November 2010
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GODDAMN →
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“The Klingon language edition of the Wikipedia is no longer hosted by Wikimedia and is now hosted by Wikia as Klingon Wiki. There is more on the history of the Klingon Wikipedia.”
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In honor of today’s NYT WikiLeaks cables extravaganza, some less depressing state secrets:
For decades in art circles it was either a rumour or a joke, but now it is confirmed as a fact. The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a weapon in the Cold...
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Richard: I noticed in the show at MoMA that in the knife piece—it’s Rhythm 10, I think—the documentation is just a scratched-out print. Did you realize the importance of documentation from the beginning? There were early pieces that weren’t documented. In the beginning, when we started doing this conceptual and performance work, the idea was that we should not document at all—that the...
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Spalding Gray Archives Acquired by University of... →
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While we’re kind of on the subject: this list of microstates provides endless enjoyment, in my opinion. My favorite is Kiribati; I really like their flag, and they speak Gilbertese.
So there was a US law about bird droppings that somehow proves important for thinking about the law of sovereignty?
Indeed. The Guano Islands Act of 1856 arguably laid the legal groundwork for American imperialism.
The latest issue of Cabinet is about islands. This interview, online here, with Christina Duffy Burnett, online here, is about laws as they pertain to islands and how the U.S....
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