Stuff I've Read

[crankyoldman]

On the internets.

- Entrepreneurial spirit and 9 to 5 jobs

- Sexualization: opportunity replaced with obligation.

- iPhone baby quilt. So, I'm mildly obsessed with crafts that mimick technology. Not gonna lie.

- Old fashions redrawn in a new light. I loooove this.

- Would you ever ask a man that question?

- Chinese Couture that reminds me a bit of Amano

- Workwear and femininity.

- Inception iPhone app is trippy. And quite a lot of fun!

- Interview with one of my favorite indie developers, Tale of Tales.

- Science is not the oppressor.

- The beautiful generation: Asian designers and their origins.

Comments

[whitemage]

I always love your links, but the science and oppression one was superb, of course. It's such an intersecting issue, as while I think it's a disservice to dismiss folk wisdom entirely, it's just as detrimental to dismiss the scientific method--and precisely for the reasons stated. Folk knowledge is simply oral/written tradition, possibly empirical in nature at one point, but reduced to the anecdotal.

What's more, you really have to watch your sources not just because of false or missing information, but because other just as patronizing or worse institutions have taken up with such traditions in an effort to avoid intellectualism (i.e. arch-conservative Christianity, a downright abusive conglomerate at points). I don't see anything feminist in eschewing the work of note-worthy scientists of both genders who at its best is for the good of all to follow in the footsteps of an institution designed to be specifically oppressive to anything not white, heterosexual, and male.