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Sun, 03 Mar 2013 14:13:54 +1100

Presentation.io lets other people watch your slideshow in-real time through an Internet browser

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:10:11 +1100

Presentation.io lets other people watch your slideshow in-real time through an Internet browser:

CanvasDropr, a visual collaboration platform of the same name, has officially launched Presentation.io today, a new web-based service that gives anyone the ability to broadcast a slideshow …

sketchlock: covertwallace: cognitivedissonance: leonineantiher...

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:58:13 +1100

sketchlock:

covertwallace:

cognitivedissonance:

leonineantiheroine:

nova-bright:

yellowcars:

Men Can Stop Rape’s new College Bystander Intervention campaign.

Actual good anti-rape campaign posters! They don’t shame victims, they ask people to examine their own actions and inactions and protect their friends. And not in a gross excuse for chivalry either, just as people keeping people safe.

I like this.

Yep I agree. I also like how it’s not tying a man taking action around rape to some imaginary alpha male/hypermasculine sort of thing. Like a real man would do such and such.

Hey look! It’s an anti-rape campaign based on being a decent human being! In all seriousness, this is marvelous. I bolded the above for emphasis.

hey look it’s that thing I automatically reblog

Hey look, it’s people taking care of people!

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Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:01:03 +1100

npr: datanews: WNYC’s Data News Team mined the city’s dog...

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 23:49:29 +1100

npr:

datanews:

WNYC’s Data News Team mined the city’s dog license database to map, list and make a game out of the Dogs of NYC.

Max is the most popular dog name in New York City. Also, make sure you check out the dog name and breed t-shirt generator. -Heidi

npr: goodtypography: ‘dog as fonts’ by grafisches...

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 23:48:54 +1100

npr:

goodtypography:

‘dog as fonts’ by grafisches büro

Happy Wednesday! -L

theatlantic: How America’s Top Colleges Reflect (and Massively...

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 23:45:37 +1100

theatlantic:

How America’s Top Colleges Reflect (and Massively Distort) the Country’s Racial Evolution

[Images: National Center for Education Statistics]

popculturebrain: ‘Mad Men’ Season Six Promo Pics | Hitfix

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 23:43:04 +1100

popculturebrain:

‘Mad Men’ Season Six Promo Pics | Hitfix

popculturebrain: First Official Image From Jeff Wadlow’s...

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 23:38:57 +1100

popculturebrain:

First Official Image From Jeff Wadlow’s ‘KICK-ASS 2’ featuring Jim Carrey | CBM

smashedbear: itmakesnosense: Taxidermied squirrel with a...

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 06:25:46 +1100

smashedbear:

itmakesnosense:

Taxidermied squirrel with a cowboy hat riding a rattlesnake

via adrifts | guillher

This is the greatest thing I’ve seen

paulscheer: The best Foreign Poster

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:02:00 +1100

paulscheer:

The best Foreign Poster

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Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:00:54 +1100

jamesadomian: This is the ending to my all-time favorite...

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 23:58:56 +1100

jamesadomian:

This is the ending to my all-time favorite episode of California’s Gold, where Huell explores the legendary firefall of Yosemite. It may be my favorite ending to anything ever on TV.

(Starts around 1:30. Poor quality transfer but it’s all I could find.)

Rest in peace, Huell Howser.

Beautiful, and you’re awesome JA

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Tue, 08 Jan 2013 23:54:34 +1100

Aidan Turner and Dean O’Gorman - The Hobbit New York...

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 23:51:40 +1100

Aidan Turner and Dean O’Gorman - The Hobbit New York Premiere

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"In the last few years, a small, culturally conservative academic journal has gained public attention..."

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 10:31:40 +1100

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In the last few years, a small, culturally conservative academic journal has gained public attention by showcasing difficult sentences written by intellectuals in the academy. The journal, Philosophy and Literature, has offered itself as the arbiter of good prose and accused some of us of bad writing by awarding us “prizes.” (I’m still waiting for my check!)

The targets, however, have been restricted to scholars on the left whose work focuses on topics like sexuality, race, nationalism and the workings of capitalism — a point the news media ignored. Still, the whole exercise hints at a serious question about the relation of language and politics: why are some of the most trenchant social criticisms often expressed through difficult and demanding language?

No doubt, scholars in the humanities should be able to clarify how their work informs and illuminates everyday life. Equally, however, such scholars are obliged to question common sense, interrogate its tacit presumptions and provoke new ways of looking at a familiar world.

Many quite nefarious ideologies pass for common sense. For decades of American history, it was “common sense” in some quarters for white people to own slaves and for women not to vote. Common sense, moreover, is not always “common” — the idea that lesbians and gay men should be protected against discrimination and violence strikes some people as common-sensical, but for others it threatens the foundations of ordinary life.

If common sense sometimes preserves the social status quo, and that status quo sometimes treats unjust social hierarchies as natural, it makes good sense on such occasions to find ways of challenging common sense. Language that takes up this challenge can help point the way to a more socially just world. The contemporary tradition of critical theory in the academy, derived in part from the Frankfurt School of German anti-fascist philosophers and social critics, has shown how language plays an important role in shaping and altering our common or “natural” understanding of social and political realities.

The philosopher Theodor W. Adorno, who maintained that nothing radical could come of common sense, wrote sentences that made his readers pause and reflect on the power of language to shape the world. A sentence of his such as “Man is the ideology of dehumanization” is hardly transparent in its meaning. Adorno maintained that the way the word “man” was used by some of his contemporaries was dehumanizing.

Taken out of context, the sentence may seem vainly paradoxical. But it becomes clear when we recognize that in Adorno’s time the word “man” was used by humanists to regard the individual in isolation from his or her social context. For Adorno, to be deprived of one’s social context was precisely to suffer dehumanization. Thus, “man” is the ideology of dehumanization.

Herbert Marcuse once described the way philosophers who champion common sense scold those who propagate a more radical perspective: “The intellectual is called on the carpet… . Don’t you conceal something? You talk a language which is suspect. You don’t talk like the rest of us, like the man in the street, but rather like a foreigner who does not belong here. We have to cut you down to size, expose your tricks, purge you.”

The accused then responds that “if what he says could be said in terms of ordinary language he would probably have done so in the first place.” Understanding what the critical intellectual has to say, Marcuse goes on, “presupposes the collapse and invalidation of precisely that universe of discourse and behavior into which you want to translate it.”

Of course, translations are sometimes crucial, especially when scholars teach. A student for whom a word such as “hegemony” appears strange might find that it denotes a dominance so entrenched that we take it for granted, and even appear to consent to it — a power that’s strengthened by its invisibility.

One may have doubts that “hegemony” is needed to describe how power haunts the common-sense world, or one may believe that students have nothing to learn from European social theory in the present academy. But then we are no longer debating the question of good and bad writing, or of whether “hegemony” is an unlovely word. Rather, we have an intellectual disagreement about what kind of world we want to live in, and what intellectual resources we must preserve as we make our way toward the politically new.

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- Judith Butler in the NYT in 1999 on “bad writing” - ie, criticisms of academic language as being incomprehensible, a complaint that seems to only ever be levelled at the humanities, and never the sciences. (via getontheaeroplane)

nonlawyerylawyer: thelingerieaddict: Dropping truth bombs like...

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 10:23:26 +1100

nonlawyerylawyer:

thelingerieaddict:

Dropping truth bombs like they’re nothing.

After this, I got take a break from Tumblr, y’all.

daintyblackpegasus:

blackgirlsrpretty2:

I don’t know what most white people in this country feel but I can only include what they feel from the state of their institutions. James Baldwin on The Dick Cavett Show [X]

^^^^!!!!!!!!

I will reblog this every single time it crosses my dash without fail because this is at the heart of basically any discussion about racism that I will ever have.

james baldwin and his writing and the integrity which he lived his life shaped so much of my teens and how i view the world even though i shared so little in life experience with him. i would say he is the reason for my leftism without a doubt. everyone should read giovanni’s room at least once in their lives.

nonlawyerylawyer: allcreatures: Australian sealion photo...

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 01:06:14 +1100

nonlawyerylawyer:

allcreatures:

Australian sealion photo gallery by Michael Patrick O’Neill

i want one

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Fri, 07 Dec 2012 20:20:07 +1100

“Phil’s-Osophy!”

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 20:18:48 +1100

“Phil’s-Osophy!”