I'm convinced that the internet has erased all meaning from the word "pretentious." It once meant exactly what it sounds like, pretending to be something other than what you are. This film, along with all non-standard films, has evoked countless online accusations of pretense, which in the...
theory in a postmodernist, non-naturalist mode and in the utopian tradition of imagining a world without gender, which is perhaps a world without genesis, but maybe also a world without end. The cyborg incarnation is outside salvation history. Nor does it mark time on an oedipal calendar, at...
Freee have updated the manifesto simply by changing the odd word here and there and sometimes by adding whole sections to change the meaning and politics of the original to suit a radical critique of the current world order. The manifesto was launched at the ICA exactly 100 years after the ...
For example, retellings of the stom~ of the indigenous woman Malinche, mother of the mesdzo 'bastard' race of the new world, master of languages, and mistress of Cortes, carry special meaning for Chicana constructions of identity. Cherrie Moraga (1983) in Loving in the War Years explores ...
This talk about free selling and buying, and all the other "brave words" of our bourgeoisie about freedom in general, have a meaning, if any, only in contrast with restricted selling and buying, with the fettered page 51 traders of the Middle Ages, but have no meaning when opposed to ...
We pursue literature from all cultures and tribes yet know literature at its best transcends the writer’s identity. We reflect about the meaning of translating Finnish, about the implications of using Russian or Spanish, yet we understand poetry to be something beyond the confines of language. ...
I bought my first computer in 1981. It had a 300-baud modem that I used to connect to The Source, the first commercial online service. For those who may not know, baud is a technical term meaning "extremely slow." Nonetheless, I used this machine to talk to people I'd never met. ...
This future will not have limitations. Physical realities of the human body and mind will disappear, creating new avenues through which we find purpose and meaning. This is the future of computing. This is The Future Perfect. “Trying to predict the future is a discouraging, hazardous occupation...
As we move forward into the world of e-business, the customer is transforming the market from one of mass marketing to 'making meaning' -- creating personal relevance. This manifesto understands that in the eyes of the consumer, e-business is really 'Me-Business' -- my time, my place, ...
meaninghe) could make me bisexual rather than queer. I also hate the education profession, for its share in driving thousands of queer teens to suicide every year. I hate the "respectable" art world; and the entertainment industry, and the mainstream media, especiallyThe New York Times. In ...