Notre Dame on Good Friday

April 19, 2019

Design

...re Dame Cathedral went up in flames this week I thought immediately of the book I’ve been reading in the evenings for the past few weeks, J.W. Mackail’s Life of William Morris. Morris was obsessed with Medieval architecture and visited Notre Dame and many other French churches on a trip in 1855. Later in his life Morris founded the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (which still exists) as a response to the poorly considered renovatio...

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Saturday Tweets: Too Many Links

Mr. Homegrown

April 20, 2019

Saturday Linkages

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...chow (@GardenForkTV) April 15, 2019 The best blog on the internet is now a book: https://t.co/4SROqUmtsg — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 15, 2019 Here’s Japan’s most famous minimalist https://t.co/wifBJIIVIG — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 14, 2019 “growing evidence of the terrible impact traffic air pollution has on young kids.” @MayorOfLA, we urgently need bus lanes, bike lanes, and congestion pricing. #EnvironmentalJustice https://t.co/1hbe...

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Saturday Tweets: Culture as Subculture

Mr. Homegrown

May 25, 2019

Saturday Linkages

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...played a critical role in the birth of #Chaos theory. Astonishing story about underlooked #WomenInSTEM. Thanks to @QuantaMagazine for bringing this to light. Hope it’s headed for a movie https://t.co/BHbDeCH8Uy — Margaret Wertheim (@margaretwerth) May 20, 2019 According to the book Kebra Nagast the Ark of the Covenant given to Moses by God, was bought to #Ethiopia by Menelik I 10th c. BC. #Tabot is the Tablet onto which the Ten Commandments were...

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Flipped Out: The End of the American Bungalow

Mr. Homegrown

June 24, 2019

Design

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...reminds me of Natasha Dow Schüll description of casino architecture in her book Addition by Design. Schüll says, Gilles Deleuze proposed in the 1990s that discipline, formerly the dominant mode of power in Western Societies, had been modified and to some degree overtaken by a logic of “control” that worked not by confinement or restriction of movement, but by the regulation of continuous, mobile flows–of capital, information, bodies and affects. U...

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039 Climate Change and Be-cycling With Peter Kalmus

Mr. Homegrown

February 25, 2015

Podcasts

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...er through his be-cycling website. You can also download an excerpt of his book-in-progress (pdf) and see slides from one of his talks (pdf). If you want to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to [email protected]. You can subscribe to our podcast in the iTunes store and on Stitcher. The theme music is by Dr. Frankenstein. Additional music by Rho. A downloadable version of this podcast is her...

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