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22 January 2014 | Art, History | 2 Comments
кстати, следом за открытым доступом ко всему каталогу изображений, фонд Пола Гетти так же открывает свободный доступ к публикациям их издательства.
прекрасные, я думаю.
зимовка
16 January 2014 | History, Music | No Comments
водбавок к уже упоминавшимся noise archmeida и 433rpm вот еще один архив былых кассетных экспериментов. тоже чудесный.
bloody hell
9 January 2014 | History, Sport | No Comments
и, да, ко всем текущим поражениям надо вспомнить что-то хорошее:
We have new superlatives now when the conversation turns to extraordinary deeds in sport. We can recall the courage of Ali, the cold-eyed winning instinct of Lester Piggott and Ian Botham’s innings at Headingly. But always we will come back to the night United beat Bayern Munich at the Nou Camp. It wasn’t a comeback – it swept beyond the limitations of that term. It was a resurrection.
They won so dramatically that the history of this wondrous competition has a new and permanent asterisk against the line which records United’s 2-1 triumph. It must say: “Won in extraordinary circumstances – possibly divine.”
James Lawton, Daily Express
вот так:
цветы для Элджернона
31 December 2013 | Biology, History | No Comments
пожалуйста, новогодняя, новожизненная история:
[Maurice] Temerlin and his wife raised Lucy [a chimpanzee] as if she were a human child, teaching her to eat with silverware, dress herself, flip through magazines, and sit in a chair at the dinner table. She was taught rudimentary American Sign Language by primatologist Roger Fouts.
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By the time she was 12, Lucy had become very strong and was very destructive in the Temerlin house. Eventually, she was shipped to a chimpanzee rehabilitation center in Gambia, accompanied by University of Oklahoma psychology graduate student Janis Carter. For years, Lucy was unable to relate to the other chimps in the rehabilitation center, and never reproduced, displaying sexual attraction only to humans. Lucy showed many signs of depression, including refusal to eat, and expressed “hurt” via sign language.
а вы говорите Джон Донн.
звучит, как начало романа
20 December 2013 | History, Photo, Story | No Comments
…и еще, случайно застряв проездом в Нижних Овчинках, в старой рюмочной на улице Коммунаров в полуподвале опять встретил Элизабет Тэйлор и Грейс Келли — повариха Иокаста Станиславовна has put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue to find that we…
смешная фотография, правда.
via.
медиа-превращения
23 November 2013 | Culturology, History, Literature | No Comments
чудесный анекдот про носки (sic!) из жизни гениального Фридриха Киттлера — со слов Джеффри Уинтроп-Янга:
Pynchon was a special case in the densely populated Kittler pantheon: he was the only living writer whom Kittler accorded the veneration he usually reserved for dead engineers. And Pynchon was to blame for the only time I saw Kittler lose his cool.
To shore up my finances I had started freelancing for the Südwestfunk, the Southwest German Broadcasting Network. Having reviewed the German translation of Slow Learner, I proposed a longer feature on Pynchon and submitted an outline describing his well-known invisibility. My boss turned it down and accused me of amateurish gullibility: all this talk about Pynchon’s inaccessibility, he scoffed, was nonsense. He had been told by colleagues that Pynchon wasn’t withdrawn at all; on the contrary, he was openly living with his girlfriend in a villa in southern France and happy to talk to anybody who dropped by. In fact, he had just attended the Frankfurt Book Fair wearing his “customary yellow socks.”
The socks got to me, and I suspected they would get to Kittler too. I looked him up in his office the next day. He was in an exceptionally bad mood and quickly worked himself into a state of nicotine-fueled indignation. Long before folks in the Freiburg English department ever heard of Pynchon, he had already read and studied him in English and German. He had deciphered much in Gravity’s Rainbow that US scholars had yet to discover. He had planned to organize a conference in, of all places, Peenemünde but had been shot down by the East German authorities because the Russians appeared to be stationing SS-20s where there once had been V-2s. He had done all this, and now some broadcast stooge had access to Pynchon? He was familiar with his socks? Realizing that he had crossed over into possessive petulance, he calmed down and pointed a cigarette at me. Find out whether there’s anything to it.
Of course there wasn’t. At our next meeting my boss mentioned in passing that the whole story down to the socks had been a case of mistaken identity. I left a note in Kittler’s mailbox: Pynchon’s feet unsullied by culture industry. A few weeks later I ran into him outside the German department, surrounded by the usual praetorian throng. His mood had visibly improved. “Na, was für Socken trägt Pynchon heute?” — “Well, what socks is Pynchon wearing today?” — he cried, his face lit up by a beatific canine smile. “It was a nice touch though. Pynchon himself could have come up with it.” Pause for effect. “In love as in literature, footwear has an undeniable reality effect.” Still grinning and trailed by a puzzled entourage, he disappeared into a lecture hall. It was the last time I ever saw him.
это ли не утрата волшебства, о которой так много писал Вальтер Беньямин?
после войны
10 November 2013 | Geography, History, Photo | No Comments
фотографии Берлина в 90-х.
теперь это уже исторический эскурс, да. и еще, мне кажется, здесь будет сложно увидеть или понять, но Берлин все же один из самых потрясающих городов, что я видел. неизменно живой, эволюционирующий, молодой.
via.
что есть свет
17 October 2013 | History, Humour, Literature | 2 Comments
Александр Поуп, чудесный:
Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night:
God said, “Let Newton be!” and all was light.
ага.
а вы говорите “Барочный цикл” и Король бродяг…
the justification
12 October 2013 | History, Jurisprudence, Privacy, Security | No Comments
Almost 35 years later, the court’s decision — in a case involving the recording of a single individual’s phone records — turns out to be the basis for a legal rationale justifying governmental spying on virtually all Americans. Smith v. Maryland, as the case is titled, set the binding precedent for what we now call metadata surveillance. That, in turn, has recently been revealed to be the keystone of the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of U.S. telephone data, in which the government chronicles every phone call originating or terminating in the United States, all in the name of the war on terror.
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if you still don’t read Threat Level and Danger Room, I think you should. ↩
zero history
9 October 2013 | Culturology, History, Internet | 1 Comment
Казис Варнялис уже не первый год читает в Колумбийском университете лекции, посвященные осознанию культуры новйших времен:
Culture in the Age of Networks historicizes the contemporary as a distinct sociocultural period. In contrast to specialized studies focusing on new media, this project aims to broadly understand contemporary culture as a synthetic historical narrative of a scope comparable to David Harvey’s The Condition of Postmodernity, Fredric Jameson’s Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, or Stephen Kern’s The Culture of Time and Space.
My thesis is that the network is not merely a technology but rather has served as a cultural dominant over the last fifteen years. Just as the machine made industrialization possible while acting as a metaphor for a rationalized, compartmentalized modern society and the programmable computer served the same role for the flexible socioeconomic milieu of postmodernity, today the network not only connects the world, it reconfigures economy, culture, even subjectivity.
силлабус абсолютно замечательный, и мне искренне жаль, что я (или хотя бы Coursera) не там.