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uwmspeccoll: Book/Not Book This week we showcase a new acquisition: Peter and Donna Thomas‘s presentation of Naomi Shihab Nye‘s poem Sometimes I Pretend, produced with rainbow-roll printed wood type and paper-pulp printed images on handmade paper in an edition of 35 copies signed by the artists. The work is presented as a double-sided scroll housed…
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Scientists are very much entangled in their culture, and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices. Bruno Latour (via a-garden-of-forking-paths)
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But America is different. America is violent. America was founded upon violence, it is addicted to violence, it sanctifies the capacity for violence. The twin original sins of America — indigenous genocide and African slavery — have still not been fully owned and confessed. (Government genocide against Native Americans is virtually never mentioned — mostly…
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Impressive work by Honduran artist Lester Rodriguez at the Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporaneo, San José, Costa Rica.
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neuromaencer: i don’t like what i’m becoming (2014) installation by benjamin moravec
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Reading John Sharp’s Works of Game.
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blech: Russell Davies: Brutal: Went to see The Brutalist Playground at RIBA. You can imagine what I was imagining. Lots of drawings and information and small type and long words about council estates and and architecture and play. Well, I couldn’t have been more wrong. All there seems to be, in fact, is some brutalist…
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nevver: Magnificent Ruin
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swannepoel: ‘OITNB’ Actress Speaks Out About Family’s Deportation “I was coming home from school […] and I got home and their cars were there and dinner was started and the lights were on but I couldn’t find them.Then the neighbors came in. They were just like ‘I’m sorry but your parents were taken away.’ […]…
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The Confederate flag’s defenders often claim it represents “heritage not hate.” I agree—the heritage of White Supremacy was not so much birthed by hate as by the impulse toward plunder. Dylann Roof plundered nine different bodies last night, plundered nine different families of an original member, plundered nine different communities of a singular member. An…