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[monochrom] A Language Dies - So How Do You Relearn It?

How would you go about learning a language that nobody speaks? It depends. A well-documented language would have a dictionary, grammar book, a body of literature (such as folk tales or religious texts), and, in some cases, videos and recordings that a dedicated student could learn from... <

[monochrom] What Makes a Miracle: Some myths about the rise of China and India

After more than a century of relative stagnation, the economies of India and China have been growing at remarkably high rates over the past 25 years. In 1820 the two countries contributed nearly half of the world's income; by 1950, with the industrialized West having pulled away, their share

[monochrom] U2 manager says "Hippy Values" of Silicon Valley are killing the music industry

Paul McGuinness said he believed the Silicon Valley culture and its ecosystem had to undergo a cultural shift, noting the original "hippy values" of the west coast technology pioneers in the late 1970s and their internet equivalents in the late 1990s. "Embedded deep down in the brilliance of th

[monochrom] Zwei Sachen

Die Reduktion des modernen Ichs auf ein mehr oder weniger 'unrettbares' Konstrukt, einen ephemeren "Empfindungskomplex" (Ernst Mach) führt zu einem Subjektivitätskonzept, das Einheit durch Vielheit und Dauer durch Wandel ersetzt: Die "Polyphrenie" (Wolfgang Welsch) des modernen und erst recht d

[monochrom] monochrom @ Etech 2008: "Context Hacking: Some Examples of How to...

Johannes Grenzfurthner will talk @ Etech 2008: "Context Hacking: Some Examples of How to Mess with Art, the Media System, Law and the Market". March 5, 2008; San Diego Link -- Posted By johannes to

[monochrom] monochrom @ SXSW: GUERRILLA.COM

Johannes Grenzfurthner (monochrom) will talk about guerrilla communication @ SXSW Interative. The term guerrilla communication refers to unconventional forms of communication and/or intervention in more conventional processes of communication. Communication gue

[monochrom] monochrom @ Plutopia! SXSW

monochrom will be part of "Plutopia! the 8th Annual SXSW Interactive Tech Gathering of the Tribes", a SXSWi multifaceted extravaganza at Scholz Garten Emphasizing Convergence, Sustainability, Futurism and Art. [...] you won't want to miss the world premier of the first ever surrealistic vaudevi

[monochrom] Anthropocene: Geologists claim old epoch has ended

Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams at the University of Leicester, along with their colleagues on the Stratigraphy Commission of the Geological Society of London, have presented research suggesting that humans have changed the Earth to such an extent that we have brought about an end to the Holo

[monochrom] Rose White: New monochrom blogger!

Rose White is our new monochrom blogger! A warm welcome! Rose is a sociology PhD student at Graduate Center-CUNY, in Manhattan, but lives in Brooklyn because that's where all the action is. Her doctoral work is on how bright people break rules (in other words, deviance and technology!)—tell