May 2010
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everything that is elsewhere
Portugal with Maggots
i’m sitting in a little house at the top of a mountain. today i had lunch with my family- wine and salad. always wine. but this morning when i woke there were maggots all over the house. it seems that a couple of days ago my stepmother had left meat in the oven and forgotten. she is almost 80. she drops things, can’t see very well. but she’s fast, and smart and funny. we spent...
January 2010
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An Essay by Jacob Goldbas: A Tension with...
A Tension with Attention in Techno-Reality
An Essay by Jacob Goldbas
In art, Rene Magritte posed a famous problem in his painting The Treachery of Images. The treachery of images is the way appearances tricks the viewer into believing appearance is reality. The painting shows a tobacco pipe, and underneath the pipe, the painting says, “this is not a pipe” in French. The reason the pipe is...
December 2009
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Structured forming fabric and method
Forming fabric for making a bulky web. The fabric includes a machine facing side and a web facing side having pockets formed by warp and weft yarns. A bottom of the pockets is formed an exchange of a different number of the warp and the weft yarns. This Abstract is not intended to define the invention disclosed in the specification, nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.
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November 2009
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The work of Philip E. Agre (from @viveka) →
This is a motherload of really great essays, links, books and resources.
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My companions at the coffee shop.
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After a time she looks up at me and smiles at our...
“…friends whose absence is right now influencing our performance, friends who will receive this “event” at an indeterminate point in the future, and in that reception affirm that it has taken place (in the manner of an ethical act, our friends will bear witness to this event). Later, as we walk around the city, we stop at intervals and pose in front of fountains and...
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Reality Management (Paige in California)
Today I felt suffocated. All day. Like a great big rock was sitting on my chest. I drove around for a while in a borrowed car, on borrowed time. I drank coffee which I knew was a mistake but I did it anyway because even when I know better especially when I know better I still try to believe that I can make it OK. That it’s OK. In the midst of the suffocation and the coffee psychopathology I...
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Belinda Barnet's Infomobility and Technics: Some...
The introduction to Belinda Barnet’s Infomobility and Technics: Some Travel Notes
“The technical artefacts that surround us are more than just extensions of ourselves; they shape and mediate our experience of life and the taking place of space and time. Each technology has its own material genealogy that exceeds human evolution, and some developments have had more impact on human life...
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The Beginning
Is here.