Mayan Glyphs

i've become fascinated in mayan glyphs.
just an amazing graphical system.
cracking the maya code

Seed Magazine

Some interesting presentations here

Henry Markram, Greg Lynn, Natalie Jeremijenko, etc.

Situated Advocacy

The book I worked on with Benjamin Bratton + Natalie Jeremijenko has been released and can be downloaded as a PDF here.

This would be funny if it wasn't so damn true...

As my roommate and fellow SCI_Arc grad Ji observed:

There is a considerate difference between our class and the current thesis class. When we were finishing up school, the big decision was whether to try for a design-oriented firm and sacrifice a good salary or go with a more conventional architecture firm and get paid a decent wage. Now, with the economy the way it is, the thesis students are thinking: well, I guess I will just have to start my own firm straight away...

...and take a weekend job at Fry's to make ends meet.

(Maybe there is a silver lining in all this)

Death Note

I've really been enjoying this show.
Very dark, but strangely "satisfying"

death note on hulu

More from Zizek

Pseudo-naturalized ethnico-religious conflicts are the form of struggle which fits global capitalism: in our age of 'post-politics', when politics proper is progressively replaced by expert social administration, the only remaining legitimate source of conflict is cultural (ethnic, religious) tension. Today's rise of 'irrational' violence should therefore be conceived as strictly correlative to the depoliticization of our societies, that is, to the disappearance of the proper political dimension, its translation into different levels of 'administration' of social affairs: violence is accounted for in terms of social interest, and so on, and the unaccountable remainder cannot but appear to be 'irrational'... The proper Hegelian dialectic reversal is crucial here: what looks at first like the multitude of 'remainders of the past' which should be gradually overcome with the growth of a tolerant multiculturalist liberal order is all of a sudden, in a flash of insight, perceived as this liberal order's very mode of existence - in short, teleological temporal sucession is unmasked as structural contemporaneity. (In exactly the same way, what, in the realm of 'really existing socialism', looked like petty-bourgeois 'remainders of the past', that eternal excuse for all the failures of socialist regimes, was the inherent product of the regime itself.)

Welcome to the Desert of the Real, pp 133-2

2 years and $60k later...

My academic portfolio can now be viewed online:
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