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artnet: Remembering Sol LeWitt American artist Sol LeWitt was born on this day in 1928, in Hartford, Connecticut. LeWitt is widely regarded as one of the leaders of Minimalism and Conceptual art, known primarily for his deceptively simple geometric structures and architecturally scaled wall drawings. Coincidentally, Farrar, Straus and Giroux just announced that it has…
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Honduras deal sets stage for investors to build 3 privately run cities to host new industries
Honduras deal sets stage for investors to build 3 privately run cities to host new industries emergentfutures: Investors can begin construction in six months on three privately run cities in Honduras that will have their own police, laws, government and tax systems now that the government has signed a memorandum of agreement approving the project. …
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People who are used to being good at what they do get set impossible tasks by elders they look up to, and the students have their faces ground in their failures. Everything is designed to encourage self-doubt. This is not an accident. Graduate school is not just about teaching certain specific skills; it is about…
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A Night With William Gibson | csessums.com
A Night With William Gibson | csessums.com csessums: “One man’s dystopia is another man’s nice new neighborhood. ” As luck would have it, I have Distrust That Particular Flavor in my hand as I swipe across this post
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sister-in-law just posted an “all okay” message on facebook. the coast of five nations are on tsunami alert.
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big earthquake off coast of Costa Rica + tsunami alert. we can’t reach our family in San Jose.
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It was precisely this division that Gropius intended the Bauhaus to heal. “There is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman,” he declared in his 1919 manifesto. Dismissing both the old academy model and the new regimented design classroom, he concluded by appealing to the vision of the medieval guild: “There are no…
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laphamsquarterly: 1818: From Thomas Jefferson’s commissioner’s report for the University of Virginia: The objects of this primary education determine its character and limits. These objects would be: To give to every citizen the information he needs for the transaction of his own business. To enable him to calculate for himself, and to express and preserve his…
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Excuse me self-recrimination but I have to get to self-congratulation. #annual_report
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varanine: transceiverfreq: William Gibson just announced the title of his next fiction novel. The Peripheral Oh fuck yes. If the Sprawl trilogy was the Conjectural, Bridge the Interstitial and Blue Ant the Immediate, what new obsession does ‘the Peripheral’ imply?