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13 Sep 02:11

Producción simbólica e infraestructura

by Roger Colom


El otro día, un amigo, actor en el Teatro San Martín, me contó que hace tiempo que no cobra. El TSM, al parecer, carece del presupuesto que merece como la institución que debe ser. Me contó también mi amigo que el SM sobrevive del dinero que recibe por el alquiler de algunas de sus salas para fiestas y eventos privados. El Gobierno de la ciudad no considera que el Centro Cultural San Martín sea rentable.

Pensar que una institución de este tipo de ser rentable en términos de dinero, es no entender siquiera el concepto de rentabilidad. Si sólo se piensa a corto plazo—mala idea para el gobierno de una ciudad—sí, hay que interpretar la rentabilidad en términos del dinero que entra ya. Pero en cuanto se empieza a pensar en la ciudad, su crecimiento social, cultural y económico, que van de la mano, hay instancias en las que es mucho más rentable construir, programar y mostrar, por ejemplo, la gran producción simbólica de la que Buenos Aires es capaz. El prestigio cultual y simbólico de una ciudad es una forma, no menor, de rentabilidad. Y sirve para promover la ciudad, sus otras industrias, el valor de vivir en ella, o por lo menos, de tener propiedades en ella.

El GCBA piensa, como todo gobierno conservador, en términos inmobiliarios. No en el valor añadido de la circulación de ideas y personas por su territorio. Otro ejemplo de esto, ya no en la cultura, sino en la tecnología, es el caso del Distrito Tecnológico de Parque Patricios. Aparte de nombrarlo así, de abrir una comisaría de la Policía Metropolitana y contratar a Norman Foster para que diseñe el nuevo edificio del Banco Ciudad, no se ha hecho gran cosa para que ese distrito sea verdaderamente tecnológico. Simplemente, se ha llevado a cabo otra operación inmobiliaria, con la subsiguiente subida de precios del metro cuadrado.

Sin embargo, había, o hay una manera de convertir una sección de la ciudad en un distrito tecnológico de verdad. Una que abre las posibilidades de rentabilidad a medio y largo plazo, y amplía por mucho, incluso, las de la rentabilidad inmobiliaria: instalar fibra óptica, internet a altísima velocidad. Otras ciudades del mundo lo han hecho, y han visto como inmediatamente llegan a ellas empresas de tecnología, y además, toda clase de negocios y comercios que les surten insumos y servicios. El precio de las propiedades, por supuesto, se dispara.

Buenos Aires—y Argentina—necesita instituciones culturales fuertes que ayuden a proyectar su gran producción simbólica al mundo. Y no sólo eso, sino infraestructura para todas sus industrias simbólicas, desde las que producen teatro a las que producen software. Tenemos una población formada y ávida no sólo de consumir, sino también de producir. Hay que aprovechar esa enorme energía que ya tenemos. La balanza de pagos del país nos lo está pidiendo a gritos.

Si los gobiernos, en todos los niveles, construyen y mantienen las infraestructuras necesarias, surgirán miles de pequeñas y medianas empresas que las aprovechen, las rentabilicen, generando ingresos importantes para el país y, lo que es más importante, su población. La idea, creo, es pensar en términos de ciudades dinámicas, imaginativas, con potencia simbólica. Eso sí que puede ser rentable.

10 Jun 23:25

Enzor and Mono underwater mural in Almagro

by admin

Enzor and Mono painted a beautiful mural in Almagro at the end of last year. It features an underwater scene with a character who appears to be wearing a mask and holding a jellyfish. Enzor and Mono Marine life Later intervention by Marc Bellini to the right of the mural Street in Almagro

Original Post: Enzor and Mono underwater mural in Almagro
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22 Apr 12:37

Controlar la Web: una tendencia preocupante en América Latina

by bea

En un mundo donde cada vez hay más intervenciones del Estado o de empresas privadas en la regulación de Internet, Latinoamérica no es la excepción. Entrevista realizada a Beatriz Busaniche, por José Di Bártolo para Eldiario.es Regular: Ajustar algo a una forma dada. El objetivo es claro para algunas empresas privadas, incluso para varios Estados, que [...]
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23 Mar 04:09

Botnet puts heavy financial toll on advertising industry

A sophisticated botnet clicks itself through internet advertising by simulating human clicking behaviour. This has caused the advertising industry damage running into millions


23 Mar 02:34

Apollo F-1 engines recovered from Atlantic ocean floor by Bezos Expeditions

by Xeni Jardin

Gas Generator and Manifold. Photo: Bezos Expeditions

A space history project led by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has exciting news out today: Apollo mission F-1 engines have been recovered from deep beneath the surface of the Atlantic ocean, as the "F-1 Recovery Project" years in the making reaches a successful conclusion.

Here's video of the Remote Operated Vehicles recovering the engines from the ocean floor.

The F-1 rocket engine is still a modern wonder — one and a half million pounds of thrust, 32 million horsepower, and burning 6,000 pounds of rocket grade kerosene and liquid oxygen every second. On July 16, 1969, the world watched as five particular F-1 engines fired in concert, beginning the historic Apollo 11 mission. Those five F-1s burned for just a few minutes, and then plunged back to Earth into the Atlantic Ocean, just as NASA planned. A few days later, Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon.
"We're excited to be bringing a couple of your F-1s home," Bezos said to NASA.

And Boing Boing has a statement from NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden:

Nearly one year ago, Jeff Bezos shared with us his plans to recover F-1 engines that helped power Apollo astronauts to the moon in the late 1960s and early 1970s. We share the excitement expressed by Jeff and his team in announcing the recovery of two of the powerful Saturn V first-stage engines from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

This is a historic find and I congratulate the team for its determination and perseverance in the recovery of these important artifacts of our first efforts to send humans beyond Earth orbit.

We look forward to the restoration of these engines by the Bezos team and applaud Jeff's desire to make these historic artifacts available for public display.

Jeff and his colleagues at Blue Origin are helping to usher in a new commercial era of space exploration and we are confident that our continued collaboration will soon result in private human access to space, creating jobs and driving America's leadership in innovation and exploration.

And here is a snip from the blog post by Bezos, just published moments ago:

What an incredible adventure. We are right now onboard the Seabed Worker headed back to Cape Canaveral after finishing three weeks at sea, working almost 3 miles below the surface. We found so much. We’ve seen an underwater wonderland – an incredible sculpture garden of twisted F-1 engines that tells the story of a fiery and violent end, one that serves testament to the Apollo program. We photographed many beautiful objects in situ and have now recovered many prime pieces. Each piece we bring on deck conjures for me the thousands of engineers who worked together back then to do what for all time had been thought surely impossible.

Many of the original serial numbers are missing or partially missing, which is going to make mission identification difficult. We might see more during restoration. The objects themselves are gorgeous. The technology used for the recovery is in its own way as otherworldly as the Apollo technology itself. The Remotely Operated Vehicles worked at a depth of more than 14,000 feet, tethered to our ship with fiber optics for data and electric cables transmitting power at more than 4,000 volts. We on the team were often struck by poetic echoes of the lunar missions. The buoyancy of the ROVs looks every bit like microgravity. The blackness of the horizon. The gray and colorless ocean floor. Only the occasional deep sea fish broke the illusion.

Thrust Chamber and Fuel Manifold. Photo: Bezos Expeditions

F-1 Thrust Chamber. Photo: Bezos Expeditions

F-1 Thrust Chamber on ocean floor. Photo: Bezos Expeditions

Saturn V Stage Structure. Photo: Bezos Expeditions

Nozzle. Photo: Bezos Expeditions

23 Mar 02:32

Poster for Yet Another F*cking Music Festival

by EDW Lynch

Another Fucking Music Festival

Yet Another Fucking Music Festival takes place during the hottest 3 days this summer at a really inconvenient location. Headliners include That Band All Over The Radio, 2 Dudes & A MacBook, Cute Girl With A Guitar And A Sundress, and The Sellouts. This rather spot-on parody poster is by entertainment, art, and design studio Neat Dude Collective. The poster is available for purchase.

via Laszlo Thoth

23 Mar 02:31

The Arduino Basic Connects Chart Is a Handy Reference Guide for All Your Arduino Projects

by Thorin Klosowski
Click here to read The Arduino Basic Connects Chart Is a Handy Reference Guide for All Your Arduino Projects Learning how to do everything on the Arduino can get a little tricky when you're working with a lot of parts. Thankfully, Arduino forum member Romano d'Ezzelino has put together a series of reference cards that show the basics of a number of common connections. More »


23 Mar 02:20

Lean Frizzera paints Sexy skaters and Damaged Robot

by admin

Lean Frizzera painted a stunning piece in Agronomia this week that features five scantily clad female skaters attending to a damaged robot. The huge mural measures 16 by 6 metres. Robot girls – new mural by Lean Frizzera

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