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In April, Bradford had decided that each household should be assigned its own plot to cultivate, with the understanding that each family kept whatever it grew. The change in attitude was stunning. Families were now willing to work much
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“Unless we treasure something beyond our own bare experience, we cannot distinguish gazing at a mighty river from gazing at the TV channels changing one to the other, over and over again.”
― Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
― Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
“In this spirit, one key methodological guideline would be: if you want to understand contemporary media technological culture, look at its science and military contexts, instead of the content of what is consumed as entertainment media.”
― What is Media Archaeology?
― What is Media Archaeology?
“We need to ask ourselves: how do we keep such a transdisciplinary spirit of curiosity and intellectual radicality alive and updated in a situation in which university degrees are being reduced to only being ‘qualifications’ for particular jobs?”
― What is Media Archaeology?
― What is Media Archaeology?
“Eyes are no more the soul mirror of a person; on the contrary the computer or the hard disk are.”
― Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination
― Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination
“The aesthetic tactics and various ‘minor’ methods such as circuit bending, hardware tinkering and so forth are important links to a wider activist stance towards technical media.”
― What is Media Archaeology?
― What is Media Archaeology?
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