Roberto Esposito and Jean-Luc Nancy: “Dialogue on the Philosophy to come” (2010)
What we are dealing with here is really space. For more than forty years now we have known that we are living in the epoch of space (Foucault was one of the first to tell us this in the 1960s). More often than not, this epoch of space is juxtaposed against the epoch of history [...]
NASA releases hi-res restored photographs from the Gemini Program
☛ March To The Moon: photo from the Gemini IV mission depicting astronaut Edward White during NASA’s very first EVA (Extra Vehicular Activity), June 3, 1965, 19:45 GMT, shot with a Zeiss Planar 80mm lens mounted on a Hasselblad 500c 70 mm camera on Kodak Ektachrome film. Photo ID: S65-30431_G04-H. Flash is required to access [...]
The “Strike Against SOPA & PIPA” Day
☛ Vimeo: “PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet” by Kirby Ferguson and Fight for the Future, uploaded on October 25th, 2011. Licensed under (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0). From the Fight for the Future website: The video above discusses the Senate version of the House’s Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). In the Senate the bill is [...]
Funny business at human scale: Louis CK’s “Live at the Beacon Theater”
☛ The New Yorker: illustration by Eddie Guy for the review “Man Alone. Louis C.K.’s tribute to truth” by Nancy Franklin, June 13, 2011, pp. 126-127; subscription is required to access the full article. © 2011 Condé Nast. The portrait shown above was produced by Canadian-born illustrator Eddie Guy. For more information (biography, portfolio) visit [...]
Pharmaceutical drug ads: “Zoloft Kid” by Pfizer Advertisement, 1999
☛ Bonkers Institute: “What Drives Us” Pfizer Advertisement, 1999. NOTE: “Zoloft Kid” which I use in the title of this post is not the official Pfizer title for this add: it’s the title use by Ben Hansen on his website. Recently, Marcia Angell from The New York Review of Books shed some light on the [...]
