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Open Letter to My Students: No, You Cannot be a Professor
Open Letter to My Students: No, You Cannot be a Professor austinkleon: A history professor’s reply to students who say to him, “I want to do what you do.” I know that some of your other professors are encouraging your dreams of an academic career. It is natural to turn to your professors for advice…
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(via 15 Awesome Photos Of Colombian Students Fighting Riot Police)
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This essay, made available here in English and Spanish, was written for the exhibition Transitio _MX 03, which took place in Mexico City in October 2009. The text was published in December 2010 in Errata, a Colombian journal dedicated to art and culture. The text explores the concept of non-places (which is the foundation of…
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The drug war is not a failure; rather it works perfectly for its intended purposes. It generates billions of dollars for government agencies at all levels, employing millions of people. It created and supports whole industries such as drug testing, and has enhanced the drug rehabilitation industry. The drug war also protects other industries such…
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The word technocrat can also refer to an advocate of a form of government in which experts preside. The notion of a technocracy remains mostly hypothetical, though some nations have been considered as such in the sense of being governed primarily by technical experts. Historian Walter A. McDougall argued that the Soviet Union was the…
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thenearsightedmonkey: During spring semester 2012 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Lynda Barry will be teaching a semester-long writing and picture making class using her favorite book on how to make comics by one her favorite cartoonists: Ivan Brunetti’s “Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice” Ivan Brunetti will visit Barry’s class and also give a public presentation about…
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It’s a win-win for Levine, in every way: The more money collectors come to pay for her precious bronzes, the better those works will come to stand for our abandonment of the true principles behind the original “Fountain”. The differences between her two versions point to Duchamp’s original embrace of swappable industrial objects, but those…
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kateoplis: These things should be simple: 1. When, as an adult, you come come across another adult raping a small child, you should a) do everything in your power to rescue that child from the rapist, b) call the police the moment it is practicable. 2. If your adult son calls you to tell you that he just saw another adult…
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Media Art Needs Global Networked Organisation & Support — International Declaration
emergentdigitalpractices: State of Affairs Digital technology has fundamentally changed the way art is made. Over the last forty years, Media Art has become a significant part of our networked information society. Although there are well-attended international festivals, collaborative research projects, exhibitions and database documentation resources, Media Art research is still marginal in universities, museums and…
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illillill: Duane Michals Found out last week that Duane Michals is an alum from the University of Denver.