August 2009
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Sylvère Lotringer Does Not Heart the Internet
French theorist Sylvère Lotringer speaks with Nina Power in the September issue of Frieze (whose website, not-so-incidentally, is the best of the art rag bunch, in my not-so-humble opinion). Early in the conversation, he addresses the Internet as a means of disseminating information and organizing people. Though not entirely so—his final point about power and control holds firmly—his assessment is...
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Mining the Web for Feelings, Not Facts →
“Translating the slippery stuff of human language into binary values will always be an imperfect science, however. … The simplest algorithms work by scanning keywords to categorize a statement as positive or negative, based on a simple binary analysis (“love” is good, “hate” is bad). But that approach fails to capture the subtleties that bring human language to life:...
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Healthcare. For Artists. Imagine.
“As national arts service organizations representing thousands of nonprofit arts organizations at the state and local level as well as serving thousands of individual artists across the country, we call on Congress to pass a health care reform bill … “
Read the entire statement issued by Americans for the Arts here.
The LA Times’ Christopher Knight responds:
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Borges' Library of Babel REVEALED →
Writing for The Rumpus, Super Sleuth Grant Munroe tracks down the individual titles that Borges chose for The Library of Babel, his 33-volume anthology of speculative fiction first published in 1979. (Redux, here.) My kind of project!
+ Searching the Library of Babel (The Rumpus)
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