‘When I was writing the zines,’ Ford remembers, ‘I was drifting through a London haunted by traces and remnants of rave, anarcho-punk scenes… The idea that I was moving through a spectral city was really strong… Savage Messiah rediscovers the city as a site for drift and daydreams… The eroticism here is… an art of collective enjoyment, in which a world beyond work can — however briefly — be glimpsed and grasped.
When Robbins was asked to explain his "gift" for storytelling in 2002, he replied: "I'm descended from a long line of preachers and policemen. Now, it's common knowledge that cops are congenital liars, and evangelists spend their lives telling fantastic tales in such a way as to convince otherwise rational people that they're factual. So, I guess I come by my narrative inclinations naturally."
no more teacher's dirty looks
(2/3) problems, evaluating solutions, diagnosing difficulties, and motivating alternative proposals. More concretely, it will require a praxis of daily work: forms of language, career strategies, and social networks that support the exploration of alternative work practices that will inevitably seem strange to insiders and outsiders alike. This strangeness will not always be comfortable, but it will be productive nonetheless, both in the esoteric terms of the technical field itself and in the
eren read ayn rand
eren creates himself as the founder titan (god) gatsby sprang from his own mind
Susan Sontag on the Photographer as Flâneur
Polis is a collective blog about cities worldwide.
Flânerie without Politics: The Middle-Class Fetishization of the City
The middle-class spectacle of urban decay.
Flânerie without Politics: The Middle-Class Fetishization of the City
The middle-class spectacle of urban decay.
Punk subculture
The punk subculture includes a diverse and widely known array of music, ideologies, fashion, and other forms of expression, visual art, dance, literature, and film. Largely characterised by anti-establishment views, the promotion of individual freedom, and DIY ethics. The culture originated from punk rock.
Deep research requires a slower pace than tech industry work
Anyone working in an industry for a while will become accustomed to that culture—its processes, its norms, its values, its tacit knowledge. Much of this is incredibly valuable, of course, but these ideas can also represent constraints. There are some important impedances here between tech industry culture and research culture. In particular, tech culture is calibrated to a much faster pace. This can lead to impatience or early abandonment when confronting problems which require a researcher’s pace.
The information flaneur: a fresh look at information seeking
Sensibilities as Knowledge in Design Research
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The information flaneur: a fresh look at information seeking
Still Life with Woodpecker
Still Life With Woodpecker (1980) is the third novel by Tom Robbins, concerning the love affair between an environmentalist princess and an outlaw. The novel encompasses a broad range of topics, from aliens and redheads to consumerism, the building of bombs, romance, royalty, the Moon, and a pack of Camel cigarettes. The novel continuously addresses the question of "how to make love stay" and is sometimes referred to as a "fable-parody".
Tom Robbins Quotes
"I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred." - Tom Robbins
Übermensch | Social Sciences and Humanities | Research Starters | EBSCO Research
<p>The concept of "Übermensch," introduced by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in his 1880s work "Thus Spoke Zarathustra," describes an evolved form of humanity that transcends conventional human limitations and societal norms, particularly those imposed by religious structures. Translated as "overman" or "superman," the term represents an ideal that Nietzsche believed humanity should strive toward, emphasizing self-overcoming and the rejection of outdated moral frameworks. The Übermensch is often illustrated through metaphorical transformations, such as that of a camel, which bears the weight of traditional values, into a lion, which challenges those values, and ultimately into a child, symbolizing new beginnings and creativity.</p> <p>Interpretations of the Übermensch vary significantly—some view it as a physical evolution, while others see it as a mental or philosophical transformation. The concept has also been misappropriated in modern contexts; notably, the Nazis distorted Nietzsche’s ideas to justify their racial superiority agenda, despite Nietzsche himself being a critic of nationalism and anti-Semitism. The ambiguity in translation and interpretation has led to ongoing debates about the true meaning and implications of Nietzsche's Übermensch, with scholars exploring its relevance in discussions of personal autonomy, artistic freedom, and the potential for human evolution.</p>
Computer Lib/Dream Machines
Computer Lib/Dream Machines is a 1974 book by Ted Nelson, printed as a two-front-cover paperback to indicate its "intertwingled" nature. Originally self-published by Nelson, it was republished with a foreword by Stewart Brand in 1987 by Microsoft Press. In Steven Levy's book Hackers, Computer Lib is described as "the epic of the computer revolution, the bible of the hacker dream. [Nelson] was stubborn enough to publish it when no one else seemed to think it was a good idea." Published just before the release of the Altair 8800 kit, Computer Lib is often considered the first book about the personal computer.
Nelson_T_1974_-_Computer_Lib,_Dream_Machines (dragged).pdf
Toward a Critical Technical Practice
This is a chapter in Geof Bowker, Les Gasser, Leigh Star, and Bill Turner, eds, Bridging the Great Divide: Social Science, Technical Systems, and Cooperative Work, Erlbaum, 1997.
Toward a Critical Technical Practice
This is a chapter in Geof Bowker, Les Gasser, Leigh Star, and Bill Turner, eds, Bridging the Great Divide: Social Science, Technical Systems, and Cooperative Work, Erlbaum, 1997.
Übermensch
In his final years, already heavily plagued by mental decline, Nietzsche began to believe that he was in fact Polish, not German, and was quoted as saying, "I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman, without a single drop of bad blood, certainly not German blood".[20][21] In defiance of nationalist doctrines, he claimed that he and Germany were great only because of "Polish blood in their veins",[22] and that he would "[have] all anti-semites shot." Nietzsche died long before Hitler's reign, and it was partly Nietzsche's sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche who manipulated her brother's words to accommodate the worldview of herself and her husband, Bernhard Förster, a prominent German nationalist and antisemite.[23] Förster founded the Deutscher Volksverein (German People's League) in 1881 with Max Liebermann von Sonnenberg.[24]
Memories of the Future (Episode) | Attack on Titan Wiki | Fandom
This article is about the 79th episode of the Attack on Titan anime. For the manga chapter of the same name, see Memories of the Future (Chapter). Memories of the Future (未来の記憶 Mirai no Kioku?) is...
Quote #1 (chapter 6)
Gatsby portrays himself as a “Son of God” which showed us that Gatsby knew he was in this world for much more as well as having ambition to become part of the wealthy, rich status. By being the...
Memories of the Future (Episode) | Attack on Titan Wiki | Fandom
This article is about the 79th episode of the Attack on Titan anime. For the manga chapter of the same name, see Memories of the Future (Chapter). Memories of the Future (未来の記憶 Mirai no Kioku?) is...
Tom Robbins Quotes
"I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred." - Tom Robbins
A quote by Umberto Eco
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
