The Changing Laws of Physics

“If the fine-structure constant really does vary through space, it may provide a way of studying the elusive “higher dimensions” that many theories of reality predict, but which are beyond the reach of particle accelerators on Earth. In these theories, the constants observed in the three-dimensional world are reflections of what happens in higher dimensions. It is natural in these theories for such constants to change their values as the universe expands and evolves” The Economist. Aug. 2010 reporting on research by Julian A. King et al.

“…we must elaborate a concept of the contingency of laws that is fundamentally distinct from the concept of chance.” Meillassoux (After Finitude. 2008. p.100)



abstract, academia, physical

INGENSTANS – Talan Memmott



abstract, academia, adversary, aesthetics, digital poetics, popo, video

Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Draft 27: Athwart

There was an other side
a space behind, in back,
an overmuch, an
into which
where muffled voices throb without their names.
…



academia, poet, poetry, popo

Overthinking It

Movies, TV, Music, and Popular Culture… taken way too seriously.



academia, culture, popo

Open Humanities Press : Liquid Books



academia, collaborative, community, cyberculture, web 2.0, writing

Patricia Greenfield: Technology & Informal Education

“By their very nature as a real-time medium,
action video games penalize the player who stops
to reflect. Indeed, no real-time medium—including
film, television, and radio—permits time to reflect
(28). The one communication technology that does
provide time to reflect is the written word…Whereas
reading is associated with reflection, television
is associated with impulsivity…
there is evidence that visual technology
inhibits imaginative response.”



academia, game, reading

Dexter Sinister



academia, adversary, performance

Scott Rettberg

“At this point in the history of electronic literature, the question is not how we can monetize it, in the sense of getting people to pay money for things, but rather how we can communitize it. We don’t need to build a market for electronic literature, but rather a culture that will support and sustain its development.”

Scott Rettberg. Communitizing Electronic Literature. Spring 2009. v3 n2. DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly



academia, community, digital poetics

Caroline Bergvall

“A lot of poets are working audiovisually and yet they really get validated only once they start publishing books.”

Caroline Bergvall in conversation with Sophie Robinson – HOW2

http://www.carolinebergvall.com/



academia, book, digital poetics, poet

Ryeberg

“Ryeberg.com invites smart, distinguished people to select and write about YouTube videos (or videos from any other video-sharing site). Each of these individual pieces becomes a “curated video.” “



academia, video, web 2.0

Text 2.0

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“Imagine there were input devices which could allow text to know if and how it is being read – how would this change the reading experience?”



academia, reading

Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in The Age of Media

“The impact of electronic technology on our lives is now the object of intense study, but what remains obscure is the role, if any, this technology has in shaping the ostensibly private language of poetry.” Marjori Perloff. 1994. p. 2-3



academia, digital poetics, poetry

Susan Sontag’s life in film.


“… formal exploration stretched to its limits may lead not just to a dramatization of the means of making art but to the dissolution of such means, and the dissolution of consciousness, too.”

David Denby. Sept. 12.2005. The Moviegoer : The New Yorker



academia, consciousness, film

William Bernbach

“You just can’t squeeze life into a package. It’s going to ooze out here and there. I think it’s terribly important to be aware of this. Not to be aware of it may lead to an overevaluation of rules and techniques, a tendency to distort and ignore life when it doesn’t fit nicely into your system or theory.”

William Bernbach, “Sometimes I play Things I never heard Myself” in Bierut, Michael. Looking closer 3: classic writings on graphic design. 1999. Page 150



academia, branding, creativity, design

Internet-Age Writing Syllabus

“As print takes its place alongside smoke signals, cuneiform, and hollering, there has emerged a new literary age, one in which writers no longer need to feel encumbered by the paper cuts, reading, and excessive use of words traditionally associated with the writing trade.” Robert Lanham



academia, digital poetics, web 2.0, writing

Allan McCollum | Artist Statement



academia, art, generative, writing

Ludic Society



academia, activist, collaborative, play



“The Ghana ThinkTank is a worldwide network of think tanks creating strategies to resolve local problems in the “developed” world. The network began with think tanks from Ghana, Cuba and El Salvador, and has since expanded to include Serbia, Mexico and Ethiopia. In our most recent project, we sent problems collected in Wales to think tanks in Ghana, Mexico, Serbia, Iran, and a group of incarcerated girls in the U.S. Prison system.”



academia, activist, utopia

Brad Haseman : Tightrope Writing

“… practice-led research [which] enables practitioners to initiate and then pursue their research through practice….conforms to the broad protocols of all research …”



academia, art, research

Cranbrook Academy

Jan-Olaf Nygren. Cocktail. 2006, Silk screen on birch plywood, Ink. Dimensions variable

There are two types of students: those who feel that the responsibility for their education lies with the school, and then those who realize that the responsibility for their education lies within themselves. … We adhere to the advice of Joseph Campbell: “Follow your bliss.”



academia, education, teachings, typography

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