Tag Archives: Steve Jobs

spiked apples

Posted on September 13, 2012 by Dave

The love of money? Or just the love of risk? Even these pseudo quests for spirituality seemed ennobled by a higher calling: rising to the top of the food chain. And mining is high risk, environmentally contentious and prone to … Continue reading →

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reinvention

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry macintosh. 1984 sales brochure. the big pitch on the cover? it’s portable!! it even comes with your own little backpack to tote it around in! inside it’s a wonder of early science as ‘magic.’ the graphic programs … Continue reading →

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junk culture & creative destruction: open or closed playground

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Dave

Citizenship and delinquency. Is destruction creative? Our capitalist system, the system, or ideology of markets is based on the the idea of creative destruction. The implication is that juvenile delinquents, the innately violent and destructive may have the necessary attributes … Continue reading →

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think different: aren’t i wonderful?

Posted on February 11, 2012 by Dave

His “reality distorted field.” A ruthless, obsessive, perfectionist nature. A productive narcissist bordering on the psychopathic? All the hallmarks of the admired American business leader. The good, the bad and the ugly. The closed ecosystem which will likely permit Android … Continue reading →

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bauhaus: mickey maus austerity

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Dave

Walter Gropius soon realized that his vision could not be realized by one man alone. What was needed was a laboratory of design in which a new generation of artists could apply the discoveries of modern art to architecture and … Continue reading →

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the braun of a new age

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Dave

Apple design and uncanny similarities with post-war design of Braun products. coincidence? Not at all and perfectly comprehensible. The marriage of Apple and Braun design is also uncannily like Werner Fassbinder’s post-war triology, in particular the Marriage of Maria Braun. … Continue reading →

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the anger management chip ( on the shoulder )

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Dave

Although Steve Jobs was worshiped deity on his death,and not dragged through the streets of sirte and paraded on a car hood like a felled prize stag such as Gaddafi, there are some weird and perplexing connections between such powerful … Continue reading →

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i-surrealism: mad mac

Posted on October 8, 2011 by Dave

It is a new nature, a new Spinozian episode that re-designates an entire material world of objects, which includes the individual in bone and flesh, both determined and transformed by technology. So, there is no significant or gaping difference between … Continue reading →

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theory of the middle class : a few bad apples

Posted on October 8, 2011 by Dave

Jonathan McIntosh:We will miss Steve Jobs. We will not miss his pioneering of closed systems, monopolies, predatory business practices, slave labor, worker suicides and locked devices…. Apple products. iwant, iwant, iwant, idesire, idesire,….the epitomy, the sweet spot of American middle … Continue reading →

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final sale: everything must go!

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Dave

Just make sure you win the last game.Under new management. Oh yeah. Remember: nice guys finish last. Wailing not whining. Its called the wailing wall; a cry of anguish of the forsaken, and not a whining of the comfortable piqued … Continue reading →

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