Communities are defined by their peripheries when they have no center or multiple centers. The edge case is the border between inside and outside. Even within, your distance from the center and the edge constitutes a geometry of potential otherness and potential identity. A sun, a planet, a land, a state, a town. It's the … Continue reading Creation Cattywampus
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The Rating Rabbit Hole
Note: This was written in August of 2015, before cafebedouin.org existed. I rediscovered it recently and thought the point is still a valid one and worth sharing. tl;dr: Algorithms have a bias toward the status quo and present a threat to our cultural production. (2,600 words) Shortly after the start of the Afghanistan war, Osama … Continue reading The Rating Rabbit Hole
