links for 2007-01-09
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Education holds the key to be the true equaliser of society in South Africa and that the situation is as dire as it is 13 years after the end of Apartheid is nothing short of a slow moving tragedy.
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the virtual is a supplement in the Derridean sense, in that it takes the form of an addition, but ends up reconfiguring the original to which it has been added.
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If you look at the rise of social tech amongst young people, it’s not about divorcing the physical to live digitally. MySpace has more to do with offline structures of sociality than it has to do with virtuality
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Instead of viewing these media as surrogates or complements for real-world interaction, we can see them as increasingly organic prostheses of interaction that aid and demonstrate the production of a new subjectivity that trancends both the crowd and the i
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Since September 2005 we started assembling AV material around the regeneration process of the Deptford area, asking community members, video artist, film-makers, visual artists and students to contribute statements, feedbacks, critiques of the regeneratio
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Still an early release, but successfull beyond my wildest dreams.
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On the 17th March 2007 the first all-day Open Knowledge event is taking place in London. This event will bring together individuals and groups from across the open knowledge spectrum and will include panels on open media, free of copyright mapping and ope
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Deptford.TV is an audio-visual documentation of the regeneration process of the Deptford area, South-East London. see
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Illuminate productions are pleased to present EXIT - The first London solo show of British graffiti artist SheOne - James Choules.
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Is this muting of the interior monologue, this waning sense of self as a “distinct individual,” the product of a kind of communication that is at once written and oral — both individualistic and collective?
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it seems that the age of networked reading and writing promises to get us much closer to one of the crucial aspects of oral culture — the sense that the story teller/author and the audience/reader are joined together in a collective enterprise where the
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he is constructing a multidimensional model of Western culture from its preliterate oral matrix through the development of alphabetic writing in the ancient Hebrew and Greek traditions to the development of the Gutenberg printing press and to the more rec
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Whereas brain-computer interfaces enable people to control various aspects of their environment, the goal of augmented cognition is to determine peoples’ cognitive state in order to enhance it
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The goal of AugCog science and technology is to develop computational methods and neurotech tools that can account for and accommodate information processing bottlenecks inherent in human-system interaction
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He’s having a tough time sleeping, which means I’m having a tough time working. I just tried laying down with him to take a nap with him, to see if that made a difference.
And out of this, came some visualization and relaxation tips
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Blame it on the Industrial Revolution. Or maybe on the light bulb. But ever since man met machine, sleep has been on the skids.

