Daily Beast features a nice chart and timeline of the Bauhaus movement.
Wednesday 4 March 2015
duktig or arts and crafts
five horsemen or executive-decision
Slate magazine has a pretty provoking essay on the nature of our executive faculties of decision making, also known as free-will, and how technologies emerging a-pace is altering the landscape of choosing and prerogative.
In some ways, buffeted by legislated morality disguised as cautious health and safety regulations, our feelings of being in control, having a choice translated into a statement and stance, individual will seems strengthened. There is some hint of distaste, however, that that confidence is illusory, and that seed of doubt is sown in a very fecund field. Maybe when faced with a paucity of alternatives, we’d like to imagine that we’re still being deliberative in a narrow framework—where the technology has already decided for us. The article speaks of five horsemen, those galloping fields of bio-engineering, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanites and the manipulation of judgment, perception and reason (also said to embrace free-will itself), that are canting leagues—some say, of the institutions, laws and even our own ability to cognitively cope, which while not heralds of assured destruction do seem to announce an era of difficult choices and direct dialogue.
catagories: ⚕️, ๐ก, ๐ญ, philosophy, revolution
five-by-five
lunchables: 3-D printer creates living, growing food
promenade: bouncing, dancing continental gifs
ants go marching two by two: a study of the social insects reveals the dangers of isolation
corporate raider: The Guardian presents an historical overview of the East India Company
quantum triviality
catagories: ๐ก, ๐บ, ๐ญ, The Simpsons, Wikipedia
Tuesday 3 March 2015
gazetteer
Vox complies an interesting and sometimes rather chilling glimpse of alternative histories and outcomes mapped-out graphically in twenty unrealized battle plans, contingency operations, secessionists’ aspirations, and massive infrastructure projects.
catagories: ๐จ๐ฆ, ๐ท๐บ, ๐, ๐, ๐, ๐บ️, foreign policy, revolution, transportation
five-by-five
great tribulation: Collectors’ Weekly features a gallery of apocalyptic images from the 17th century Augsburg Book of Miracles
cinderella dressed in yellow: a fancy jump rope prototype uses one’s persistence of vision as a display medium
hologram: actor Hugh Jackman promotes latest film with a virtual interview junket
engineered obsolesce: France is combatting throw-away consumerism by mandating expiration dates for electronic goods
pasteurised interface: writing for รon magazine, Samuel Arbesman, mourns the why sleek and magical operating systems has alienated tinkering and understanding of how computers and programs work
catagories: ⚕️, ๐ฉ๐ช, ๐ก, environment, networking and blogging