July 2010
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May 2010
1 post
today i streamed my consciousness into google
lifebyproxy:
and now they can sell it back to me via tastefully unobtrusive text ads
January 2010
1 post
September 2009
2 posts
“As for his plan, we profess to be able to demonstrate that there is no such...”
– General Gourgaud, “Examen critique de l’ouvrage de M. le comte Philippe de Ségur”
August 2009
7 posts
“The otaku, the passionate obsessive, the information age’s embodiment of...”
– William Gibson, April 2001 edition of The Observer
“Romantic Old Maids Can Hear the Words of Love They Long For” (1928); cited in Paleo-Future:
At the same rate of progress it should not require more than a decade or so before a person can go to a store and pick out from the show case most any kind of automatic man or woman he or she might fancy — an ideal servant or workman who would ask no food or wages but a little current...
July 2009
12 posts
Watch“Streamlines are not just beautiful, but also safer, cheaper and more comfortable.”
WatchTheater advertisements for the first all-new automobile to be placed on the market after World War II, the Oldsmobile Futuramic.
“When the angels wish to descend to the lower world, they have to don earthly...”
– The Zohar
“Where an Analytic Cubist picture has a bitter, caustic aspect, a Synthetic...”
– “Cubist Hypochrondra,” Donald Kuspit
Obituary: Professor Leszek Kolakowski →
Leszek Kolakowski’s academic field was hard to pin down. He was at once philosopher, historian, theologian, political scientist and literary critic. As a philosopher he radically changed his views several times during his life in ways that reflected the postwar political developments of his native Poland. He began as an enthusiastic Marxist, becoming chair of Warsaw University’s philosophy...
WatchFuture wars in space
“Television will make it possible for an employer in Buenos Aires to interview a...”
– Arthur Radebaugh, Closer Than We Think, November 29, 1959
