Omnivore. The inaugural issue of Policy and Complex Systems is out, Calestous Juma (Harvard): Complexity, Innovation, and Development: Schumpeter Revisited. David W. Glazier (Loyola): Destined for an Epic Fail: The Problematic Guantanamo Military Commissions. Glenn Greenwald on how the “Cuban Twitter” scam is a drop in the Internet propaganda bucket. Hillel Aron on how Left-wing darling Pacifica Radio is sliding into the abyss. Carole Cadwalladr on Charlotte Laws' fight with Hunter Moore, the internet's revenge porn king. From the journal Class, Race, and Corporate Power, Geoff Ostrove (Oregon): The Political Economy of Financially Successful Independent Hip-Hop Artists. Gregory H. Dmitry Dima Adamsky (IDC): The 1983 Nuclear Crisis: Lessons for Deterrence Theory and Practice. Christopher Marsden (Sussex): Law and Technology. The inaugural issue of the International Journal of Dharma Studies is out.
From the International Journal of Bahamian Studies, a special issue of Caribbean Art Music. The Awl - Be Less Stupid. Public Culture. Public Books — A curated monthly review devoted to spirited debate about books and the arts. Savage Minds | Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog. Gerry Canavan. FlowingData | Data Visualization, Infographics, and Statistics.
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Start your novel. Colossal | A blog about art and visual ingenuity. Brain Pickings. It’s Nice That. The World’s Best Ever:design, fashion, art, music, photography. Research » Blog Archive. The Future of the City 1: Cities in the Digital Age. This is a community post, untouched by our editors. Today we begin our series on The Future of the City in partnership with design mind, a media platform examining trends in emerging technologies and global consumer culture, produced by designers, technologists, and strategists at frog. We’ll be bringing you one new article each day this week.
Shibuya, Tokyo. Source: Gawashi999 / flickr Cities in the Digital Age, by Scott Nazarian, creative director at frog For many people, the draw of cities is their pulse and flow, the veer and crush of humans, our shared machines, the vertical, the symmetrical, the seemingly impossible. This type of interconnected environment has evolved into an interface to computation that is nowhere near as conversational as it might be, as philosopher-scientist Paul Dourish has noted. Whether social or self-defining, physical and digital interaction requires a certain vocabulary that frames perception and action at every turn. Ev Williams. Cartoon Brew: Leading the Animation Conversation.
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