February 2012
6 posts
“Unincorporated margins,interior islands void of activity, oversights, these...”
– de Sola-Morales, Terrain Vague
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Tide and Current Taxi →
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“If today’s Internet has a Baron Haussmann, it is Facebook.”
– Morozov, The Death of the Cyberflaneur
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“Beginning on January 12, the Bureau of Unknown Destinations will offer temporary...”
– Bureau of Unknown Destinations
January 2012
3 posts
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“According to my (unscientific) data collection efforts, the average parking...”
– Revolution Rickshaws talking about other ways to find 596 acres
November 2011
2 posts
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“[Palantir]’s grand, patriotic mission is to ‘protect the Shire.’”
– Palantir, the War on Terror’s Secret Weapon
October 2011
8 posts
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“The protesters should fall in love with hard and patient work – they are the...”
– Occupy first. Demands come later
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“Rather than killing the disease, we strengthen the body. People are confused and...”
– Douglas Rushkoff, Occupy Wall Street and Reclaiming the Internet from Corporations
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“The Occupy movement — like so many movements around the world now —...”
– Rebecca Solnit, This Land is Your (Occupied) Land
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“The important thing is not just to make demands upon our rulers, but to build up...”
– Dear Occupiers: A Letter from Anarchists
“One of the things that revolutionaries have learned over the course of the 20th...”
– David Graeber
August 2011
3 posts
“When I bought these parcels at the New York City auction, the description of...”
– Matta-Clark on Fake Estates
“I have no particular love for the idealised “worker” as he appears...”
– Orwell in Homage to Catalonia, quoted in “London burns…”
July 2011
9 posts
“[Paglen] compares his work to the one of an astronomer because he deals with...”
– Trevor Paglen’s talk at Transmediale
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The Lost Drone Army →
June 2011
1 post
May 2011
1 post
March 2011
1 post
“[T]his is the limit that even the most omnipotent police force cannot broach. We...”
– Calvino, If on a winter’s night a traveler
February 2011
1 post
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“Some people of privilege will say that there is nothing they can do and...”
– Allies Organizing Against Gentrification
January 2011
1 post
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“Tobocman’s first rule of politics: everyone is an anarchist when it comes...”
– Comix are the Weapon
November 2010
3 posts
“In a way it is even humiliating to watch coal-miners working. It raises in you a...”
– George Orwell, Down The Mine, 1937
(via curate)
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October 2010
3 posts
“But when they’ve got everything on God’s loving earth that they can...”
– Huey Long
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September 2010
3 posts
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“That it would be difficult to produce a sate highway map without highways is...”
– Wood, The Power of Maps
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“Cartography deploys its vocabulary accordingly so that it embodies a systematic...”
– J Brian Harley
August 2010
5 posts
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“One of the biggest things I’ve learned in my time and research with slums, in my...”
– On empowerment and attitude
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“A map is an abstraction from concrete reality which was designed and motivated...”
– Yves Lacoste
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“My interests in the geographical ideas of indigenous peoples of North America...”
– Empowerment, Marginalization, and “Community-Integrated” GIS