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April 9 is traditionally a day to remember the victims. It is distasteful and disrespectful to the memory of Colombia´s victims, the murdered, the disappeared, and the kidnapped, to turn the date into a day for politics. On April 9, 1948, the great Liberal Jorge Eliecer Gaitan was murdered sparking a near revolutionary force that…
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Rhizome | Xul Solar’s Possible Futures
Rhizome | Xul Solar’s Possible Futures warrenellis: “Only collective inventions have any real value, Xul Solar once told his close friend and fellow Porteño Jorge Luis Borges, trying to convince him (unsuccessfully) to write in Neo-Criollo, one of the two languages he had invented and the one he himself preferred to use for writing and…
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1. Be Kind. If this is the one thing I manage to do, I’ve done enough. Kindness may seem like a personality trait, but I think of it more as a habitual spiritual practice. Being kind has taught me that simple, seemingly insignificant human interactions can be profound. It has opened people and their stories…
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williamlmoore: it was really cold and i only lasted from about 10 until about 1. here’s to better weather next year.
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williamlmoore: Hanging out for Silas Soule2013 hang out
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yourplasticbag: DIS read this essay by Nick Faust in Dis
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Maps of “The map is not the territory.”
whaamblr: The only thing is that the map… ..the map is not the territory ——Sam. John Frankenheimer: “Ronin” (1998) It is nevertheless the map that precedes the territory – precession of simulacra – that engenders the territory. ——Jean Baudrillard: “Simulacres et simulation” (1981) We say the map is different from the territory. But what is…
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I began to … keep my eyes open while walking around in my daily life. Bits and pieces of reality, bits and pieces of something that could be cobbled into the arena I need this character to have, some sort of agency. And the pieces I came up with were just the sight of kids…
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jtotheizzoe: Mathematical Films of Manfred Mohr Just stumbled across this collection of digital math and geometry films created by pioneering digital artist Manfred Mohr in the early 1970’s. This stuff puts most modern GIF artists to shame, and he made them in Fortran IV on a CDC 6400, which is considerably less powerful than Photoshop.…