M and A
...an overarching Headless-style endeavor. This one seeks to complete the 18th century work of August Nordenskiöld—an amateur alchemist who tried create gold with the ultimate aim of devaluing it—within today’s...
Sunday Reading
..."Art could, by prefiguring the ideal culture, push society into the future." Linda Rodriguez: “Fiddling With Freedom: Solomon Northup’s Musical Trade in 12 Years a Slave” “It’s a fascinating process...
"violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid"
...around the perimeter, armed with both guns and pencils, the latter to take notes as to who was speaking and what the speaker was saying. We tried to make this...
Beauty Blogosphere 9.7.12
...the solution, just as banning photo retouching does little to address the root concerns it's meant to address. What the solution is, I don't know. Glad Brigitte tried; unsurprised it...
The Paper Chase
...Michael Hudson as his economic advisor, tried to evangelize MMT ideas during a presidential campaign, to no avail. Even when Paul Krugman addresses MMT, which he does, rarely, he oscillates...
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...in mind that although she tried to dress and dance like poor Afro-Brasileras, as a white woman she never would have had to carry a fruit basket on her head....
Towards a 'Moral' Assassination Model
...most transparent administration in history ' line, this time in a 'fireside hangout' hosted by Google: '[W]hat I tried to do coming into the office was to create a legal...
Sweet VR of California
Sweet Valley is a digital utopia where bodiless souls can explore psychedelic understandings through a networked VR high-school cult
Critical Moments: Burning with Pride
...they’ve been robbed of in these stored all these years. “The people here tried legal means of getting help, and they got nothing. They begged the white people to listen...
This Week in Art Crime
...was no victim: he paid the pair with photocopied money. The con artists realized they had been tricked when they tried to deposit 1.7 million Swiss francs (€1.5 million) in...
Footnote Fairy Tale
...by our determination and our strength. They tried to crush us over and over again, but we wouldn’t be crushed.” He runs through the crimes of the Stalinist era, which...
Making It: A Miseducation
...day that one teacher, Dr. Bond—a fiery preacher known in our school for his flamboyant suits, hallway hemlocks, and constant command for us to “pull up our pants”—asked me a...
Can't Wait Forever
...and said they were sorry. They tried to justify what they did. They gave me cold water. They asked me if I wanted food. But this is just one example,...
Square and Circle: The Logic of Occupy
...of the camp whenever they tried to enter. But attempts to mediate the conflict essentially failed, and S. seemed immune to all reason. One day, after he had started another...
Just Friends
...the way creative technological disruption, in the form of social media, has tried to make friendship just another platform for self-fashioning consumption. There could be another side to this antagonism....
Lies and Videotape
...you’ll feel like we tried napalm out on you, at your expense. We can only give you a hint of an idea of how napalm works. In both films, the...