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sevensixfive: Towards a General Theory of Cultural Containers
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Sunday, March 30, 2014. Towards a General Theory of Cultural Containers. If you're a person who writes, you probably have that one friend who's always saying brilliant things, but they're not in the habit of writing regularly themselves, so it's difficult to get access to the ideas they come up with in a way that fits within the traditional means of constructing an argument or a position. Does an idea exist if it can't be cited or linked? Anyway, my friend and sometime collaborator Eric Leshinsky. And my...
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sevensixfive: Adaptive Reuse
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Saturday, July 03, 2010. I'm thrilled to have an article in the current issue of the ACM's Interactions Magazine: Adaptive Reuse: Things, Containers, and Streets in the Architecture of the Social Web. Many thanks to Contributing Editor Molly Steenson. For assistance and advice. The piece is, in many ways, a companion to an older article, from 2006, written as the result of a semester long research project in social media, enclosure, and architectures of control: "You must be logged in to do that! And mor...