epistemology

boranj


bor • anj | ‘bôrənj; ‘bär- |
adjective

1. having the qualities of an inelegant iterative step that works
    but will eventually be replaced by something better.
2. of or like an evolutionary step.
3. having both functional and awkward qualities.

‘boranj’ is a study in the spread of ideas; an experiment in cultural evolution and idea (or meme) penetration.
We want to see if and how a word can spread from nothing into ubiquitous acceptance, so we created ‘boranj.’



activist, epistemology, ideas, memes

Wordnik

“Wordnik is billions of words, 300 million example sentences, 4.5 million unique words, and over 177,000 comments, 93,000 tags, 74,000 pronunciations, 21,000 favorites and 22,000 lists created by 27,245 Wordniks.”



archive, epistemology, web 2.0

Wolfram | Alpha



abstract, aging, epistemology, web 2.0

Confessions of an Aca-Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins

“Popular culture is defined in part by its immediacy and it is not clear that one can meaningfully understand how it works or what it does without stepping at least temporarily into the realm of the proximate and the passionate.” April 16, 2007, http://www.henryjenkins.org/



cyberculture, epistemology, new media, theory, web 2.0

James Nachtwey on TED Talks

“I was driven by an inherent sense that a picture that revealed the true face of war,
would almost by definition be an anti-war photograph.”

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my tangential thoughts: Abstract art is not abstract: an argument for activism



activist, epistemology, image, war


Neurotechnology: Growing a Brain


“Researchers opened thousands of rat skulls over the years,
removed their brains, and cut them into thin slices,
which they kept alive.”



AI, brain, cruelty, epistemology, killing, neuroscience

In My Language

A M Baggs: “The first part is in my ‘native language’, and then the second part provides a translation, or at least an explanation. This is not a look-at-the-autie gawking freakshow as much as it is a statement about what gets considered thought, intelligence, personhood, language, and communication, and what does not.”

Autism Rights



autism, epistemology, language, thought

Eyes of Science



epistemology, image, nano

Robert ParkeHarrison: The Architect’s Brother



epistemology, image, myth, photography