3 months later. I just haven't had time to deal with contacting them to get a replacement, so, like that, it was over.
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with integrated sponsorship. "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom"
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"I define". There's your problem right there. "Exactly represents" is your other problem. Your description paints a picture of high entropy (and wonders how that could be the basis for computational consciousness),
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Thanks for the followup. I enjoyed reading the article and it is a very interesting project and a great effort. I did read at the end that it was about how to amplify the efforts of the human curators -- a great problem to tackle.
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Here goes: Aesthetic Theory is a posthumous book by German philosopher Theodore Adorno and is one of the most important works on aesthetics in 20th century philosophy. In it, he combines elements from Kant, Hegel and Marx. From Kant's
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Rhizome is an art organization, and they are approaching it in the context of art, rather than online culture. They began implementing an archiving project in the early '00s called Art Base that contains over 2000 works. These new effo
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by mccoyspace 10y ago
In the academic context I believe the set of people should be considered to be immutable, especially given small, specialized communities. When he goes on the market again, this post will be available for all to see, and the perception that
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This is a variation on Apophatic theology [0], the belief that the Devine can only be understood by what it is not. A great example of it can be found in Ch 4 & 5 of "The Mystical Theology" by Dionysius the Areopagite, circa 5
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So you are dividing the world into a classical and modern/postmodern halves. When does your modernism start? What triggers it? Is it the Avant Guards of the late teens and 20's, unleashed by the horrors of the WW1? Is it the loos
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Great. Can we artists get our term back, then? Thanks.
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Good to see there is still room for the high-concept blockchain puff piece article.
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FWIW, this story parallels the reality that most professional artists have experienced for a long time: hyper competition, extremely limited grant opportunities, no direct commercial market, everything paid out-of-pocket. A "compulsory
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While aerial lethal robotic forces have been used for years, this is the first time I've heard of ground-based lethal robots. It's amazing that it's happened first not by the military in a war situation, but by domestic polic
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And don't forget Mondo 2000. Earlier, more counter-culture and techo-utopian (or maybe dystopian...)
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Your conclusion that it is "a very techno-utopian vision of the world" is spot-on, and that's because of the key Marxist concept of Historical Materialism, an idea that Marx developed prior to the work in Das Kapital. It says