tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8245337576952089522012-01-30T23:52:12.747-06:00Blog on art, politics, and trash. Art posts focus on contemporary art, esp. new media, and include analyses of complex works and reports on exhibitions, as well as brief alerts about cool new stuff. Political posts focus on info not well-reported in the corporate media.c.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14655618504753353692noreply@blogger.comBlogger12401100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-824533757695208952.post-76901299086512743742012-01-30T23:50:00.002-06:002012-01-30T23:52:12.756-06:00

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Just when one might have feared that Assange and Wikileaks had been successfully sidelined, WL's issued this press release:Julian Assange will be hosting a series of in-depth conversations with key political players, thinkers and revolutionaries from around the world. The theme: the world tomorrow.Upheavals and revolutions in the Middle East have commenced an era of political change that is still

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I'd embed Alain de Botton's TED talk, "Atheism 2.0," except that for some reason, TED's forcing a big bunch of empty space above the vidi, so scrue 'em; go here for the talk.I had several of my own comments, among them being that while I agree that propaganda is a form of art, I believe there's an important, distinguishing characteristic of the greatest art, and that is that, intentionally or

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Excellent overview of where these bills are coming from and what we should expect going forward, at TED.

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As explained in a 2009 post and by others before me, "insect-resistent" GM plants have in fact been engineered to produce food that's literally full of poison.Lately I'm hearing stories on public radio (the only traditional-media news product I regularly consume) about "good" GM – how spider genes have enabled silkworms to create stronger silk, and how sunflower seeds have been engineered to

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"Book V of Aristotle’s Politics describes the eternal transition of oligarchies making themselves into hereditary aristocracies – which end up being overthrown by tyrants or develop internal rivalries as some families decide to 'take the multitude into their camp' and usher in democracy, within which an oligarchy emerges once again, followed by aristocracy, democracy, and so on throughout history

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Ok, we need a better term. The basic idea is, the fundamental rights recognized by the Founding Fathers, such as the right not to be killed without due process of law, belong to ALL people, not just US citizens; and that when we acquiesce in violations of that right of others, we should expect soon to suffer the same ourselves.Per WaPo,[N]o president has ever relied so extensively on the secret

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You may have seen an earlier post in which I warned I'd be on hiatius for while in order to work on a big project.Well, Phase 1 of The Wedding Project was a participatory/performance/screenings event, in which a real wedding occurred (my own).I made two one-hour videos for the project, one for guests to watch and the other to be projected onto their backs, and I and my sig. other and 80+ friends

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. . . is not about market "discipline," according to Dean Baker:The people who gave us the eurozone crisis are working around the clock to redefine it in order to profit politically. Their editorials – run as news stories in media outlets everywhere – claim that the euro crisis is a story of profligate governments being reined in by the bond market. This is what is known in economics as a "lie".

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Note that one tends to attribute the lead to the tallest, front-center guy; he's got the best, most robotic look.

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A parody; but I'm pretending it just augments the original, 'cuz I think together they constitute more, better:Johnie on xbox livefending off the newbs as he's claimin 'bout a screw.What's missing from this awesome jive?is the fact the girl's someone that he never really knew.He tries to be tough in schoolbut really he crawls home... as he's crying in his drool.He calls himself impressive guywhen

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Another of my favorite components of P.2 New Orleans was the satellite show curated by John Otte, "Constant Abrasive Irritation Produces the Pearl: A Disease of the Oyster" - Lenny Bruce.The setting for the show is The Pearl, a residence-speakeasy-restaurant-exhibition space further described by Eric Bookhardt at The Gambit as "a 200-year-old farm house posing as a nondescript Bywater residence.

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(Photo by ?; gif-ized by moi.)

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. . . within my range, at Click Mort: "I see my work as nothing more than reconfiguring two useless pieces of cultural debris into one piece of useless cultural debris." (Thanks, Ben!)UPDATE: I just realized, Click Mort's work is included in the Divine exhibition at the Webb Gallery in Waxahachie, TX, through Feb. 5.

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From Raw Story:WASHINGTON — About 20 “Occupy DC” protesters took their anti-corporate demonstration to the corridors of the US Congress, toting a “golden calf” made from papier-mache to symbolize lawmakers’ subservience to moneyed interests.The protest, said the group’s leader Jeremy John, aimed to call attention to the “the worship of money,” by the US legislature.The second photo is from

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As in Prospect.1, the works included in Prospect.2 were scattered among venues all over New Orleans, this time some 20 of them.And as in P.1, the work was first-rate. There was substantially less of it this time (but still far more than I could see in three days, although I found the amount of empty space at the CAC rather striking); and what there was seemed heavily weighted toward U.S.-based

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Prospect New Orleans is an international art biennial founded and directed by Dan Cameron, former Sr. Curator of the New Museum and Director of the New Orleans CAC. Cameron conceived the event as a way to help bring visitors back to the city after Katrina.Prospect.1 in 2008 was more or less spectacular (see posts here); Prospect.2 was delayed a year for lack of funding and is smaller but still

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From the NYT: "Last week, I had a conversation with a man who runs his own trading firm. In the process of fuming about competition from Goldman Sachs, he said with resignation and exasperation: 'The fact that they were bailed out and can borrow for free — it’s pretty sickening.'"Though the sentiment is commonplace these days, I later found myself thinking about his outrage. Here is someone who

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I've been thinkin' about going to art school, but maybe all I need is Hennessy."WHAT UP INTERNET. THIS YA BOY HENNESSY YOUNGMAN, AND TODAY I WANTED TO MOVE BACK INTO THEORY A LITTLE BIT AND INTRODUCE AND EXPLAIN THIS THING CALLED RELATIONAL AESTHETICS TO YA'LL. U KNOW I LOVE YOU INTERNET, AND AM JUST TRYING TO ENWISEN YOU TO THESE IMPORTANT CONCEPTS THAT BE SCULPTING THE INTELLECTUAL FRAMEWORK OF

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Thanks to Frugal Dad for this updated chart. (For an even bigger version, click on the image to see it in a separate page, then click on it again.)The bright spot has, of course, been the internet; but the 1% is fast closing in on controlling that as well (click on the "media consolidation" label for a bit more info on that, and assume that things have gotten worse since those posts).

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As the Boston Globe reported in a blurb on a paper by Babiak, P. et al., “Corporate Psychopathy: Talking the Walk,” Behavioral Sciences & the Law (March/April 2010), "[o]ne of the authors of [a recent] study was hired by companies to evaluate managers . . . for a management development program. It turns out that these managers scored higher on measures of psychopathy than the overall population,

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Who's saying it does? I've heard the claim attributed to Occupiers, but I personally haven't seen or heard any Occupiers make it.In fact, I'd argue it's the 1% who've acted as if they believe the economy's a zero-sum game – and in so doing, have made it so.Here are a couple of factors to think about (from my essay, Ten Things You Need to Know About the Infowar, which as far as I can tell no one

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November 28th – In solidarity with UC Davis, UC Berkeley, CUNY schools and all students who are defending their right to protest against rising tuition costs and out-of-control student debt. We ask you to STRIKE! No work, no school – please join together in a central area of your choosing and stand up against the VIOLENCE and SUPPRESSION that is happening in our schools.Please abide by the Pledge

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Watch the video below to see how one videographer stood up to illegal intimidation by NYPD police:Per Gizmodo, police in at least three states have taken the position that citizens have no right to record police without the latter's prior consent, based on laws that prohibit wire-tapping without the consent of all parties recorded.I believe most legal scholars disagree. The ACLU has published an

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Another brilliant piece by Taibbi in one of the last bastions of journalism still standing in the U.S., Rolling Stone; here's a taste:[W]hen we abandoned our principles in order to use force against terrorists and drug dealers, the answer to the question, What are we defending? started to change.The original answer, ostensibly, was, "We are defending the peaceful and law-abiding citizens of the

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. . . as explained by William K. Black. You've got to see this.

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(Thanks, Ben!) Don't miss the last segment starting ca. 5:30 min.

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The “WikiLeaks Top Secret Mobile Information Collection Unit” has no actual affiliation with Wikileaks; its owner, artist/activist/prankster Clark Stoeckley, just wanted to raise awareness about WL. But the truck had become something of an OWS mascot, when on Nov. 17, police impounded it – except the truck never made it to the pound.Stoeckley was arrested for "Obstructing Governmental

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Per Bill Moyers (see vidi below), the term was coined by Citgroup in 2005 to refer to "an economic system where the privileged few make sure the rich get richer, with government on their side."The following spring, Citigroup issued a memo to their wealthy investors in which they actually stated flat out that favorable treatment by governments had allowed the "plutonomists" to take an increasing

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. . . is available on Alternet (with visuals).

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More photos here.Per the Brookfield Patch, 25,000 to 30,000 showed up at the rally, and organizers say they've collected more than 105,000 signatures on recall petitions.

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Another one I've got to re-blog. As Xeni Jardin at BoingBoing put it, I thought I wouldn't see a more dramatic video than the ones yesterday of the pepper-spraying of students by police at UC Davis [see video of the spraying, here]. I was wrong.In the video [below in this post] UC Davis students [silently] confront Chancellor Linda Katehi just one day after the incident. It's hard to tell

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From the Yes Men:Massive 24-hour DRUM CIRCLE and JAM SESSION party starting tomorrow, Sunday at 2pm, outside Mayor Bloomberg's personal townhouse: 17 East 79th Street.Tie-dye, didgeridoo, hackeysack welcome! No shirt, no shoes, no problem! And if you don't have talent, don't worry: FREE DRUM LESSONS offered! Also on offer: collaborative drumming with the police!Even though this is a 24-hour drum

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. . . Wikileaks has played a key role in drawing the veil from people's eyes around the world about what their governments have been doing to them at the behest of the 1%.I think a lot of people knew in their hearts that things weren't right; but in country after country, WL disclosed the indisputable proof: what authorities themselves were telling each other about what they were doing.I believe

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One observer has suggested that the real reason for the crackdown on the Occupy camps was that "[t]he camps were the beginnings of a community . . . the community needed for a culture of resistance." Highly ironic if, as seems likely (see, e.g., here and here), the Obama's administration was instrumental in coordinating the crackdown.Civil liberties groups have filed a FOIA request for

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When the NYPD evicted the OWS-er's camp from Liberty Square (f.k.a. Zuccotti Park), the property was reportedly tossed into garbage trucks and dump trucks; but the reality may be worse. Motherboard suggests the laptops look like they were attacked with a baseball bat (but not, one imagines, before their contents had been downloaded; note the label scrawled on the blue laptop). (More info and

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Click on the image for a larger version, or go to Fairey's site.In related news, here's a site for posters re- the OWS movement.

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I usually avoid re-blogging what's been on other popular sites, but this remarkable document is not to be missed (by terrydatiger) – it's worth watching the whole thing, though events unfold gradually. The incident occurred in connection with the eviction of OWS campers at UC Davis. One of the students sprayed was still coughing up blood 45 min. later (see Bicycle Barricade). It's been

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"Why . . . should our elections be any cause for celebration, when even in the best of all possible worlds they will be just another supposedly 'representative' body ruling in the interest of the 1% over the remaining 99% of us? This new Egyptian parliament will have effectively no powers whatsoever, and—as many of us see it—its election is just a means of legitimating the ruling junta’s seizure

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Now I know where Minnie Mouse got her fashion sense.

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Per their website:Occupy London has taken over a huge abandoned office block in the borough of Hackney belonging to the investment bank UBS, in a move it describes as a "public repossession."* * * * *The multimillion pound complex, which has been empty for several years, is the group’s third space and its first building, adding to its two camps at St Paul’s Courtyard – near the London Stock

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. . . by floating them. (Image from @abc7newsBayArea.)

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Context for the emerging OWS movement.

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Per Washington's Blog, quoting Wonkette:Remember when people were freaking out over the Patriot Act and Homeland Security and all this other conveniently ready-to-go post-9/11 police state stuff, because it would obviously be just a matter of time before the whole apparatus was turned against non-Muslim Americans when they started getting complain-y about the social injustice and economic

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Photo from This Is The Right One (thanks!) (Click on the image for a larger version.) Per the UK Guardian:A massive projection is being displayed on the Verizon building . . . . In a series of shots it reads, "We are the 99%, Look around, you are a part of a global uprising...We are unstoppable, another world is possible...We are a cry from the heart of the world...It is the beginning of the

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The November 17 march began at Liberty Square (f.k.a. Zuccotti Park); proceeded to Union Square where it picked up striking NYU and other students; and then to Foley Square, where it picked up the unions. From there, they proceeded to Brooklyn Bridge.The police presence has been massive, but they seem to have limited themselves mainly to trying to split up and divert the marchers.Bloomberg

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From Agent 23, who explains, "I copied it from an NYPD chat forum. This is the sort of thing some police officers dream of doing to 'protesters,' apparently."

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At 1AM last night, police cleared Zuccotti Park, allegedly violently – again, after clearing out the media ("for their own safety"). Reports are that the occupiers' computers and other hardware, as well as their tents, were dumped into garbage trucks and hauled off.At 7-something this morning, a NY court issued an injunction ordering that the protesters must be allowed back into the park pending

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Time lapse sequences of photographs taken with a special low-light 4K-camera by the crew of expedition 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station, 2011. Edited by Michael König; more details here. (Thanks, Robin!)

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Watching Occupy Portland livestream. The mayor had decreed the eviction of the camp tonite, but 7,000 Portlanders came out in support of the occupiers. Police are overwhelmed (so far).(Image thanks to Occupy Portland livestream.)UPDATE: Observers report that at one point, the crowd chanted to police, "You're sexy, you're cute. Take off your riot suit!"FURTHER UPDATE: AS OF 4PM the next day (Sun.

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Maybe 50 protesters, not bad for Dallas, considering the camp conducts marches daily, so there's probably a certain burn-out rate.It's hard to imagine any actual crime occurring in or near the camp, as alleged, given that our march was surveilled by at least eight cops in or on 5 vehicles, wielding still and video cameras – nearly one cop per each half-doz. protesters! If only they watched the

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Received today:“No Show”a non-exhibition featuring nothing at all by Seth MittagaticetsuoH Contemporary Museum of Modern (iCMM)This non-exhibition will not open on Tuesday, November 15, 2001, 7-11 p.m.Said The Art Guys, icetsuoH Curators of Modern and Contemporary Activities, “Well, Seth was going to do a show but then he got too busy and had to cancel so we thought that rather than canceling the

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"Occupy Dallas . . . together with Creative Factory Occupy Dallas . . . will be hosting a peaceful march on November 12th . . . ."The march will serve the purpose of [raising] awareness [of] the effects [of] Texas budget cuts . . . on Dallas area teachers and also [on] the arts programs that our children attend. . . . We stand in support of artists and teachers who have helped fill the gaps in

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1. Re- allegations that the camps have become breeding grounds for unsanitary conditions, vagrancy, crime, etc.,* one point I haven't seen made elsewhere is that even if the camps were broken up, any criminals, vagrants, or the like that may have been drawn to the camps aren't just going to vaporize; they're going to disperse right back into the rest of the city. And without being

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A piece I wrote that was published in the hard copy journal of true stories, Fray magazine, here. Illustration by Mal Jones (see more by Mal in his Flickerstream). The piece is excerpted from a longer work-in-progress, Diary of the Dead.*As fellow-contributor Jarrett Liotta put it, "I'm happy to get my Fray copies, which have a retail value of $60. (That's a lot of money in the Sudan.)"

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I dropped by unannounced day before yesterday, before the cold weather blew in. There were more protesters than I'd expected, they were peaceful and in good spirits, and everything seemed in good order. (Click on the images for larger versions.)Someone had donated tents, and the Hari Krishnas (think Kalachandji's) have been providing much of their food. The camp has internet, though slow; they

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Details here.The Swedish extradition effort is based on allegations of sexual misconduct by two women who do not want to press charges and after the first Swedish investigation concluded that the case should be dropped.It's generally believed that Sweden will hand Assange over to the U.S.Neither Assange nor Wikileaks has yet been charged with violating any law of any nation. Assange is being

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See also Occupy Wall Street stream, Global Revolution stream, Occupy Nashville stream, etc.

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Benoît Mandelbrot, inventor of fractal geometry – the branch of mathematics that describes the hidden order in nature and in seemingly chaotic systems – died this last Thursday.More here.

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More here.

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. . . held by 37 million companies and investors worldwide. "When the team further untangled the web of ownership, it found much of it tracked back to a "super-entity" of 147 even more tightly knit companies – all of their ownership was held by other members of the super-entity – that controlled 40 per cent of the total wealth in the network. "In effect, less than 1 per cent of the companies

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Excellent exposition of what's happening now and how we got here.

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. . . on facebook.

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Download the kit for this and related messages at Occupy George.(Thanks, Tom!)For more re- money messages, see here.

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The video below shows ongoing, OWS-style protests in Madrid. The best part follows the final movement of Beethoven's 9th, about 3 min. in; per ismashedmydick, "They're holding their empty palms in the air, chanting 'These are our weapons!' It's to show their peaceful resistance movement." Tens of thousands of people marched through the streets of Madrid on Saturday

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From Alternet:According to Paul Buchheit, a professor with City Colleges of Chicago and founder of fightingpoverty.org, “if middle- and upper-middle-class families had maintained the same share of American productivity that they held in 1980, they would be making an average of $12,500 more per year.” The size of our economy, he wrote, “has quintupled since 1980, and we all contributed to that

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Nice visual summary from True Majority. Click on the image for a larger version, or find an even larger one here.

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UPDATE: If you live in Dallas, TX, see Occupy Dallas.

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. . . is Sept. 21 - 25!To my extreme regret, I have to miss it 'cuz I'll be out of town, and before that, I'll be too busy to put together the kind of chronologically-ordered schedule I've provided in previous years.However, the Fest website is here, with lots of info and, I'm sure, more to come.And I guarantee that if you go and see all you possibly can, you'll see things you'll remember with

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I'm saving up a few items for future posts, but had to sneak back to share this: (Thanks, Ben! More at Dark Roasted Blend.) So, who's turn is it to be the "designated excavator"? (B.t.w., just happened to notice, this is my 1,206th c-Blog post. So if you're missing my usually-more-frequent-posting {see Temporary Hiatus for Big Project below}, feel free to check out a few previous highlights:

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I'm working on a multimedia art/reality project that will consume my every waking moment for the next several weeks. I'll reveal more when it's done. Until then, please bear with my silence; and check back here around the end of September! I promise, I shall return! With good stuff! (And if you live in Dallas and would like to help, pls contact me.) (And b.t.w., no, I don't believe the

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The artist sometimes known as George Quartz is a former Good/Bad Art Collective member and CentralTrak resident and shows at Cris Worley Gallery, and he also operates under the personas of La Maladie Tropicale and Jock Ewing.I find his "After Hours with George Quartz" operation very interesting (previously, briefly blogged here) – he does a live-taped, "talk show"/ performance art -type of work

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"Thousands of tweets erupted in a matter of hours on #Jul23 protesting the US's failed debt ceiling talks and general policies. Spurred by @JeffJarvis . Seen by some as part of #WorldRevolution or #USRevolution." More at Raw Story.Twitter capp'd the trend early on, but you can see how it's doing at trendsmap.com.A few samples:#f@ckyouwashington for sending our soldiers on 6, 7, 8 tours in

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. . . its intent – clear, for those who would see, in Oct., 2008 – that TARP funds would be used to bail out not only Goldman, but foreign investors et al.Results of the recent Fed audit showing that trillions went to foreign investors discussed here. Oct., 2008 c-Blog post warning that the TARP bill was designed to permit this here.

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("DU" meaning democraticunderground.com.)Report: Obama top recipient of [Murdoch's] News Corp. donations Political donations by News Corp., its employees and their families were evenly split between Democrats and Republicans, with President Obama the all-time leading recipient, according to a report from the Sunlight Foundation. (More at The Hill.)Cenk Uygur was removed due to "political

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Per TPM, "coder turned activist" Aaron Swartz has been arrested and charged with "breaking into MIT's network and using an automated program to download more than four million articles from JSTOR, an online database of academic journals maintained at MIT between late September 2010 and early January 2011."Swartz is the former executive director and founder of Demand Progress and co-founder of

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Stroom den Haag and NAIM / Bureau Europa are pleased to announce the opening of a new Time/Store in Maastricht, from July 17th though October 2, 2011.All across Europe, we are suddenly being told that we are too poor to afford culture, but we are not poor. Many of us are artists, writers, curators, teachers, filmmakers, designers, and architects, and we have knowledge and skills. We can

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If you think it's a coincidence that legislatures in multiple, Republican-controlled states have been passing bills aimed at busting unions, privatizing state property, "reforming" education, etc., think again. The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has pre-fabricated dozens of "model bills" that would benefit ALEC's global corporate funders at the expense of the rest of us, and ALEC

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Setting the record straight almost impossible * * * * *The effect of misinformation on memory and reasoning cannot be completely eliminated, even after it has been corrected numerous times, say Australian psychologists.Assistant Professor Ullrich Ecker and colleagues from The University of Western Australia outline their findings in a recent article published in Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.

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Wired has finally released the full, alleged Manning-Lamo chat logs, and as Glenn Greenwald points out, it seems clear that the portions previously withheld are by no means limited to personal info about Manning or matters of national security, as Wired had claimed. On the contrary, the logs show Lamo to be deceptive and unreliable, and more importantly, contain substantial exculpatory evidence,

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(1) "Who Are My Sycophants?"; and(2) "Of Whom Am I on the Brink of Becoming Categorized as a Sycophant?"

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Amazon.com currently has available four copies of Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness, and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier by Suelette Dreyfuss (1997). They do not mention that the book was written by Dreyfuss "with research by Julian Assange." The copies are all used paperbacks and are priced from $349.94.I could be wrong, but I thought I saw a downloadable copy somewhere on the '

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Looks interesting:Trespass: First a Parade, Then a Party* * * * *On Sunday, October 2, 2011 the streets of downtown Los Angeles will erupt in a parade of local artists and residents, complete with music, dancing and performance. The parade is the culmination of Trespass, a collaborative project between Arto Lindsay, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and West of Rome Public Art (WoR). They have commissioned 40

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I've been reading Hackers by Steven Levy (1984, 1994); 25th Anniversary edition here. The book recounts the seminal exploits of a relatively small number of nerds who, during the late 1950s through the early '80s, created the basic architecture of computer cognition and memory that we inhabit today.The meaning of the term, "hacker," has been hijacked since Levy's first edition was published.

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" . . . is a continuation of Kerbel’s interest in theatrical performance. There are no actors or sets; the dramaturgy and plot are portrayed solely through the various intensities, colours, light beams and directions of the stage lighting. The protagonist of the play is a spotlight that goes on an epic odyssey to abandon its serving role and be seen as a light in its own right instead." Part of

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First built in 1934, Buckminster Fuller's aerodynamically efficient vehicle could transport 11 passengers at 36 mpg.Norman Foster, who worked with Fuller before the latter's death and recently rebuilt the car, writes, “ . . . Fuller drew attention to the ecological issues of today when he referred to ‘spaceship earth’ and the fragility of the planet; as such, his work and observations are even

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You can see the final 5 and vote here. My 2 faves are neck-and-neck at the top. Here's one of them:

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Telecomix seems perhaps to be a subset of We Rebuild, or a term associated with certain news and other functions? Among other efforts, Telecomix worked to provide alternate communication channels during the Mubarek regime's shut-down of Egyptian internet access (see Egypt/Main Page).We Rebuild describes itself:We Rebuild is a decentralized cluster of net activists who have joined forces to

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To celebrate, here's some video of our galaxy edge-on, shot by a farmer/photographer in S. Dakota:

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Here's their embed-able, virtual version; roll over one of the bottom corners to take it to full-screen:

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. . . at length, at e-flux here and here.(Image: "Proposal for a Multi-Jurisdictional Logo: Can a visual presence be created, and dismantled, based on domains based in different jurisdictions, switching on and off? Courtesy of Metahaven.")An excerpt: Censorship is not only a helpful economic signal [i.e., if an organization is expending resources to suppress info, then it may be surmised that

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Just came across this:A Secular Humanist DeclarationIssued in 1980 by theCouncil for Democratic and Secular Humanism(now the Council for Secular Humanism) * * * * *Secular humanism is not a dogma or a creed. There are wide differences of opinion among secular humanists on many issues. Nevertheless, there is a loose consensus with respect to several propositions. We are apprehensive that modern

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at the ArtCenter (possibly the Art Center College in Pasadena, CA?), in a series of videos uploaded to YouTube in April, 2007.In the 4th vidi, the excerpt he reads from his first published article, "The Next Revolution and the Great Two-Faced American," referring to Pres. Lincoln, prompted me to wonder, do we not recognize some Machiavels because they happen to have been successfully benevolent?

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