Posts from — March 2007

Free Music Project: Creativity on Children’s Machine XO:
While we are all impressed by mini TamTam, the OLPC XO music generation software, not every child is a composer at heart. But every child can find joy, fun, creativity, and education in music.

We wanna sing & dance!
That’s the idea behind the Free Music Project, a library of the best free music the web has to offer from Freeculture.org:
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well this is a plus…

Link Dump:
A few pointers to work on little-known, -recognized, and/or -understood aspects of whatever we’re doing when we’re not necessarily reading but — for lack of a better way to say it — just generally doing things with stories that whose endings might come sooner or later than we want them to (but never, it seems, right on time):

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in this post diane mentions two books on memory that might be interesting to look at in the future…

Décès de Jean Baudrillard, pourfendeur de la société de consommation et des médias:
Décès de Jean Baudrillard, pourfendeur de la société de consommation et des médias

Jean Baudrillard • DR

Le sociologue et philosophe est décédé mardi à Paris, à l’âge de 77 ans •

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two online encyclopedia entries about baudrillard:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baudrillard
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/baudrillard/

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Other obituaries:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/07/books/07baudrillard.html

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http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3382,36-879957@51-879918,0.html

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http://www.repubblica.it/2007/03/sezioni/spettacoli_e_cultura/volpi-baudrillard/volpi-baudrillard/volpi-baudrillard.html

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Some responses from my friends, colleagues and people i read in the blogosphere:

Jean Baudrillard, RIP
Noted French philosopher Jean Baudrillard dies
RIP Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard 20th June 1929 – 6th March 2007
baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard, sociologue et philosophe (1929-2007)
Baudrillard writes his own epitaph.
This post does not exist. (RIP Jean Baudrillard)
Jean Baudrillard: Rest In Peace
The death of reality
Baudrillard is Dead
Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007)
Jean Baudrillard, 1929-2007
R.I.P. Jean Baudrillard
Baudrillard Dies
Simulacrummy.
Farewell, Jean Baudrillard! I loved…
Baudrillard’s passing
Baudrillard Is Dead
losing another “abstruse” french theorist
Jean is dead 15/40
Encountering the Real
Jean Baudrillard’s Death Did Not Take Place

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yes i read too many blogs, but that’s life..

It is in relation to baudrillard that i have pursued some of my obscure interests… like pataphysics, oulipo, the origins of structuralism. He is why I work in semiology and discourse analysis, beyond the fact that… so do my friends and colleagues. he’s a major figure in my history, and the focus of one of my independent studies in graduate school.

tonight i heard the joyous words that a student reported learning more in my class at pratt than the others together. that…. a student learns… that is the goal, that the other students learn is also of merit, but not everyone can express, at the same time, their view. I like to think that i teach on a 5 year idea… i give you ideas, methods, and tools that today are seemingly meaningless, or perhaps even abhorrent, transgressive, or otherwise nulled, but… in time, these ideas seed growth and interest, which might beget… fruit.

Largest library closure in U.S. looms / Federal funding dries up, leaving 15 branches in Oregon county on brink:
Largest library closure in U.S. looms
Federal funding dries up, leaving 15 branches in Oregon county on brink

Meredith May, Chronicle Staff Writer
Sunday, March 4, 2007

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the death of libraries looms.

Quote of the Day:
“In times of change learners inherit the earth, while
the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world
that no longer exists.“–Eric Hoffer
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one of the best ones yet.

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Interesting tool

Human Scale Video Games | Fresh Creation:
Human Scale Video Games

from Old Skool Weblog Post.

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yep… someone had to do it.

BRISTOL / BRONX INTERNET YOUTH A/V PERFORMANCE.

SATURDAY 3RD MARCH – 5.15 – 6.00 PM GMT (12.15 – 1 PM EST )

In partnership with Basement Studio, Bristol and The Point Youth Centre, New York. Furthernoise.org present audio visual performances by young people mixing images and sounds live from both cities on the internet using the multiuser A/V platform VisitorsStudio.

The first of it’s kind, the performances are the culmination of workshops held over 4 weekends where 12 young people aged 16 – 20 in both cities have met each other on the internet to create images & sounds based on themes they have developed together over the course of the workshops.

The performances will start at 5.15 GMT (12.15 – 1 pm EST ) sharp and will be available for anyone to view on their computer.

Note: Flash 8 plug needs to be installed.

To log on and view the performances go to http://www.visitorsstudio.org

For regular updates about visitorsstudio visit: http://blog.visitorsstudio.org

Reviews and features – http://www.furthernoise.org

Supported by Furtherfield.org, Arts Council England, Awards For All, CAV Bristol, Watershed, Basement Studio, The Point CDC.

Freedom for IP:
Ignite Seattle Video

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this is a good presentation about intellectual freedom, the the freedom to create and innovate.