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wrapping paper in the street
The bonus season’s not even started, but at Goldman and JPM, you can hear the 30-something suits licking their chops all the way out in Albuquerque. Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan today posted incredible multi-billion dollar profits, and we outsiders are left with little to do besides scratch our heads in wonder. Even though the [...]
bastille day
Many people think that freedom and liberty are the bedrocks of our national ideology. Bastille Day and Independence Day give us time to remember the sacrifices of those before us made to secure the political autonomy we enjoy every day.
I’d like to call this the positive conception of freedom. Freedom, in this understanding, is something [...]
the unspeakable trail of katrina
Farish Street in Jackson Mississippi is paved with new bricks and dotted with new street lamps. Saplings punctuate the sidewalk. The dinny exhalations of the South, that place in America that seems older than all others, reverberates along the empty street. The facade of the Ross Furniture Company is all that remains to commemorate the [...]
the cartelization of information
As if on cue, the NYTimes is now running an article considering the ways that traditional media companies can turn a profit in the face of sinking ad revenues and dwindling subscriber numbers. It has this to say:
Internet service providers and media companies [could] sit down together and come up with legitimate offerings that consumers [...]
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against net neutrality.
As per the last post, I’m thinking about media delivery on the internet, and I’ve come around to the idea that net neutrality is a bad idea.
Although most proponents point to the telecommunications and cable companies that are against it, nobody seems to have really thought the problem through to its logical conclusion.
Here it is, [...]
why print media is doomed
Lots of prevarications for and against the proposition that newspapers are doomed, but the numbers don’t seem to lie.
An easier way to tell is by anecdote: I was talking on the phone with my father the other day. He said, “I used to think that you needed to have a newspaper delivered to your house, [...]
the philosophy of information visualization, part I
this is the first in a weekly series of posts about information visualization and its implications for the interpretation of empirical data, philosophical reasoning and the human organization of reality.
One keeps forgetting to go right down to the foundations. One doesn’t put the question marks deep enough down.
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
Information Visualization is one of the new [...]
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new circuits: David Maisel, Gavin Bryars, The Awl, After Habermas, Crash
New circuits a semi-regular set of posts about general trends in the internet’s culture-production organs. The internet is a system, and most of its unintelligibility is due to the sheer speed with which a new idea is released, digested and discarded by the collective wit. In the end this will prove a strength, not a [...]
Posted in new circuits Tagged alex balk, books, choire sicha, criticism, david maisel, film, gavin bryars, new circuits, the awl Leave a comment
speculative realism