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deinfidel: Step-by-step DIY guide to making your own bound book here!
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The eminent University of Chicago anthropologist Marshall Sahlins resigned from the National Academy of Sciences on Friday, citing his objections to its military partnerships and to its electing as a member Napoleon Chagnon, a long-controversial anthropologist who is back in the news thanks to the publication of his new book, Noble Savages. Meanwhile, in anthropology,…
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ladyaches: abaldwin360: PBS Documentary Looks at Right-Wing Promotion of Ignorance Through Textbooks. (Sierra Voices) – Texas textbooks determine what children learn nationwide. “I believe that dinosaurs were on Noah’s Ark … somebody’s got to stand up to these experts.” (Don McElroy, former member of the Texas State Board of Education). source Well, no wonder the…
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Solid C2 Chair. Designed by Patrick Jouin, 2004. Museum purchase from the Members’ Acquisitions Fund. 2009-8-1. Printing Furniture Posted by Cara McCarty on Tuesday December 04, 2012 “Stereolithography has enabled us to…imagine, on an industrial level, a new freedom of creation, which would notably emancipate us from the limitations of molds.”[1] Patrick Jouin Rarely can…
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theleoisallinthemind: Albrecht Dürer
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Francisco Dosamantes was one of many Mexican artists who considered art, and particularly printmaking, to be an instrument for social and political change. Born in Mexico City in 1911, Dosamantes began his formal artistic training at the age of fourteen at the Academy of San Carlos. At the Academy he studied both sculpture and painting,…
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One of the first objects to enthrall me in the Cooper-Hewitt collection was a small double portrait which I casually dismissed as “just another engraving.” When I learned that this meticulously detailed image of French inventor Joseph-Marie Jacquard (1752-1834) and the machine he created was, remarkably, a woven piece of fabric…I was hooked. It was…
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Woman’s shoulder mantle, Peru, 16th – 17th century. Cotton, silk, metallic yarns. Gift of John Pierpont Morgan. Andean woman’s mantle Posted by Elena Phipps on Thursday December 20, 2012 This beautiful cloth is a woman’s shoulder mantle, called a lliclla in the Quechua language of the Inca Empire, and was made during the colonial period…
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AnB8MuQ6DU decolonizingmedia: Decolonizing Media: “Manufacturing Consent” – Noam Chomsky and the Media [Full Documentary] Classic documentary on modern American ideological warfare, media and propaganda. Essential viewing. Decolonize your mind. (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
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janehu: In broad strokes, we may note that key elements of the good academic life for (aspiring) politically-engaged/minority discourse practitioners includes the belief that knowledge work is related to and can transform the world at large. So clearly and so long has education participated in social stratification, and so formative to the contemporary have been…