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monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993.
Time to Pay the Piper: The Accumulation of Debts in Patriarchal Capitalism
In 2001, Wilma Dunaway wrote that the “tentacles of the world-system are entwined around the bodies of women.” Yet her literary analysis revealed a profound silence about the role of women in reproductive labor, subsistence households, and commodity chain analysis. Dunaway characterized this omission as, “the greatest intellectual and political blunder” in her field. Nearly … Read more
Bechdel Test for Women in Movies
It’s a simple test for the presence of women in movies, and it’s really remarkable how many movies fail. Link
Peter Tyack: The intriguing sound of marine mammals
Peter Tyack of Woods Hole talks about a hidden wonder of the sea: underwater sound. Onstage at Mission Blue, he explains the amazing ways whales use sound and song to communicate across hundreds of miles of ocean. Link
Little House of Abuse: “Confessions of a Prairie Bitch”
Getting to play one of the nastiest little girls to ever make people want to hurl things at their televisions wasn’t just fun, it was therapy for Alison Arngrim, who channeled the anger and hurt she felt at being physically and sexually abused into playing Nellie Oleson, the villainous rival to Laura Ingalls in the … Read more
IBM builds world’s most advanced “Jeopardy!” machine
For the last three years, I.B.M. scientists have been developing what they expect will be the world’s most advanced “question answering” machine, able to understand a question posed in everyday human elocution ”natural language,” as computer scientists call it – and respond with a precise, factual answer. In other words, it must do more than … Read more
“My Life As A Quant”: Emanuel Derman and the Quantitative Strategies Group at Goldman Sachs
Emanuel Derman, a former managing director and head of the Quantitative Strategies Group at Goldman Sachs & Co, is a professor in Columbia University’s Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department, as well as a partner at Prisma Capital Partners. He is the author of My Life As A Quant. Dr. Derman, who spent 17 years … Read more