Air Crosswalk by Art Lebedev
Triple Canopy takes us on a tour of the new Young Earth museum in Kentucky, which features humans and dinosaurs living comfortably in proximity.
Larval Subjects gives an excellent explanation of the meaning of the borromean knot in Lacan’s work.
In a post on “Lincoln and the Mud-sill”, Greg Afinogenov of Slawkenbergius’s Tales asks a question that isn’t asked nearly enough, “When we think we are deterritorializing, maybe we are only reproducing a cycle?”
In a post titled “On Zizek and Consequences” Planomenology responds to Adam Kirsch’s recent, controversial article for The New Republic.
In yet another chapter of the story of how stories are dying, the London Telegraph finds narrative very much alive in new media forms like Grand Theft Auto, Twitter, and interactive learning programs.
Feminist Philosophers calls for papers for the “The Palin Factor” edited collection. (Be sure to check out our own calendar for conferences, deadlines, and calls for papers.)
Yochai Benkler presents “Two (Radical?) Thoughts on Infrastructure” that couldn’t be implemented soon enough.
Adam Kotsko of An und für sich posts a talk on “The Prehistory of Jean-Luc Nancy’s Deconstruction of Christianity”, to which I hope to respond in the near future.
Philosopher Jürgen Habermas discusses “Life after bankruptcy” with Thomas Assheuer of Sign and Sight.
In an article first published in Libération on 19 November, Giorgio Agamben reminds us “today, numerous European countries (in particular France and Italy), have introduced laws and police measures that we would previously have judged barbaric and anti-democratic, and that these are no less extreme than those put into effect in Italy under fascism.”
David Cassuto of the Animal Blawg succinctly describes the annual “turkey pardon” as a ritual that “amounts to transferring the guilt of the perpetrators on to the victims and then forgiving a token few of them in a bizarre act of self-absolution by proxy.”
“Is Urban Loneliness a Myth?”, New York Magazine asks (before answering “Yes”).
The New Yorker profiles Naomi Klein as the beacon of the “new new left”.
In the midst of all the uproar over the Human Terrain System, Maximilian Forte of Open Anthropology reminds us of Canada’s own “white situational awareness teams”.
Lawrence Lessig gives an interesting political talk on Web 2.0.
Dan Goldman of Adobe walks us through a forthcoming user-friendly method for interactive video object manipulation.
Mona N. expresses annoyance and perplexion over the whole OpenID project.
James Evans, a sociologist at the University of Chicago, analyzed a database of 34 million articles in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, and found that the turn to online research has narrowed the range of modern scholarship.
Sarah shows how to use LinkedIn to get a job in this awful economy.
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(The Air Crosswalk, featured in the photo above, is a public safety innovation recently introduced by the Art Lebedev design studio. The giant overhead lights mimic the zebra crosswalk pattern, helping drivers see pedestrians more easily. The first Air Crosswalk will be installed in Tumen, Russia in 2009.)
