January 2012
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“Long before Beethoven sat before a piano… …someone with twice his musical...”
– New Rules for the New Economy (via azspot).
This quote is really interesting, because it blends a sort of futurist optimism with a total misunderstanding of how art works. There’s no reason to think that a great filmmaker existed before film. Isn’t the existence of the medium the thing...
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important retraction / note on camp
agrammar:
The first time I wrote about Lana Del Rey, in a column, a few months back, I said I was pleased that when she invoked the name “Lolita,” she actually seemed to be talking about something like the character in the novel, and not whatever strange mincing porny thing people use that name to refer to today.
Now, having heard her song “Lolita,” I would like to apologize and mostly retract...
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“Anonymous’ previous attacks had what political power they had because they...”
– The Evil New Tactic Behind Anonymous’ Massive Megaupload Revenge Attack.
I think this Gawker writer might be the ONLY person who didn’t know what they were doing. Clicking on the twitter search link that the story provides will demonstrate that almost EVERY SINGLE PERSON who re-tweeted...
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“The truth is that Congress is the one who could fix this by actually fixing...”
– Supreme Court Chooses SOPA/PIPA Protest Day To Give A Giant Middle Finger To The Public Domain | Techdirt.
It’s a great quote. And it encapsulates the major problem with expecting the court to fix copyright. It’s just plain NOT THEIR JOB. We need to use our SOPA-protest-like mechanisms...
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