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When I speak of poetry I am not thinking of it as a genre. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality. So poetry becomes a philosophy to guide a man throughout his life…. [With poetry, one] is capable of going beyond the limitations of coherent logic, and conveying…
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thinksquad: http://www.wearedorothy.com/artwork/casualties-of-war/
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Drug-buying robot arrested in Switzerland
Drug-buying robot arrested in Switzerland underfrillies: laughterkey: The bot that bought ecstasy pills and forged passports has been seized by authorities. Free him
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redhousecanada: archiemcphee: This mesmerizing video, produced by tetotetote, introduces us to Yasuo Okazaki, an artisan working in Sendai, Japan who transforms spinning blocks of wood into exquisitely beautiful Kokeshi dolls, a 400-year-old Japanese artistic tradition. Traditional Kokeshi dolls are entirely handmade and have an enlarged head that sits atop a simple, cylindrical trunk with no…
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The Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt: Finally, the Museum of the Future Is Here – The Atlantic
The Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt: Finally, the Museum of the Future Is Here – The Atlantic …the Cooper Hewitt, the Smithsonian’s recently reopened design museum, will receive a giant pen…. at the museum, it does something magical. Next to every object on-display at the Cooper Hewitt is a small pattern that looks like the origin point…
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All social change is speculative fiction because we’ve never seen a world without poverty, never seen a world with total equality, never seen a world without prisons…therefore activism IS speculative fiction, it’s visionary fiction because we are writing a world we’ve never seen but a world we’d like to live in. It’s hard and unapologetic…
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bombmagazine: Coco Fusco, Observations of Predation in Humans: A Lecture by Dr. Zira, 2013, performance at the Studio Museum in Harlem, courtesy of Alexander Gray Associates.
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brucesterling: *Journalists killed 1992-2015. An interactive graph where you can query each red dot and get an account of the deceased. http://graphics.thomsonreuters.com/14/journalist-deaths/index.html