Posts Tagged ‘ knowledge ’

The forest of things and signs

Apr 14th, 2010 | By editor | Category: Life in a petri dish

TweetShare I know nothing. And it’s sometimes hard to take, sometimes hard to admit, especially to another. Of course what makes this even worse is knowing that you know nothing. I love the idea that ignorance is bliss yet I can’t bring myself around to agree with it. I can’t pretend I’d like to be [...]



Spoonfed culture

Mar 3rd, 2010 | By editor | Category: Featured articles

Let’s make this clear. No ambiguity. Culture has been appropriated and compartmentalised and departmentalised and soon that is all we’ll know. Before long culture will become a facsimile of itself – our knowledge will only extend to what we’re sold, spoonfed. Independent thought will become so marginalised that it will become ineffectual – it will longer play a role in our cultural development and makers who refuse to co-operate will be relentlessly driven to the margins, to the badlands. Unseen, unheard, unimportant.