“‘What was the barn like before it was photographed?’ he said. ‘What did it look like, how was it different from other barns, how was it similar to other barns? We can’t answer these questions because we’ve read the signs, seen the people snapping the pictures. We can’t get outside the aura. We’re part of the aura. We’re here. We’re now.’ He seemed immensely pleased by this.”
Don DeLillo, White Noise
1:18 pm • 26 May 2012
“The folk tradition in action: finding new uses for things by selecting the parts that move you and discarding the rest. […] User-made content is the new folk art.”
— David Shields, Reality Hunger
5:49 pm • 6 May 2012 • 1 note
“Facebook and MySpace are crude personal essay machines. […] Millions of little advertisements for the self. […] In this new landscape, everyone gets a channel.”
— David Shields, Reality Hunger
5:46 pm • 6 May 2012
“It’s exciting to deface things that we live among, whether what’s defaced is an Otis Redding record or a brick wall.”
— David Shields, Reality Hunger
5:44 pm • 6 May 2012 • 1 note
“Social media drives home the notion that no “need” is not social at its root — no need is private and inherent.”
— Rob Horning
(Source: thenewinquiry.com)
12:28 pm • 3 May 2012
“A pastry first made when all foods were prepared at home inevitably becomes something very different when it alone is home-made, though exactly the recipe be used. To cling to the recipe then requires, or perhaps produces, a new point of view toward the pastry. But even without so drastic a change in circumstances, the recipe and its use will prove to have a history. […] Eventually, if the tradition was genuinely alive, some cook found that the recipe itself could be improved upon in the changed conditions. As she did so, she was not abandoning the tradition but rather keeping it alive by letting it grow and develop.”
— Marshall G.S. Hodgson, The Venture of Islam, Vol. 1
11:10 am • 25 April 2012 • 1 note
saturday ROFLcon events I’m going to
this is going to be so fucking frustrating
- LOLITICS: MEMES AND POLITICS 11 - 11:30 AM
- THE GIFS THAT KEEP ON GIFING 1:30 - 2 PM
- ADVENTURES IN ACA-MEME-IA 3 - 3:30 PM
- BECOMES AN ADVICE ANIMAL; TALKS ABOUT IT 4:30 - 5 PM
- DEFENDING THE INTERNET 6 - 6:30
3:27 pm • 24 April 2012
