Bookmarks for 2012-11-15

Geometries of Utopian Desire | Notes on Metamodernism
"The triangular figure that hangs in the night sky in each of these images, a digital cutout of the aurora borealis, is echoed in the equilateral segments of the domed architecture beneath. As a kind of occult ritualistic symbol, the triangle motif here seems to signify the return to a faith in the more primitive geometries of a bygone Euclidean age; one in which truth and beauty appeared one and the same, linear and attainable, yet mystical in their absoluteness."
(tags:art architecture pol )
wearespartacus.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/The-Peoples-Review-of-the-Work-Capability-Assessment.pdf
"The People's Review is presented in order to show the reality

of going through the Work Capability Assessment

for those who are living with sickness and disability every day."
(tags:pol social )
Rhizome | Drone’s Eye View: A Look at How Artists are Revealing the Killing Fields
“the drone also, for me, stands in part for the network itself: an invisible, inherently connected technology allowing sight and action at a distance. Us and the digital, acting together, a medium and an exchange. But the non-human components of the network are not moral actors, and the same technology that permits civilian technological wonder, the wide-eyed futurism of the New Aesthetic and the unevenly-distributed joy of living now, also produces obscurantist “security” culture, ubiquitous surveillance, and robotic killing machines."
(tags:drones war gz )
Meaning: Plausible Utopias | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution

(tags:talks eco )
First Teleportation From One Macroscopic Object to Another | MIT Technology Review
"…practical quantum routers and the quantum internet that relies on them are just around the corner."
(tags:sci comms )