March 2011
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A Picture of New York in 1846
Very cool Google Books scan A Picture of New York in 1846
[How can it be situated “northeast of Brooklyn” and just “opposite the northeast part of New York” though?]
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Party Time!
February 2011
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Are Books Overrated?
Rick Gekoski of the Guardian asks is reading overrated? I’ll let the piece speak for itself with only a modicum of commentary here, but he makes a few reasonable points, most of which can be chalked up to the simple hyperbole of the quotee (one being quoted).
Reading may not be “everything” but there’s something to be said for the simple act of reading words in a book...
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Paintings of Theorists and Bears
Homi Bhabha, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Walter Benjamin, Umberto Eco, Edward Said, Simone de Beauvoir, Naomi Klein, Stephen Greenblatt, Gayatri Spivak, Paul Gilroy, Judith Butler, Eduardo Galeano, and Jean Paul Sartre + Simone de Beauvoir…..
….ALL GET WHATS COMING TO THEM!!!!
e.g.
[Homi about to get eaten by bear.]
Predictably, Jean Baudrillard is all “the bear did...
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Monkeying Around for a Very Long Time (Leads to...
Planet of the Planck Apes!!
If every Friday could start out like this! Using a version of Borges ‘total library concept’ we are treated to a re-conceptualizing of what is ultimately Russell’s Paradox (the set of all sets does/does not include itself causing a contradiction thus destroying any attempt of providing a logical foundation of mathematics) - the ‘Catalog of all...
April 2010
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[World history since 1500 is] a race between the West’s growing power to molest...
– William Hardy McNeill, The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community: With a Retrospective Essay (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991), 652.
February 2010
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New Project: Halfway House Party →
Matt Negative and Atomly’s new project documenting their collaborative work focusing on DJ sets, new tracks, images and text.
June 2009
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May 2009
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April 2009
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simula-
simula-1, simula-2, simula-3,…,simula-n.
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i got a three pack that'll never run out!
post-Bunker, pre-Dessert & Decadence, current = Fun