March 2012
16 posts
February 2012
43 posts
An open letter to Sam Falls
I give up. I won’t try resisting anymore. I can now admit, you are great.
a classic example of the prisoner's dilemma
Two men are arrested, but the police do not possess enough information for a conviction. Following the separation of the two men, the police offer both a similar deal—if one testifies against his partner (defects/betrays), and the other remains silent (cooperates/assists), the betrayer goes free and the cooperator receives the full one-year sentence. If both remain silent, both are sentenced to...
the stability, the equilibrium, will only happen if everyone involved behave selfishly. Because if they cooperate, then the results become unpredictable and dangerous.
the rules of "so long sucker"
Starting a game: Each player takes 7 chips of one color (Cards of one suit from a deck work equally well).
No two players may start with the same color chips.
Someone is randomly selected as the first player to move.
This player places a chip onto the playing area, and selects anyone to be the next person to move.
Playing the game: Move by playing a chip of any color onto the playing area...
Things I underlined from Hito Steyerl’s The Spam of the Earth: Withdrawal from Representation.
From the perspective of image spam, people are improvable, or, as Hagel put it, perfectible. They are imagined to be potentially “flawless”[.]
Image spam might tell us a lot about “ideal” humans, but not by showing actual humans: quite the contrary.
Image spam is...
“[BETSEY STEVENSON and Justin Wolfers] outsource[d] domestic chores. Today, they have a nanny and someone who drives them to work, cooks and does other chores. They use their extra time to do work that helps pay for all this.”
“As ownership of fine art approaches the pinnacle of high-net-worth aspiration...”
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Sometimes I think that writing press releases like this one is art. (via felixsalmon)
