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A point I am making in my dissertation, informed by the work of Indigenous legal theorists like John Borrows, Kahente Horn-Miller, Tracey Lindberg, and Val Napoleon, is that Indigenous thought is not just about social relations and philosophical anecdotes, as many an ethnography would suggest. These scholars have already shown that Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies…
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cinoh: youmightfindyourself: War rugs are now starting to feature Reaper and Predator drones in their motifs.
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Sophie Smallhorn (via the absolute ART blog…)
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When shirts cost $3,500
mostlysignssomeportents: An eye-popping parable about the benefits of automation: 200 years ago, it took 479 hours worth of labor to make a shirt (spinning, weaving, sewing), or $3,472.75 at $7.25/hour. It’s one thing to heart that the automatic loom brought about a huge economic boom, it’s another thing to contemplate just how difficult material objects…
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newyorker: In this video, Richard Brody discusses François Truffaut’s 1966 film “Fahrenheit 451”: As a futuristic science-fiction film, the project opens the door to abstractions—visual as well as intellectual—that had been remote from Truffaut’s earlier films. Critics and viewers didn’t forgive him for surprising them; the film remains audaciously surprising even now.
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cinoh: artspotting: Tibetan pattern book of proportions, Leaf 5 recto, (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles)
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If you’re of the opinion that [feminist] agenda doesn’t belong in games, then, I don’t know, read Gamespot. Gaming journalist and critic Leigh Alexander, speaking at this week’s Games Now! lecture event in Helsinki, responds to Gamergate members in the audience. (The exchange starts around 58:10): “The idea that someone can be objective when they’re…
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Gilberto Gil’s extraordinary engagement with Brazilians [2005]
mostlysignssomeportents: We arrived in the middle of a concert. Gil was asked to speak. As he went to the mic, the tent fell silent. Hundreds were packed into a tiny space. Gil began to describe the work of the Lula government to support free software, and free culture, when a debate broke out. I don’t…