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This is what it means to be an artist in capitalism. You might make any art you want about any number of things, talk and write critique all day, organize against it all night. But you are still forced to live in the midst of it. You can either let this destroy you, or you…
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It is in the narratives and the psalms. Beginning with the Exodus narrative and the Elijah narrative and the Jesus narrative, they are all storied about public transformation that happened by courage of uncredentialed people. These kinds of narratives feed our imagination and give us energy and courage. As the civil rights movement of the…
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Early in my freshman year, my dad asked me if there were lots of Latinos at school. I wanted to say, “Pa, I’m one of the only Latinos in most of my classes. The other brown faces I see mostly are the landscapers’. I think of you when I see them sweating in the morning…
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designboom: stained glass driverless sleeper car of the future by dominic wilcoxall photos by sylvain deleu sleep on the go in this autonomous vehicle designed for 2059.
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shoutsandmumbles: “Designing Service as One Way of Designing for Services” – Lucy Kimbell Lucy is pretty brilliant. If you ever get the chance to hear her speak, you should definitely go. I saw he speak at the Design Research Conference two years ago and she brought up this paper. It is interesting to see how…
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Most people who work in corporations or academia have witnessed something like the following: A number of engineers are sitting together in a room, bouncing ideas off each other. Out of the discussion emerges a new concept that seems promising. Then some laptop-wielding person in the corner, having performed a quick Google search, announces that…
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Revisiting the first Tiptree Award anthology
mostlysignssomeportents: It’s Banned Books Week, and what better way to celebrate than with a review of the first James Tiptree Award Anthology, published in 2004 by the committee who award the Tiptree each year for excellence in science fiction and fantasy that celebrates, explores and expands gender roles? Read more…
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Injustices may not be perceived as injustices, even by those who suffer them, until somebody invents a previously unplayed role. Only if somebody has a dream, a voice, and a voice to describe the dream, does what looked like nature look like culture, what looked like fate begin to look like a moral abomination. For…
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medievalpoc: Over 700 Jefferson County High School students are staging walkouts and protests over proposed changes to the Advanced Placement History curriculum. According to Colorado Public Radio: Last week, a school board member proposed that advanced placement history classes be required to promote free enterprise and patriotism and be required to avoid classroom materials that…
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We can liken drawing a comic to creating a miniature reality on the page, or, as Chris Ware has said, “dreaming on paper.” Let us consider the dream: is it autobiography or fiction? On the one hand, dreams are leaps of imagination, evidence of the plasticity of the information stored in your brain, recombining in…