when you need an extra hand

Accident or Invention

"From a certain point of view it would be much better if nothing worked, if nothing functioned. Never being born, escaping the wheel of continual birth and rebirth, no mouth to suck with, no anus to shit through. Will the machines run so badly, their component pieces fall apart to such a point that they will return to nothingness and thus allow us to return to nothingness?" * 

16 accidental inventions that changed the world:

http://www.businessinsider.com/accidental-inventions-that-changed-the-world-2016-6/#coca-cola-4


* Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. Print.

Anyone having a hard time via writing? Dont write, just pay

https://www.papermasters.com/

A new way to outsource. Outsource yourselves. Find someone who writes better. Pay for the labour. Be just. Climb up.

What is academic or scientific or mathematically proven or statistically true?

Thanks to Buse for sharing this with me. Please check the link, you will have the real wit we are after!

Spurious correlations:

http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

Things get dirtier in academia! 3 mins ordering final dissertation

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/mar/04/essays-for-sale-the-booming-online-industry-in-writing-academic-work-to-order

"It takes about three minutes to order a final dissertation for an English literature degree at the UK Essays website. I pick my country, subject and required grade. I go for a 2:1, choose a length – let’s say 5,000 words – a seven-day deadline, and watch the price calculator hit £687 (or £1,236 for a two-day turnaround). Click “next step” and I can enter my topic before being matched with a suitable writer, who will produce an essay “personalised to my requirements”. It would come with a series of promises. “The work we produce is guaranteed to meet the grade you order, or you get your money back.” It will also be “100% free from plagiarism” – and on time." ....

The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices - Ismail al-Jazari

Mechanisms and Motion - Inspiration

http://kmoddl.library.cornell.edu/tour/

M.I.A - P.O.W.A

CONSTITUTE / the world's constitutions to read, search and compare

https://www.constituteproject.org/

Is it too late to premeditate?

The Mindful Lawyer

Word Magic / Language and Myth, Ernst Cassirer

When, in Roman law, the concept of the "legal person" was formally articulated, and this status was denied to certain physical subjects, those subjects were also denied official possession of a proper name. Under Roman law a slave had no legal name, because he could not function as a legal person. 

I Sold My Undergraduate Thesis to a Print Content Farm

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/03/lap_lambert_academic_publishing_my_trip_to_a_print_content_farm.single.html

Co- Action Device 2013 Videos

https://vimeo.com/167110091 Inci Eviner, talking about the project

https://vimeo.com/153765261 Seçil, small excerpt

https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ795468.pdfhttps://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ795468.pdf

three examples of "devices" with singular input

Theo Jansen / Strandbeest: 

Reuben Margolin / Sine Wave Sculptures

Chuck Hoberman / Expandable Sphere 

Monotone Symphony / Yves Klein

Meredith Monk and Robert Een / Hocket, from Facing North (Live, 1990)

more inspiration

http://crappytaxidermy.com

Inspiration for the "Taxidermy Love"rs!

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2027559W/Mr._Wilson's_cabinet_of_wonder

SPORTCHOR / "Ein Sportstück"

Enter Achilles - DV8 Physical Theatre

Pawers on Stage

take the stage
make your rules
you are the law
find your voice

law as a body
paw that law!

get out of your body
move in a bow
shake your
tongue with
fresh made law

law as a body
paw that law!

instant law
constant paw!

law as a body
paw that law!

law as a body
paw that law!

#academia V-GIRLS

http://thev-girls.tumblr.com/

"The V-Girls are Andrea Fraser, Jessica Peri Chalmers, Marianne Weems, Erin Cramer and Martha Baer.  Between 1986 and 96 they presented three panel-performances at galleries, museums and universities both nationally and internationally:  Academia in the Alps: In Search of the Swiss Mis(s) took on the children’s book Heidi as a pretext for talking about issues relating to women in academe, among other things;  The Question of Manet’s Olympia: Posed and Skirted was our panel on art history and theory; and Daughters of the ReVolution approached questions of  generational difference within feminism.  There was, in addition, an earlier panel-presentation Sex in Your Holiday Season that was performed once.

The group was never a traditional theater group but a “reading-and-performance” group whose public presentations evolved out of private meetings and discussions. Formed in the early 1980s to read feminist psychoanalytic theory, the group ended in 96 with Daughters, which charted difficulties in women’s groups and groups in general, including their own. "