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here's nothing else that's going to make copying harder from now on. And so, if your business model and your aesthetic effect in your literature and your work is intended not to be copied, you're fundamentally not making art for the 21st century. It might be quaint, it might be interesting, but it's not particularly contemporary to produce art that demands these constraints from a bygone era.
6.11.07
Estou me desfazendo os seguintes livros e quadrinhos, todos em bom estado e a preços módicos. Negocio descontos e postagem para compras grandes. Quer tiver interesse em algo, favor escrever um email para rodolfosfilho, no servidor gmail. Quem puder passar a lista para interessados, agradeço.
Livros em inglês
- McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories (Michael Chabon, Margaret Atwood, Stephen King , Poppy Z. Brite, China Mieville, Joyce Carol Oates) - R$20
- Mind Hacks: Tips & Tricks for Using Your Brain (Tom Stafford e Matt Webb) R$35
- Everything Bad is Good for You (Steven Johnson) R$25
- Readymade (Shoshana Berger e Grace Hawthorn) R$40
- DemoScriptbook (Brian Wood) R$25
- Crooked Little Vein (Warren Ellis) R$30
- Choking doberman (Jan Harold Brunvand) R$25
- Holy Blood, Holy Grail (Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh e Henry Lincon) - R$10
- Anansi Boys (Neil Gaiman)$15
Livros em Português
- O Espaço Crítico (Paul Virilio) R$20
- A Incrível Tecnologia dos antigos (David Hatcher Childress ) R$20
- A Era do Controle Remoto (Bruno Jacomy) R$20
- O Poder da Identidade (Manuel Castels) R$35
- O Intelectual (Steve Fuller) R$15
- Espelho das cidades (Henry-Pierre Jeudy ) R$20
- Corpo Presente (João Paulo Cuenca) R$15
- Mangá: Como o Japão Reinventou os Quadrinhos (Paul Gravett) R$45
Quadrinhos em Inglês
- Teenagers From Mars (Rick Sears e Rob G) R$30
- A History of Violence (John Wagner and Vince Locke) R$20
- The Project R$20
- Kling Klang Klatch (Ian McDonald) R$25
- DemoScriptbook (Brian Wood) R$25
- Big Book of Death (Bronwyn Carlton) R$30
- The Best of Negative Burn 93-98 (Vários autores) – R$35
- Vertigo Winter's Edge 1 (Vários autores) – R$5
- Hellblazer: Original Sins (Jamie Delano) – R$30
- Strange Killings (Warren Ellis) – R$15
- The Minx 1 a 8 (Peter Milligan) – R$ 30
- Books of Magic 9 a 13 (John Ney Rieber)- R$20
- New X-Men 114 a 126, Annual 2001 – R$ 35
- JLA: New World Order (Grant Morrison) R$ 25
- JLA: American Dreams (Grant Morrison ) R$ 25
- JLA 10 a 41, Annual 1, Prometheus (Grant Morrison) R$ 50
Quadrinhos em português
- Monstro do Pântano: Monstros (Neil Gaiman) R$5
- Sandman Teatro do Mistério 1 e 2, Especial (Matt Wagner e Steven T.
Seagle) R$10
- Derrotista (Joe Sacco)25
- Supremo: A História do Ano (2 volumes - Alan Moore) R$30
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American law is underenforced—and we like it that way. Full enforcement of every last law on the books would put all of us in prison for crimes such as "injuring a mail bag." No enforcement of our laws, on the other hand, would mean anarchy. Somehow, officials must choose what laws really matter.
12.10.07
Once you start thinking of Google's potential reach, it's easy to become paranoid. I am presently a happy user of Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Reader, Google Earth, Google Maps, Google Docs, Google Chat, Google Groups, Google Video, and Google Notebook (which I use to clip interesting things online). I also love Google Desktop, which has indexed the contents of my computer. What has Google made of all this information? If they wanted, they could know my friends, my family, my weakness for homemade YouTube soccer highlights. They could know what car I drive, where I drive it to, and where I shop. They definitely know what blogs I read and how often I read them. They took a picture of the building where I live. They just started a 411 service that will give them my voice. They're making me a mobile phone. The attention they've lavished on me would be flattering, if it weren't so vaguely menacing. I'm not alone in this feeling.
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A premissa é interessante, mas a execução deixa a desejar. O livro diverte, mas tem dois problemas: a natureza episódica e uma tese muito explícita. A constituição é um MacGuffin óbvio e Ellis o usa para pendurar quase todos os tropos da ficção de detetives. A cada capítulo, McGill e sua ajudante encontram uma subcultura diferente, testemunham algo bizarro, ouvem de membros dela que o underground é o mainstream e partem para outra. Talvez quem não acompanhe o blog de Ellis se surpreenda com as bizarreiras, mas nenhuma grande novidade para mim.
Comparando com os quadrinhos do autor - ou com suas histórias curtas - o romance tem pouca novidade a oferecer, mas diverte. Eu, puta que sou, já estou esperando o próximo, cujos trechos que li são bem mais promissores.
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Indeed, to see China today is to glimpse, in a distant mirror, the 19th-century American economy in all its corner-cutting, fraudulent glory.
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Eu já encomendei (e o do Gibson também.)
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Often as sensationalistic as its yellow predecessor, green journalism tends to appeal to our emotions, exploit our fears, and pander to our vanity. It places a political agenda in front of the quest for journalistic truth and in its most demagogic forms tolerates no criticism, branding all who question it as enemies of the people.
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The shift from modernism to postmodernism did not stem from any profound reformulation in the conditions of cultural production and reception; all that happened, to rhetorically exaggerate, was that the kind of people who had once written Ulysses and To the Lighthouse wrote Pale Fire and The Bloody Chamber instead. But somewhere in the late 1990s or early 2000s, the emergence of new technologies re-structured, violently and forever, the nature of the author, the reader and the text, and the relationships between them.