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Attached is a PDF showing Gabriel Tarde’s diagrams of imitative rays as illustrated in Tony Sampson’s book Virality. Might be interesting to mobilize against/with the other models of network diagrams from the readings.

Bringing montage to another level, this nifty tool that came out of Rhizome’s Seven on Seven conference this past Saturday let’s you “paint with video” by embedding Vines as compositional elements. Check some […]

This seemed rather interesting given the lecture. Demonstrates the politics in categorization and data visualization. […]

In case anybody actually was curious about this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5I-Xq54FT4

Google sued for data-mining students’ email

Here are the maps I was talking about in class on Tuesday. They show that in almost every city other than Detroit, African-Americans have spread out more/been less confined to particular neighborhoods, depending […]

https://www.coursera.org/course/getdata

Today in NYT:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/opinion/sunday/the-rise-of-anti-capitalism.html

Want to find audience for your writing but don’t use Facebook / don’t have a blog? No problem.

There many experiments happening on the web with new reading/writing platforms/text distribution platforms. […]

Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala, Hermeneutic Communism; Alain Badiou, The Communist Hypothesis & Boris Groys, The Communist Postscript

R is what we use in our lab, its free and most commonly used tool today, everywhere from New York Times (to explore and visualize data for their articles) to hundreds of thousands of scientists. Even if you feel […]

Politics of Interface and Obfuscation – http://eyebeam.org/events/the-politics-of-interface-and-obfuscation