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The evolution of empathy

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Likey.

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The Carceral Archipelago

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Bentham’s panopticon is the perfect architectural manifestation of power and discipline – it can operate as a school, an asylum, a factory or a prison and allows each inhabitant to be surveilled so completely that they even start watching themselves.
Sound familiar?
Facebook’s privacy policy takes 5,830 words to tell you that they own you. This graph [...]

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FASSBINDER, HERZOG, AND THE FUTURE

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Oh, the glories of email threads. After sending a friend a link to MoMA’s recent screening of World on a Wire, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s mindblowing Euro-70’s sci-fi epic (filmed by mono.kultur favorite Michael Ballhaus), he immediately responded with Plastic Bag, a short film by Ramin Bahrani. The story of a existentially-minded plastic bag trying to [...]

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WEPAD

Monday, April 12, 2010

Although rumour has it that an American jounalist destroyed an iPad after more than 90 (!) hours of non-stop-use, our friends from Cupertino sold so many hundredthousands. They will somewhat be rivalled by a Berlin-based company offering the WePad who state that their device will have useful connections, like the good old USB! [...]

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MAKE SOME MONEY

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Sir Richard Branson, Chief Executive Everything of the Virgin Group donated the first ten flights of his recent project Virgin Galactic to mono.kultur to raise some proper sponsoring money. Galactic Money, or Virgin Sponsoring.
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Augmented reality for a better life

Thursday, April 1, 2010

A while back I posted a video showing a vision of ‘augmented reality’, in which ordinary people can earn money by allowing themselves to be immersed in advertising material.

But as compelling as dystopian fantasies can be, it is wonderful to see technology put to anti-commercial uses once in a while. The Artvertiser is [...]

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THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Again, it is Apple Macintosh that put goosebumps into my skin today. Because after having thought about the iPad not more then an hour or two, these guys made me do it again. The once punk-rock-on-silicium dream of being different whilst also knowing it turns out to lead into a blind alley of thoughts like I’m-nothing-without-a-soon-achieved-world-supremacy or [...]

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BRAND SPACE

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

I fell over this architecture project and hurt myself.

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YOUR SOUL VS. YOUR MONEY

Saturday, February 6, 2010

iPad. OK, might be cool, but the new wheel it certainly is not – at all. Although neither will be the rumoured Google Tablet PC, but it is hinted (alas, in German only) to be much more versatile than Apple’s iPad which is being bashed for being no more than an ultra-cool remote control for [...]

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iPad

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Some say it’s nonsense, some say it’s years too late. Others say it will be way ahead of the pack of tablets. Make yourself a key-note here. And imagine those long flights with even more films to really watch, doing real mailing whilst up and away or imagine just wanting to have it without needing [...]

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