September 2011
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July 2011
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June 2011
3 posts
rejectamentalist manifesto: France to Women:... →
tentacular:
An Algerian man’s Bad Sexism precludes him from qualifying for French citizenship. ‘[H]is idea of sexual equality is not that of the republic’. Hurrah for the French state! One feels certain this man’s sexism had a kind of Muslimness to it, rather than displaying any fidelity to long-protected Republican traditions of ‘machismo … sexual predat[ion] … salacious remarks … paternalism …...
May 2011
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April 2011
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January 2011
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July 2010
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August 2009
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July 2009
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“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via plsj)
June 2009
2 posts
“There is a painting by Klee called Angelus Novus. It shows an angel looking as...”
– Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History
May 2009
10 posts
“Trace and aura. The trace is appearance of a nearness, however far removed the...”
– Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project, [M16a,4] in the section called The Flaneur, quoted by my friend E. at his new tumblelog: Corner Lot. There are perhaps ten posts on his front page alone that approach the value of my entire library. (via mills)
OSCAR NIEMEYER - The 101-Year-Old Man Who Invented... →
Interview with Oscar Niemeyer, architect of Brasilia
The Clash of Ignorance →
Said’s rebuttal of the “Clash of Civilisations” thesis.
Looking at student opposite’s notes. What look like pics of blasted landscapes reveal themselves, on closer examination, to be b&w slides of gastrointestinal tract.
Kisses and Proposals by Gay Couples in Zagreb →
At noon exactly, ten lesbian and gay couples exchanged rings and kisses in the centre of Zagreb, shocking unsuspecting passers-by.
The Worst Ways to Die: Torture Practices of the... →
A new book, “Extreme Formen von Gewalt in Bild und Text des Altertums” (Extreme Violence in the Visuals and Texts of Antiquity) by Martin Zimmerman, a professor of ancient history in Munich, looks at current research into the kinds of violence that inspired “loathing, dread, horror and disgust.”
k-punk: Avant-conservatism →
But the point is that no-one, even their own supporters, really expects S(onic) Y(outh) to provoke any sort of strong affect at all, just elicit a bland admiration.They’re on our side, they’re good sorts. And the fact is, it is indeed difficult to summon up any affect for them. The emnity is a second-order response to my first order action, which is one of boredom. (A boredom that I...
“Philosophers constantly see the method of science before their eyes, and are...”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein
The analytic/continental divide (discussion) |... →
Best album opener ever ♫ http://blip.fm/~5h25q
April 2009
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Read all of H.P. Lovecraft’s fiction online: http://bit.ly/N98lK (via @jomc)
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RIP JG Ballard, Historian of the Future: Interview... →
This is a transcript of an interview that took place at Claire Walsh’s flat on the Goldhawk Road 31st October 2007. A cat plays on the sofa, another under the table. The nominal reason for me being…
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J.G.Ballard is dead « notes from the ubiquitous... →
Anticipating academics like Baudrillard and Marc Auge by some years, he saw the future in what Nairn called ’subtopia’: suburbs, industrial ruins, traffic islands, gated communities. He once said…
Cabinet Magazine Online - Object Lesson /... →
It is a modern convention to see culture as something alive and changing, yet by the time a trend is actually perceived it has often been dead for quite a while, the myriad artifacts it leaves behind…
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“I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the...”
– J.G. Ballard, author of Crash, High-Rise, The Atrocity Exhibition, The Drowned World, Empire of the Sun, and my favourite book of his, Super-Cannes, died this morning after a number of years of ill health.
February 2009
2 posts
All Access Blogging →
plsj:
“Tips for making your blog more accessible to people with disabilities.”
““The results of more than a century of anthropological research on...”
– Statement on Marriage and the Family from the American Anthropological Association
January 2009
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November 2008
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July 2008
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Julia Margaret Cameron - Victoria and Albert... →
Gallery of the work of early photographer Cameron at the V&A
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Consciousness is queen: Q&A with Terre Thaemlitz →
Interview with musician/queer activist/theorist Terre Thaemlitz
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How To Read Elfriede Jelinek →
Article about Austrian feminist author Elfriede Jelinek
“If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego....”
– John Cage
“Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
February 2008
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Godspeed You Black Emperor! and the Politics of... →
December 2007
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Learning To Love You More →
Learning to Love You More is both a web site and series of non-web presentations comprised of work made by the general public in response to assignments given by artists Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher.
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A Visit to Old Los Angeles →
October 2007
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The Final Girl: A Few Thoughts on Feminism and... →
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Marx's "Capital" in Lithographs →