Tagged: mass production

Fetishisation of the hand-crafted - The Dismal Science

Bill Kaye-Blake • Nov 18, 2012 •

• artisan,
• economics,
• industrialisation,
• Lacan,
• mass production

Last night, while ironing my work shirts, myself, by hand, I caught TVNZ’s programme The New Old and its episode ‘The Artisan’. The blurb: Presenter Wallace Chapman looks at the trend against mass-produced goods and the growing market for handcrafted objects. Chapman interviewed several people who were somehow involved with hand-crafting. One couple were rescuing old [...] … Read More

TOSP Episode 21: February 21st 2012 - misc.ience

Aimee Whitcroft • Feb 20, 2012 •

• aimee whitcroft,
• art,
• artificial life,
• artificial muscle,
• chameleons,
• Code for Life,
• design,
• DNA,
• education,
• electrostatics,
• Elf Eldridge,
• events,
• grant jacobs,
• hack,
• Human,
• investment,
• ISS,
• just so science,
• knitting needle,
• mass production,
• Medically-related,
• misc.ience,
• neanderthal,
• nerja,
• painting,
• podcast,
• prozac,
• Quantum physics,
• registry of standard biological parts,
• robobees,
• Roger Hanson,
• science communication,
• sequencing,
• soft motor,
• static energy,
• synthetic biology,
• The Cosmic Engine,
• The Official Sciblogs Podcast,
• TOSP,
• water,
• yoghurt

We’re back!  And with a minimum of difficulties this week :) This week, Elf and aimee talk of a new soft motor, ROBOBEES, a teeeeeensy chameleon (squee!), hacking yoghurt, some very ancient art, ROBOBEES, investing in yourself, knitting needles and water bubbles and space, quantum computing for beginners, sequencing genomes on a USB stick-sized device [...] … Read More