February 2012
19 posts
“The success of environmentalism has been total—at the price of its soul.”
– Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist | Orion Magazine
“Art “upgrades” poorer neighborhoods by aestheticizing their status as urban...”
– Art as Occupation: Claims for an Autonomy of Life | e-flux (via anfischer)
Autonomous Angels of Maintenance →
In what appears to be a sponsored post, a short article published on Wired UK presents an interesting scene in which semi-autonomous robots protect undersea internet cables from harm—that is, “dexterous robots toil at the bottom of the sea to safeguard the web.
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How One Ship's Anchor Disrupted Internet Access in... →
In a reminder of just how fragile this web we’ve weaved across the globe is, a ship dropped anchor outside the Kenyan port of Mombasa and happened to hit a bundle of undersea fiber optic cables connecting east Africa to the Internet. Now, the BBC reports, six countries — Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and a piece of South Sudan — are going to experience Internet...
“Man ‘in dispelling one wilderness… has created another,’...”
– Keller Easterling - Organization Space
“In the same way that many organizations change or grow as a result of their own...”
– Keller Easterling - Organization Space
“Pheasant Island is not only the oldest surviving condominium, it is also the...”
– The World’s Most Exclusive Condominium - NYTimes.com
“What we need now, acutely, is a generation of technologists who understand the...”
– Of sidewalks and signals: Learning to listen on the urban frequency | Urbanscale
Will the New Tech of 2012 Prove as Successful as... →
“Sometimes, I look at the last century and I think, the most underrated part of their technologies were that they required lots of people doing bearable stuff for decent money. ”