Look! A kitten! At Motto!
(Assumes David Shrigley-esque voice). Things that are popular on the internet:
1. Naked attractive people.
2. Cute kittens, jumping.
3. Opportunities to call strangers "asshole" and "douchebag".
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89,374. The sort of things that Momus writes about on his blog, like arty bookshops in Berlin.
As a matter of fact I was planning to write today ( Read more... )
1. Naked attractive people.
2. Cute kittens, jumping.
3. Opportunities to call strangers "asshole" and "douchebag".
....
89,374. The sort of things that Momus writes about on his blog, like arty bookshops in Berlin.
As a matter of fact I was planning to write today ( Read more... )
Actually, I just figured out the connection between the internet's two greatest obsessions, kittens and Hitler. They are, as Art Spiegelman pointed out, basically the same thing.
The difference between "cute" and "evil" is just a matter of scale.
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"Kittler's central project is to "prove to the human sciences [...] their technological-media a priori", or in his own words: "Driving the spirit out of the humanities", a title that he gave a work that he published in 1980. Kittler sees an autonomy in technology and therefore disagrees with Marshall McLuhan's reading of the media as "extensions of man": "Media are not pseudopods for extending the human body. They follow the logic of escalation that leaves us and written history behind it."
"Consequently, he sees in writing literature, in writing programmes and in burning structures into silicon chips a complete continuum: "As we know and simply do not say, no human being writes anymore. [...] Today, human writing runs through inscriptions burnt into silicon by electronic lithography [...]. The last historic act of writing may thus have been in the late seventies when a team of Intel engineers [plotted] the hardware architecture of their first integrated microprocessor."
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langton%27s_ant
(Holger Pooten)
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