What the Vai Script Reveals About the Evolution of Writing - SAPIENS
How a writing system went from being a dream (literally) to a reality, codified in unicode.
Can These Pornographers End ‘MILFs,’ ‘Teens,’ and ‘Thugs’? | The Nation
A fascinating look at an attempt to redefine the taxonomy of online porn.
Porn is part of the ecosystem that tells us what sex and sexuality are. Porn terms are, to use Foucault’s language, part of a network of technologies creating truths about our sexuality.
Reminds of the heady days of 2005, when it was all about tagging and folksonomies.
The project, at its most ambitious, seeks to create a new feedback loop of porn watched and made, unmoored from the vagaries of old, bad, lazy categories.