Coming from the perspective of visual communication, I wonder. What is it they are trying to communicate? A kind of crude parody of Cartesian dualism perhaps?
February 3, 2012
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makes the bodily presence of the speakers seem rather awkward doesn’t it
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There’s a whole realm of the geek imaginery devoted to the decoupling of the body and the mind… the idea of being able to download a brain…
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Not sure what makes you think it is shriveled? It looks fairly normal to a lay person like me.
by beernutz - February 3, 2012 10:43 PM
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To call it a shriveled brain is imprecise I guess: it’s more like this brain, like all brains, sort of resembles shriveled fruits… just to stress that a brain by itself looks rather awkward…
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Regardless of the awkward visual communication, it’s still been pretty impressive to attend the FOSDEM conference. With software technology so pervasive in our daily lives it’s weird that this movement of free software / open source exists outside the mainstream imagination… That the cultural field is blissfully unaware of this movement… software technology is to difficult, left to ‘geeks’…
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Note that the organisers themselves speak of “5000+ GEEKS”. The love between the programmers and the mainstream will have to be mutual
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Note that the organisers themselves speak of “5000+ GEEKS”. The love between the programmers and the mainstream will have to be mutual
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Cf Jon Stewart, Dramatic Chipmunk call out congressional nerd bashing: a montage of US senators dismissing questions on the controversial SOPA bill which they support by saying: I am not a nerd.
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