{"id":3426,"date":"2010-08-15T02:30:53","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T09:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=3426"},"modified":"2010-08-15T16:08:13","modified_gmt":"2010-08-15T23:08:13","slug":"the-sunday-diigo-links-post-weekly-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2010\/08\/15\/the-sunday-diigo-links-post-weekly-87\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"diigo-linkroll\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newleftreview.org\/?view=2740\">New Left Review &#8211; David Harvey: The Right to the City<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Essay by David Harvey on cities\/ remaking the city.<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\nThe question of what kind of city we want cannot be divorced from that of what kind of social ties, relationship to nature, lifestyles, technologies and aesthetic values we desire. The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city. It is, moreover, a common rather than an individual right since this transformation inevitably depends upon the exercise of a collective power to reshape the processes of urbanization. The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/lampertina\">tags<\/a>: \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/new_left_review\">new_left_review<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/david_harvey\">david_harvey<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/cities\">cities<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/urbansim\">urbansim<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/2010\/08\/03\/living-breathing-architecture-todays-tedtalks-playlist\">TED Blog | Living, breathing architecture: Today\u2019s TEDTalks playlist<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Fascinating:<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\nToday\u2019s playlist is about way-new architecture \u2014 using organic forms and living, growing materials to bring fresh life into the buildings, homes and infrastructure we occupy. Magnus Larsson, for instance, has a bold plan to build in the Sahara desert sands using living bacteria:<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/lampertina\">tags<\/a>: \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/ted_conference\">ted_conference<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/video\">video<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/architecture\">architecture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/magnus_larsson\">magnus_larsson<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/bioneering\">bioneering<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/energy\/25989\/?nlid=3371\">Technology Review: Making Smart Windows that Are Also Cheap<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Toward smart skins for buildings?<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\nWindows that absorb or reflect light and heat at the flick of a switch could help cut heating and cooling bills. A company called Soladigm has developed methods for making these &#8220;electrochromic&#8221; windows cheaply, making them more viable for homes and office buildings.<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/lampertina\">tags<\/a>: \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/mit_techreview\">mit_techreview<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/solar_power\">solar_power<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/eco\">eco<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/green_technologies\">green_technologies<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/windows\">windows<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ethanzuckerman.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/03\/kate-crawford-mobile-media-and-the-art-of-noise\">\u2026My heart\u2019s in Accra \u00bb Kate Crawford: mobile media and the art of noise<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Ethan Zuckerman blogged Kate Crawford&#8217;s 8\/3\/10 talk at the Berkman Center. Great points on the history of &#8220;noise&#8221; and information overload. Seems it&#8217;s hardly a new issue, even if the technology keeps changing. Eg.:<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\nBecause we\u2019re negotiating this [constant connectivity] in realtime, there are fears about \u201cnetwork noise\u201d that seem to invoke a \u201cmyth of the fall\u201d, positing a period when media didn\u2019t impinge on our time. She cites Jaron Lanier as making this argument in \u201cYou Are Not a Gadget\u201d and Giorgio Agamben, who made the case that the mobile phone as reshaping Italian gesture and speech, and homogenizing Italian society. But this isn\u2019t a new problem \u2013 she notes that the philosopher Walter Benjamin was complaining about telephones as \u201cuncanny and violent\u201d in 1932.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Art_of_Noise\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 2px solid white\" src=\"http:\/\/ec2.images-amazon.com\/images\/P\/B000001NWR.03.MZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"112\" height=\"109\" \/><\/a>The response to these concerns about information overload are well summed up by Clay Shirky\u2019s pithy quote, \u201cThere is no such thing as information overload, only filter failure.\u201d There\u2019s a wave of \u201cproductivity porn\u201d (using Merlin Mann\u2019s term) like Lifehacker and Getting Things Done that promises to help readers focus. But total focus was never possible, nor desirable. Excesses of information is part of the human experience \u2013 no human could have read all the scrolls in Alexandria \u2013 and this tension between too much or too little information \u2013 between noise and silence \u2013 is an old one.<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/lampertina\">tags<\/a>: \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/berkman\">berkman<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/kate_crawford\">kate_crawford<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/ethan_zuckerman\">ethan_zuckerman<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/connectedness\">connectedness<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/mobile_technology\">mobile_technology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/socialtheory\">socialtheory<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/haque\/2010\/08\/reseeding_the_economy.html\">Reseeding the Economy &#8211; Umair Haque &#8211; Harvard Business Review<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Umair Haque raises some interesting questions in this piece:<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s 2010, and we still don&#8217;t know how to describe the archetypal magnates of the next economy. We don&#8217;t have a word for it, so we resort to awkward neologisms, like &#8220;information entrepreneur&#8221; or &#8220;green mogul.&#8221; It&#8217;s as if we&#8217;re still not quite sure just what kinds of &#8220;capital&#8221; tomorrow&#8217;s tycoons will be &#8220;ists&#8221; of. What are the kernels of tomorrow&#8217;s prosperity?<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/lampertina\">tags<\/a>: \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/harvard_business\">harvard_business<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/umair_haque\">umair_haque<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\">Diigo<\/a>. The rest of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\">favorite links<\/a> are here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Left Review &#8211; David Harvey: The Right to the City Essay by David Harvey on cities\/ remaking the city. QUOTE The question of what kind of city we want cannot be divorced from that of what kind of social ties, relationship to nature, lifestyles, technologies and aesthetic values we desire. 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