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Patrick Cariou wins copyright case against Richard Prince and Gagosian - The Art Newspaper
Judge orders that all infringing copies of Cariou’s Rastafarian photos be impounded and destroyed.
art  culture  copyright  fairuse  richardprince  gagosian 
january 2012 by stml
A Christmas Message From America's Rich | | Rolling Stone
"What makes people furious is that they have stopped being citizens." I've been reading Matt Taibbi for 10+ years, since he founded the Exile, and he's still on it. And I'm in Guernsey, where this kind of rich exceptionalism beds down forever. Hello, it's Christmas, I'm drunk and angry on the Internet. (Oh, and Blackstone owns the Broadgate Estate, on your doorstep. Hello. Wake up now. It's time.)
culture  economics  finance  banks  wealth  financial  money  city  london  blackstone  broadgate 
december 2011 by stml
Clive Thompson on Why Kids Can't Search | Magazine
Digital literacy, critical thinking and the myth of the "digital native" are critical to everything we're doing.
booktwo  search  digital  literacy  culture  education  kids 
november 2011 by stml
The New Patterns of Culture: Slow, Fast & Spiky « TEST
Mistaking nostalgia for business advice. Excellent piece from Matt Locke: please read.
booktwo  attention  culture  trends  nostalgia 
november 2011 by stml
Paradise Regained « Snarkmarket
"This is honest-to-goodness digital humanism, from start to finish. 113 baud keyboards. IBM punch cards. All caps and no punctuation — like a real Latin text!"
booktwo  culture  ebooks  digitisation  gutenberg  etext 
october 2011 by stml
The Book Collection That Devoured My Life - WSJ.com
"But after living in smallish apartments for decades I just spent seven years in a house with a full-size attic, and everything went to hell. Books entered my house under cover of night, from the four winds, smuggled in by woodland creatures, and then they never left. Books collected on every surface; I believe that somehow they managed to breed." Yes, this.
booktwo  bibliomania  books  collecting  culture  literature 
september 2011 by stml
The Children of Cyberspace - Old Fogies by Their 20s - NYTimes.com
“People two, three or four years apart are having completely different experiences with technology,” said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project. “College students scratch their heads at what their high school siblings are doing, and they scratch their heads at their younger siblings. It has sped up generational differences.”
booktwo  reading  culture  technology  kindle 
september 2011 by stml
Change through making | eye | feature
"This domain is rough work, a hard choice, rife with arcane technical priesthoods and subject to the strategic and financial weather in global machines. We are not arguing for an end to traditional design craft, but for designers to have access to a broader palette of materials through literacy in business and software development."
jackschulze  timoarnall  berg  essay  booktwo  creativity  culture  design  change 
august 2011 by stml
Leave Chillwave Alone - Page 2 - Music - New York - Village Voice
"What matters is always the next new name, the latest micro-genre, another MP3 or MediaFire. Artist careers likewise are a continuous drip-drip-drip of releases, a dozen or more per year—there's no reason to edit or hold back, every reason to keep one's name out there. Stimuli streams in, largely via the Web; creativity streams out, largely via the Web. Today's musician is a pure screen, a switching center for all the networks of influence. (That's me echo-jamming Eighties Baudrillard, by the way)." Zones vs States
music  simonreynolds  criticism  internet  culture  flow  chillwave 
august 2011 by stml
The Technium: The Internet Is My Religion
"I think we should prepare ourselves for all kinds of new religions based around the idea of a planetary soul. As in a single web of electronic neurons around the globe, connecting all sentient beings. The Noosphere will go from a hypothetical speculation by a Catholic priest to an outright competitor to the Catholic faith. We will see the rise of Noosnics, Globalists, Overminders, Bit Monks, Quantumarians, and a hundred other sects and cults that take seriously the idea of a glorified planetary spirit as a reflection of the divine." The choice is: what kind of religion? We are six billion people without heads, etc.
culture  internet  religion  kevinkelly 
july 2011 by stml
The Dark Age Netherlands | Beyond The Beyond
“The letter ‘Meer dan kwaliteit’ (‘More than Quality’) by the State Secretary for Culture, Halbe Zijlstra (VVD, People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy) arrived in the electronic mailboxes of Dutch art and cultural institutes on Friday, 10 June 2011. It stated that €200 million would be brutally slashed from the arts and culture budget, starting as early as 1 January 2013.
booktwo  arts  culture  netherlands 
june 2011 by stml
Information overload, the early years - The Boston Globe
"But around 1500, humanist scholars began to bemoan new problems: Printers in search of profit, they complained, rushed to print manuscripts without attention to the quality of the text, and the sheer mass of new books was distracting readers from the focus on the ancient authors most worthy of attention."
booktwo  books  culture  history  technology  information  overload 
june 2011 by stml
The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almost Everything : Monkey See : NPR
"It's undoubtedly true; there are things that fade. But I can't help blaming, in part, the fact that we also simply have access to more and more things to choose from more and more easily. Netflix, Amazon, iTunes – you wouldn't have to go and search dusty used bookstores or know the guy who works at a record store in order to hear most of that stuff you're missing. You'd only have to choose to hear it." On being well-read, now.
booktwo  art  culture  media  abundance  streaming  depth  knowledge 
april 2011 by stml
Twenty reasons why it's kicking off everywhere
"During the early 20th century people would ride hanging on the undersides of train carriages across borders just to make links like these." Pretty extraordinary article from Newsnight Economics ed. Read.
Politics  economics  news  memes  culture  powers  network  networkrealism  internet 
february 2011 by stml
Protected Cultural Property « optional.is/required
Brian Suda made a tshirt of the Cultural Property symbol I mentioned in my dConstruct, and then started noticing it everywhere...
dconstruct  culturalproperty  tshirt  booktwo  history  culture  preservation  sign 
january 2011 by stml
T-Shirtism - Experimental Jetset
"A couple of years after we designed the shirt, we noticed something interesting: people started sending us images of self-produced shirts that were referring to our shirt, either as homage, tribute or as parody. These images were floating around in our mailboxes and attachment-folders... Since then, we received literally hundreds and hundreds of these images."
clothing  design  music  fashion  tshirt  beatles  helvetica  culture  style 
january 2011 by stml
We're only here for the beer: How good, local ales are saving our pubs - Features, Food & Drink - The Independent
"52 of them were closing every week in 2009 (that figure has since dropped to 29, according to the marketing company CGA Strategy)."
pub  booze  uk  licensing  culture  beer  brewing 
january 2011 by stml
The Web Is a Customer Service Medium (Ftrain.com)
"I sometimes chat with people in the book- and magazine-publishing industries. They complain to me about the web. They worry about what is being lost. [...] I call the people who say such things the Gutenbourgeois." Read this.
booktwo  culture  internet  publishing  web  writing 
january 2011 by stml
Cyberspace When You’re Dead - NYTimes.com
Did I mention 2011 is going to be all about death? Have a bunch of notes on this stuff from SXSW. Must dig out.
death  legacy  internet  digital  culture  history  archive  nytimes 
january 2011 by stml
BBC News - Web attack takes Anonymous activists offline
Still can't handle the fact that 4chan is ON THE NEWS. Or that people continue to use the word "hacktivist".
internet  culture  4chan  online  cyberwar  anonymous  hacking  ddos  moot  mental  news 
december 2010 by stml
Flavin and Viola light works ruled “not art” | The Art Newspaper
In its ruling a Flavin work is described as having “the characteristics of lighting fittings…and is therefore to be classified…as wall lighting fittings”. As for Viola, the video-sound installation, says the document, cannot be classified as a sculpture “as it is not the installation that constitutes a ‘work of art’ but the result of the operations (the light effect) carried out by it”.
art  culture  definition  language  tax  government  flavin  viola 
december 2010 by stml
The hard edge of empire - Charlie's Diary
"A revisionist mundane SF steampunk epic — mundane SF is the socialist realist movement within our tired post-revolutionary genre — would reflect the travails of the colonial peasants forced to labour under the guns of the white Europeans' Zeppelins, in a tropical paradise where severed human hands are currency and even suicide doesn't bring release from bondage."
sciencefiction  literature  steampunk  stross  charliestross  criticism  scifi  writing  culture  starpunk 
november 2010 by stml
Kanye West, media cyborg « Snarkmarket
"To understand people like that—and, increasingly, to understand people like us (eep!)—you’ve got to look instead at the sum of their brains, their bodies, the media they create, and the media created by others about them. All together, it constitutes a sort of fuzzy cloud that’s much, much bigger than a person."
booktwo  media  culture  identity  50cyborgs  cyborg  data  cloud 
september 2010 by stml
Stendhal syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Stendhal syndrome, Stendhal's syndrome, hyperkulturemia, or Florence syndrome is a psychosomatic illness that causes rapid heartbeat, dizziness, fainting, confusion and even hallucinations when an individual is exposed to art, usually when the art is particularly beautiful or a large amount of art is in a single place." via Paris Syndrome.
art  wikipedia  psychiatry  stendhal  syndrome  culture  health 
september 2010 by stml
Roerich’s Pact - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Roerich's Pact is a treaty on Protection of Artistic and Scientific Institutions and Historic Monuments, Apr. 15, 1935, 49 Stat. 3267, 167 L.N.T.S. 289 (hereinafter Roerich Pact) entered in USA into force July 13, 1935."
roerich  preservation  history  culture  wikipedia 
september 2010 by stml
Bookride: Oppose Book Worship!
"I had hoped that the book was attacking the mawkish reverence for books that is now so prevalent on web book sites like LibraryThing but Mao has more serious fish to fry..."
booktwo  bookride  books  librarything  bookworship  culture  china  mao 
june 2010 by stml
LRB Panel: The Future of Reading - NYTimes.com
"As a writer, on the other hand, Toibin has found through the Internet a welcome increase in solitude. He doesn’t have to answer an insistent phone, because he can check e-mail at leisure; he doesn’t have to go out to eat, because he can have food delivered; he doesn’t have to go out to buy books, which leaves more time for staying in to write and read, day and night. (“Electricity,” he said — now that was a fine invention.)"
article  reading  booktwo  writing  internet  culture  lrb 
april 2010 by stml
Tough love | Nieman Journalism Lab
Gawker finds making it harder for comments to be seen leads to more (and better) comments.
booktwo  blog  blogging  comments  community  moderation  culture 
april 2010 by stml
The Future Does Not Compute by Stephen L. Talbott
Tim O'Reilly's recommended corrective to Keen, Lanier et al.
booktwo  book  books  culture  ebook  free  future  internet 
march 2010 by stml
Texts Without Context - NYTimes.com
Kakutani takes a look at the perceived erosion of attention by digital media. Still not buying it, but a good summation of one side of the debate.
booktwo  kakutani  nytimes  myt  books  culture  attention  distraction 
march 2010 by stml
Answer: cool Bebo Names
"a swimming pool on an ocean liner"
image  quote  internet  culture  history 
february 2010 by stml
Open Letter From OK Go - OK Go
"Let’s take a wider view for a second. What we’re really talking about here is the shift in the way we think about music. We’re stuck between two worlds: the world of ten years ago, where music was privately owned in discreet little chunks (CDs), and a new one that seems to be emerging, where music is universally publicly accessible. The thing is, only one of these worlds has a (somewhat) stable system in place for funding music and all of its associated nuts-and-bolts logistics, and, even if it were possible, none of us would willingly return to that world."
okgo  emi  musicindustry  music  books  culture  technology  industry  booktwo 
january 2010 by stml
Rands In Repose: The Book Stalker
While I'm not sure buying a Kindle (/other ereader) means you can't do this, this is still wonderful.
booktwo  culture  kindle  ebooks  inspiration  books  reading  bookshelves 
august 2009 by stml
Nascent: The Future Is A Foreign Country
"Think about how somebody from just half a generation ago would try to parse that sentence: "He's reading his phone." It sounds like something out of a Haruki Murakami novel. You might as well tell a record company executive that people have started listening to their cameras. And in fact, they have." Fantastic presentation by Nature's Timo Hannay. Go read.
booktwo  science  publishing  presentation  future  culture 
october 2008 by stml
Kevin Kelly on the Fate of the Book
The Shirky/Carr continuum reaches Kelly - all the technofuturists are getting onto the book now, which can only be a good thing. With lots from Sven Birkerts, whose 'Gutenberg Elegies' I highly recommend.
booktwo  kevinkelly  internet  future  culture  books  book 
august 2008 by stml
An anthropological introduction to YouTube
Michael Wesch, creator of "The Machine is Us/ing Us" talks about YouTube, ugc, the web, community, the future, and much much more. If you only watch one thing...
booktwo  youtube  web2.0  video  presentation  wesch  education  culture  anthropology 
july 2008 by stml
Why Abundance is Good: A Reply to Nick Carr | Britannica Blog
Clay Shirky on the 'Google is making us Stoopid' debate. Shirky points out that the internet has actually resurrected reading, just not in the form or on the subjects its self-appointed guardians would like to see.
booktwo  culture  reading  internet  google  clayshirky 
july 2008 by stml
La Tour Awful: The Truth Is Rendered, by Alissa Walker
"In general I think the 'cut and paste' nature of most online journalism is ironically leading to a kind of high-tech equivalent of medieval superstition and reality is sometimes in danger of getting clouded out."
architecture  blog  business  culture  design  core77  booktwo 
may 2008 by stml
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Clay Shirky
'We're going to look at every place that a reader or a listener or a viewer or a user has been locked out, has been served up passive or a fixed or a canned experience, and ask ourselves ... "could we make a good thing happen?"'
books  booktwo  herecomeseverybody  clayshirky  culture  internet  technology  gin  cookingwithbooze 
april 2008 by stml
Granta: Welcome to the magazine of new writing
Plase One of the new Granta.com went live today. I had a hand in the spec and design with my employer Apt. A long six months, a very stressful last month, and very pleased how it's turned out. Will try and write a longer post soon.
granta  archive  arts  book  culture  fiction  magazine  literature  magazines  literary  aptstudio 
april 2008 by stml
The Charms of Wikipedia [The New York Review of Books]
'On January 11, 2008, the entire fascinating entry on the aardvark was replaced with "one ugly animal"; in February the aardvark was briefly described as a "medium-sized inflatable banana."'
article  essay  culture  wikipedia  internet  wiki  nicholsonbaker  nyrb  booktwo 
march 2008 by stml
My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World by Julian Dibbell
One of the early seminal texts on online culture and virtual worlds, now available as a free download. Thanks, Julian
booktwo  books  free  internet  culture  ebooks 
january 2008 by stml
Things I Am Not Talking About [this is aaronland]
"People in the arts community don't know how to program computers and by blinding themselves to the boring details (mixing your own paint, so to speak) they will never be full participants on the Internet." "Mixing your own paint" is a phrase I'm going to
booktwo  art  paper  culture  internet 
december 2007 by stml
urban cup holder [swissmiss]
When I say hacking, here's another example: city hacking.
culture  urban  cupholder  design  cup  urbanism 
december 2007 by stml
Is The Net Good For Writers? [10 Zen Monkeys]
"Writing as a special talent became obsolete in the 19th century. The bottleneck was publishing." Ignore Kindle, and read this fascinating survey of writers in the age of electronic communication.
booktwo  writing  internet  culture  publishing  history  literature 
november 2007 by stml
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