“Do shades nurture? As I have seen my image twinned and blown in the smoked glass of a blind man’s spectacles I am,I am. ….He rolled his swollen head, drew up his knees….I am a mouse in a grassbole crouching. But I can hear come whicket and swish the clocklike blade of the cradle.
He woke with the undersides of his eyelids inflamed by the high sun’s hammering, looked up to a bland and chinablue sky traversed by lightwires.” -Suttree, pg 80
from I Miss My Pencil…
“Punk manufacturing is an extension of the idea of craft. It’s the idea that people want, to some extent, to create the stuff that they buy or use, even if it is mass-produced. But, its about more than just personalization or customization; its about actual participation. People want to play a part in the process of creation, in the evolution of product” – pg 99.
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“Open source culture is the creative practice of appropriation and free sharing of found and created content. Examples include “Collage” , “Found footage” film, music and appropriation art. Open source culture is one in which fixations, works entitled to copyright protection, are made generally available. Participants in the culture can modify those products and redistribute them back into the community or other organizations.” -wikipedia article on OpenSource
Paul Romer from TED talks..
“Romer asserts that we must preserve choices for people and operate on the right scale. A village is too small and a nation too big. Cities give you the right balance. The proposal is he conceives of is a charter city with investors to build infrastructure, firms to hire people and families who will raise children there. All he wants is some good rules, uninhabited land and choices for leaders, which he thinks should translate to partnerships between nations
He notes that some of the audience might be starting to think is this bringing back colonialism. Romer urges everyone not to let the emotions that come up get in the way and shut down new ideas. He says that colonialism involved coercion and condescension — this model is about choice, which is the antidote to those two.”
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“…But what if the Ci-ty were a growing neo-plasm, across the centuries, always changing, to meet exactly the changing shape of its very worst secrets?”- pg 173, Gravity’s Rainbow
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“…These mixtures of co-existing “ages” are not something new but have always characterized human history. Medieval towns were both linguistic and epidemiological laboratories, and many things accumulated within their walls: money, skills, weeds, cattle, manuscripts, prestige, power.” -pg 268, A thousand years of non-linear history
K-OS, “Neutronic”, hip-hop lyric
“If you think about a thought, then you’ll see that you’re timeless
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I find this, very stimulating to the mind
But drives me crazy at the same time
Am i this or that? human or black?
Extra terrestrial or right side of the tracks?
