Social scientists have a name for this sort of incessant online contact. They call it “ambient awareness.” It is, they say, very much like being physically near someone and picking up on his mood through the little things he does — body language, sighs, stray comments — out of the corner of your eye
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I'm So Totally, Digitally Close to You - Clive Thompson - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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This is the paradox of ambient awareness. Each little update — each individual bit of social information — is insignificant on its own, even supremely mundane. But taken together, over time, the little snippets coalesce into a surprisingly sophisticated portrait of your friends’ and family members’ lives, like thousands of dots making a pointillist painting
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Britannica definition on Romanticism - 0 views
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Charles Dickens, Hard Times (1854), excerpts - 0 views
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I think the supreme irony Dickens illustrates is that people in the idustrial revolution had to work under attrocious conditions in mines and factories in order to get money to live, yet it was that same work that eventually killed them. Either through years of compounded coal dust in their lungs or accidents in the mines or facotries.
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It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood, it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vast piles of building full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness. It contained several large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one another, who all went in and out at the same hours, with the same sound upon the same pavements, to do the same work, and to whom every day was the same as yesterday and to-morrow, and every year the counterpart of the last and the next.
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Communist Manifesto (Chapter 1) - 1 views
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holy alliance to exorcise
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All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.
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It compels all nations, on pain of extinction,
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The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns.
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Because there is too much civilisation, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce.
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He becomes an appendage of the machine, and it is only the most simple, most monotonous, and most easily acquired knack, that is required of him.
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Not only are they slaves of the bourgeois class, and of the bourgeois State; they are daily and hourly enslaved by the machine, by the overlooker, and, above all, by the individual bourgeois manufacturer himself.
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All are instruments of labour, more or less expensive to use, according to their age and sex.
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At this stage, the labourers still form an incoherent mass scattered over the whole country, and broken up by their mutual competition.
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Thereupon, the workers begin to form combinations (Trades’ Unions) against the bourgeois; they club together in order to keep up the rate of wages; they found permanent associations in order to make provision beforehand for these occasional revolts. Here and there, the contest breaks out into riots.
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so now a portion of the bourgeoisie goes over to the proletariat,
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The proletarian is without property; his relation to his wife and children has no longer anything in common with the bourgeois family relations;
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The proletarian movement is the self-conscious, independent movement of the immense majority, in the interest of the immense majority.
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Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable
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By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labour
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By proletariat, the class of modern wage labourers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labour power in order to live.
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immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilisation
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Wassily Kandinsky - biography, paintings, books - 0 views
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Wassily Wasilyevich Kandinsky was born on December, 16th (4), 1866 in Moscow, in a well-to-do family of a businessman in a good cultural environment.