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Machines of Loving Grace
“Conspiracy, one is tempted to say, is the poor person’s cognitive mapping in the postmodern age; it is the degraded figure of the total logic of late capital, a desperate attempt to represent the latter’s system, whose failure is marked by its slippage into sheer theme and content.” – Fredric Jameson, Cognitive Mapping Adam Curtis […]
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Machines of Loving Grace
“Conspiracy, one is tempted to say, is the poor person’s cognitive mapping in the postmodern age; it is the degraded figure of the total logic of late capital, a desperate attempt to represent the latter’s system, whose failure is marked by its slippage into sheer theme and content.” – Fredric Jameson, Cognitive Mapping Adam Curtis […]
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MIT Femtosecond Laser Camera Shoots Pics Around Corners, No Periscope Required
Femtosecond Transient Imaging Camera Culture, MIT Media Lab To most of us, seeing what’s around the corner before rounding the bend is known as premonition. For students and professors at MIT’s Media Lab, it’s called physics. The lab is working on a laser-based camera that can snap images around corners, imaging scenery that is beyond […]
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Amazon.com Launches Movie Studio
The world’s largest Internet retailer Amazon.com is known for many things besides shopping – Kindle eBook readers, for example, or its cloud computing infrastructure known as Amazon Web Services – but Amazon as a movie studio? That one seemed to come out of left field, didn’t it? Well, it's true – kind of. Amazon is […]
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Sorkin vs. Zuckerberg
he tragedy—small in the scale of things, no doubt—of this film is that practically everyone watching it will miss this point. Practically everyone walking out will think they understand genius on the Internet. But almost none will have seen the real genius here. And that is tragedy because just at the moment when we celebrate […]
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With a Little Help From His Friends | Culture | Vanity Fair
With a Little Help From His Friends At 19, Sean Parker helped create Napster. At 24, he was founding president of Facebook. At 30, he’s the hard-partying, press-shy genius of social networking, a budding billionaire, and about to be famous—played by Justin Timberlake in David Fincher’s new film, The Social Network. By David Kirkpatrick• Photograph […]
