Norman Bel Geddes’ models have added an extra dimension to pictorial reporting. By recreating large or small parts of the sea and the earth’s surface in miniature they have made it possible for the camera to take positions which would normally be highly unusual or impossible. By the use of these models, the lens may [...]
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Norman Bel Geddes’ Miniatures
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“I want my heart to be open”
This is a moving and engaging presentation given by Karen Sandler, executive director of the GNOME foundation, at OSCON 2011. After she received a hypertrophic cardiomyopathy diagnosis, she realized that the source code running her defribrillator implant was closed, proprietary, and unregulated by the FDA. She does a great job outlining the numerous implications closed-source [...]
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Écriture, corps social, inscription
16. C’était une idée durkheimienne que le code social s’inscrit sur la nature individuelle en la mutilant. L’écriture, aurait donc pour forme première la mutilation, qui donne force d’emblème. Voir Emile Durkheim, Les formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse, Paris, PUF, 1968. De Certeau, M. (1990). L’invention du quotidien. 1. Arts de faire. Paris: Gallimard. [...]
Living Bridges
Along the banks of the region’s many rivers, rubber fig trees grow shallow root systems that cling to the tops of rocks and other surfaces. Residents figured out that , using the trunks of other trees, they could guide these roots to grow straight and long – across to the opposite bank. On the other [...]
Genetic Premunition
BUENOS AIRES — An Argentine laboratory announced that it had created the world’s first transgenic cow, using human genes that will allow the animal to produce the equivalent of mothers’ milk. “The cloned cow, named Rosita ISA, is the first bovine born in the world that incorporates human genes that contain the proteins present in [...]
Exappropriation
Ce qui est absolument singulier chez chacun de nous, ce qui est absolument idiomatique, la signature disons, c’est paradoxalement ce que je ne peux pas me réapproprier. Ça m’est absolument propre, mais je ne peux pas me le réapproprier, c’est ça le paradoxe, et c’est ce qu’un film nous donne à penser. Le film me [...]
“Trace et archive”
Le concept de trace est si général que je ne lui vois pas de limite, en vérité. Pour dire les choses très vite, il y a très longtemps, j’avais essayé d’élaborer un concept de trace qui fût justement sans limite, c’est-à-dire bien au-delà de ce qu’on appelle l’écriture ou l’inscription sur un support connu. Pour [...]
Interview with Ben Fry (Where 2.0 2011)
I found this on Nathan Yau’s excellent blog, Flowing Data. The video link comes from Ben Fry’s firm Fathom Design, and features a talk on data visualization with Mac Slocum, O’Reilly Radar’s editor. One of Fry’s answers will get anyone into media history, media ecology or mediology to watch the whole interview: Q: A point [...]
Excerpt from “Transhumanism Meets Design”, an Interview with Natasha Vita-More
What do you think are interesting nascent signals of biology extended through technology taking shape in current apps/services/products? Usually a signal is a flashing red light, or a sharp sound. The nascent signals my brainwaves are picking up are somewhat invisible, but exceedingly active. For example, it is as if the human body’s cells have [...]
Imagination, the Self and Mathematical Reasoning, according to Peirce
§1. Ground, Object, and Interpretant†1 227. Logic, in its general sense, is, as I believe I have shown, only another name for semiotic ({sémeiötiké}), the quasi-necessary, or formal, doctrine of signs. By describing the doctrine as “quasi-necessary,” or formal, I mean that we observe the characters of such signs as we know, and from such [...]
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