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Aboriginal Musicians ‘Band’ Together To Expose Oppression
Aboriginal Musicians ‘Band’ Together To Expose Oppression npr: “The aboriginal rights movement in Australia parallels the American Indian movement in this country, with similar goals: land rights, self determination, cultural acceptance. There is also day-to-day discrimination. Morris says last year she performed at the Sydney Opera House, a crowning achievement for an Australian artist. She…
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Who Do You Write For? Our Survey of Art Critics in the Media Continues… | Blog | Frieze Publishing
Who Do You Write For? Our Survey of Art Critics in the Media Continues… | Blog | Frieze Publishing towerofsleep: In conjunction with frieze’s summer issue, which looks at art’s currency within the wider culture, we asked art critics and editors of cultural publications and media to tell us how they see the role of…
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Lessig Blog, v2: On the fight for liberty: July 4, 2012
Lessig Blog, v2: On the fight for liberty: July 4, 2012 lessig: Bassel by Joi Ito, on Flickr Today, in America, we celebrate the declaration of our independence from Britain. If you read the list of wrongs that led those Americans to “dissolve the bands” which tied them to their forebears, and contrast them to…
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My ongoing ocular migraine count. data gpoy (via DAYTUM)
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At a recent biotech conference in France I came across an exhibit by Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr showing a piece of ‘victimless meat’, a 3 cm disc of meat grown in a laboratory from cells removed from a living animal. Nothing had died to produce this piece of meat. It was a classic fusion of…
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becoming wave: ourcatastrophe: concerns about book fetishisation aside, I am actually…
becoming wave: ourcatastrophe: concerns about book fetishisation aside, I am actually… ourcatastrophe: concerns about book fetishisation aside, I am actually mostly in favour of large personal book collections. I have several hundred books on my shelves and another 200-odd at my parents’ house that I could reclaim if I wanted to. the house I grew…
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As independent bookstores crash and burn in the United States and Britain, the book market in France is doing just fine. France boasts 2,500 bookstores, and for every neighborhood bookstore that closes, another seems to open. From 2003 to 2011 book sales in France increased by 6.5 percent. The French Still Flock to Bookstores (via…
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Underpaid Genius: The World Is Burning
Underpaid Genius: The World Is Burning underpaidgenius: Bill McKibben says very well what a great number of climate observers are saying: the world is burning. While Colorado burns, Washington fiddles – Bill McKibben via the Guardian You ever wonder what global warming is going to look like? In its early stages, exactly like this. …
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Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and deprived of it we suffer a mental affliction as disfiguring as rickets. The space and quiet that idleness provides is a necessary condition for standing back from life and…