Eduardo Morais'The Joke’s on You www.thebaffler.com/articles @instapaper
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TwitterLove People, Not Pleasure www.nytimes.com/2014 @instapaper
The American Nonconformist in the Age of the Commercialization of Dissent www.thebaffler.com/salvos @instapaper
The End of ‘Genius’ — www.nytimes.com/ www.nytimes.com/2014 @instapaper
Vernacular Criticism thenewinquiry.com/essays @instapaper
An Auteur Is Not a Brand : The New Yorker www.newyorker.com/culture @instapaper
The curtains are drawn. Some light comes through, casting a small glow on the top left of the air conditioner. It’s daytime. The wall is an undecorated slab of beige. That is the American room.
The American Room is a terrific article in which Paul Ford presents an analysis of US homes and suburbs starting from a study of the rooms found in the background of so many YouTube videos.
I can’t quite place it but I once heard someone claiming that one of the world’s biggest libraries of pornographic film belonged to this US university’s Furniture Design department, allegedly because porn would be a reliable historical record of cheap furniture — a bit like this blog [probably sued out of existence by IKEA’s lawyers hence the Buzzfeed link]. (I tried to search for the library but I found it ungoogleable.)
Reading The American Room also reminds me of Dutch artist Martijn Hendricks' works, such as the This is Where We’ll Do It series in which he removes elements from the foreground of YouTube videos.
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The Impossibility of Growth | George Monbiot www.monbiot.com/2014 @instapaper
The Original Factory Education Was a Personalized Learning Experiment hapgood.us/2014 @instapaper
Attention, my architect friends: Photoshop fails in city planning — medium.com/@moonshinedesi…
Clayton Christensen and disruptive innovation: Is the concept a myth? www.slate.com/articles @instapaper
Jill Lepore: What the Theory of “Disruptive Innovation” Gets Wrong : The New Yorker www.newyorker.com/magazine @instapaper
Full Time: Fading Images of the World Cup « grantland.com/the-triangle/f…
5 Simple Notions that Help Solve Problems www.farnamstreetblog.com/2014 @instapaper
Paris Review — The Art of Screenwriting No. 4, Matthew Weiner www.theparisreview.org/interviews @instapaper
No Money, No Time — www.nytimes.com/ j.mp/1qPEeeD @instapaper
George Solt, Ramen Historian : The New Yorker www.newyorker.com/online @instapaper
Absolute Zero is 0K • Damn Interesting www.damninteresting.com/absolute-zero-is-0k @instapaper