Here are some great historical anecdotes about the unanticipated affects of copyright legislation as summarized by David & Rubin from William St. Clair’s The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period: A simple but striking illustration of the potential cultural impact of an interaction between new…
What Masdar really represents, in fact, is the crystallization of another global phenomenon: the growing division of the world into refined, high-end enclaves and vast formless ghettos where issues like sustainability have little immediate relevance. — Nicolai Ouroussoff, New York Times Image: Masdar_City by Foster…
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“In [Chinese artist Jiang Pengyi’s] most recent series, titled Unregistered City, he further explores the present monuments to Chinese modernity – skyscrapers, contemporary high-rise apartments and the curves of Beijing’s express ways – but all done in miniature. Jiang sets his model cities in derelict…
Just six weeks and counting until the Drumbeat Festival for Learning, Freedom, and the Web kicks off. What’s going to happen there? The festival team, together with a fantastic squad of radically disruptive educators and technologists, are putting the pieces in place for an awesome…