June 30, 2013 #
That’s really the way to read the issues of the Quarterly. Not to try reading the latest one straight through, but order a few back issues from its website, Laphamsquarterly.org, and put them on your bedside table. Each page is an illumination of the consciousness, the culture that created you, and that is waiting to recreate you.
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Lewis Lapham’s Antidote to the Age of BuzzFeed | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine
Lapham speaks the truth: the Quarterly is a perfect bedside-table or idle-plane-waiting companion.
June 29, 2013 #
Turn our schools into LAUNCH PADS for kids’ minds and BE INVOLVED, you big nerd. You know you want to. The “fiscal cliff” is an appetizer — or really just an aperitif – in the cafeteria where we’ll fix our economic woes; education is the Thanksgiving dinner. So take a big bite, because you’re the boss.
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Dear Mr. President: Please junk Race to the Top - Salon.com
This has been lingering in my queue for awhile, but it is still relevant.
June 29, 2013 #
Scaring the kids is a fine and noble thing to do,” he says. “I’m happy to tell kids to prepare for a short life. But it works like this – you can take them through the dark forest, but you must bring them out into the light.
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Terry Pratchett: Sex, death and nature on writing honestly for children.
June 28, 2013 #
It’s really easy to lose track of when you are. Many of our interfaces are really just ways to try to repackage time so that it’s meaningful, so that we can do stuff with it. It’s not that there isn’t enough time but rather that there’s too much of it.
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10 Timeframes | Contents Magazine Paul Ford
June 28, 2013 #
But I never saw it as a waste of time. I wasn’t doing it for a sense of belonging, I just loved discovering things and hoping they’d catch on and travel across the internet. At that time, the internet felt finite, but like it was on the edge of something infinite. I was addicted to watching it grow and change and didn’t care if there was anyone else like me on the internet or not.
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Know Your Internet History! A Chat With Jennifer Sharpe, Early Web Aggregator | The Awl
June 27, 2013 #
We in the West have been fortunate enough to have amassed sufficient power and wealth in the past century to allow us until recently to largely insulate ourselves from the psychic impoverishment we have imposed on others. The Chinese, without this luxury, understood the true nature of our New World Order faster and better than any other nation. This is how China has become the site of the End of the World. This is not an “end” in the sense of termination or finishing point, but in the sense of realization, revelation, purpose. It is the manifestation of the unconscious dream of a capitalist system of social organization based entirely on the binary logic of financial growth.
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Beijing | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters
June 27, 2013 #
The practice of jogging is tolerated to the degree that it does not annoy the walkers
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http://nyti.ms/Z8iGyi 9 European walks
June 26, 2013 #
the blossoming field of neurogastroenterology will likely offer some new insight into the workings of the second brain—and its impact on the body and mind. One day, perhaps there will be well-known connections between diseases and lesions in the gut’s nervous system as some in the brain and spinal cord today indicate multiple sclerosis.
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Think Twice: How the Gut’s “Second Brain” Influences Mood and Well-Being: Scientific American
June 26, 2013 #
And then she started smiling again, not a mocking smile, not as if she were enjoying herself, but a terminal smile, a knotted smile somewhere between a sensation of beauty and misery, though not beauty and misery per se, but Little Beauty and Little Misery, paradoxical dwarves, travelling and inapprehensible dwarves.
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Roberto Bolaño: “Mexican Manifesto” : The New Yorker