March 2011
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CONFERENCE FEVER
Mmm, the joy of conference paper titles, abstract and divorced from any real meaning. CAA has their game on tight:
Video Art as Prosthetic Memory
Richard Hamilton’s “Healthy Vigor:” Thanatopic Tumescence as Erotic Detumescence
Seduction Machine: The Libidinous Modernism of the Bachelor Pad
Dada’s Völkerpsychologie: Rethinking Primitivism in Zürich
Looks like so much fun I...
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SLEPT ON:
Rob Walker’s final Consumed column, in which he discusses “online projects devoted exclusively to lovely photographs of carefully arranged groups of objects”:
And then there’s the way this stuff is arranged. There’s certainly nothing naturalistic about it; these are practically inventories. It has become a cliché to talk of “curation” as the great skill of the ...
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NOTES FOR FUTURE RESEARCH
In 1951 he founded Landscape and was its editor and publisher until 1968. It expressed the vision of a philosopher-tourist and offered an idiosyncratic blend of history, urban planning, landscape architecture, geography, anthropology and historic preservation. Although its circulation never exceeded 3,000, Landscape was influential in establishing the notion of what Mr. Jackson called the...
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Carrington understood how the structure of the Kele language made drum language possible. Kele is a tonal language with two sharply distinct tones. Each syllable is either low or high. The drum language is spoken by a pair of drums with the same two tones. Each Kele word is spoken by the drums as a sequence of low and high beats. In passing from human Kele to drum language, all the...
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All three kinds appear among the new books about the Internet: call them the Never-Betters, the Better-Nevers, and the Ever-Wasers. The Never-Betters believe that we’re on the brink of a new utopia, where information will be free and democratic, news will be made from the bottom up, love will reign, and cookies will bake themselves. The Better-Nevers think that we would have been better off...
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