http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/2010/01/05/small-is-beautiful-a-discussion-with-aaaarg-architect-sean-dockray/ One of my favorite websites is the semi-obscure digital library known as AAAARG (don’t even try googling. You just get pirate-themed sites). The site is a sundry collection of critical documents – many of them highly treasured theoretical classics, others obscure anarchic tomes and legal texts – presented in a simple, sleek alphabetized index of .pdfs.

The idea from the beginning was that AAAARG’s collection would grow organically, since anyone can upload a text to the site. But what takes this beyond basic p2p sharing is the way the index relates to the site’s other peer features:… ]]> Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:08:00 -0700 http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/2010/01/05/small-is-beautiful-a-discussion-with-aaaarg-architect-sean-dockray/ http://a.aaaarg.org/text/4423/origin-work-art In his article, Heidegger explains the essence of art in terms of the concepts of being and truth. He argues that art is not only a way of expressing the element of truth in a culture, but the means of creating it and providing a springboard from which "that which is" can be revealed. Works of art are not merely representations of the way things are, but actually produce a community's shared understanding. Each time a new artwork is added to any culture, the meaning of what it is to exist is inherently changed. ]]> Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:35:00 -0700 http://a.aaaarg.org/text/4423/origin-work-art http://a.aaaarg.org/text/3791/impossibility-drawing-map-empire-scale-1-1 by Umberto Eco ]]> Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:15:00 -0700 http://a.aaaarg.org/text/3791/impossibility-drawing-map-empire-scale-1-1