Just some of my favorite quotes from what I read this past week on tech&society:

“cupcakes match—& attempt to assuage—our cultural anxieties of the moment”

“The obsession with the Minority Report computer is a betrayal of everything that is human about computers”

“lets situate our Western New Aesthetic w/in its global context. What kinds of New Aesthetic are we blind to?”

“Each second, I observe friends on Facebook contributing to a shared space of disposable moments”

“I’m wondering, now, if machines are, by default, gender queer?”

“AUDI’s e-sound essentially turns the automobile into a rolling instrument for playing the sound of the engine”

“the modes of constraint operating through [the Web] are material, while liberation is semiotic”

“the flight path of a digital artifact never fully stops unfolding, so the range of possibility is never fully formed”

“typewriters alter the physical connection between writer and text“