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One of the classes at ITP has a very interesting structure – every week there is a guest speaker, and presentations by students responding to the speaker from the previous week. So far the speakers have been tremendously interesting: Vito Acconci and Vik Muniz. Both had a lot in common: Extremely engaging as speakers – […] This article, “The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity”, has been a great help to me in my life. It has made clear many otherwise inexplicable things, and the matrix of different types has been a useful tool for me. The matrix basically classifies actions on two axes: benefiting or harming yourself, plotted against benefiting or […] Great quote by imomus here: “Instead, the football zone represented some kind of religious festival, in which brands were gods. Not the cheerful gods of a matsuri or some Hindu celebration, with their human faces, but the weirdly abstract and faceless gods represented by logos and money: T Mobile, Coca Cola, Adidas, Budweiser, Gillette, Mastercard, […] |
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Hollowed-Out Retail in the US
After living away from the US for so long, lots of things strike me as interesting every day. One thing I’ve noticed recently is what I’m calling “hollowed-out” retail: retail stores have a limited selection of merchandise, suggesting that customers purchase the rest of the items online. In fact, it seems as if they’re pushing […]