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For more than three thousand years, the Iñupiat people of Alaska have passed on stories to their children. Like all enduring fiction, the stories deliver truths that transcend cultural shifts. They act as seeds of moral instruction and help to define and preserve the community’s identity. The story of Kunuuksaayuka, for example, is a simple…
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Szymon Bojko | 1917–2014
ourrisd: Szymon Bojko, who brought his enormous love of art and life to RISD from 1984–2001, passed away on October 24, 2014 at age 97. He had been living in a nursing home outside of Warsaw, Poland for the past two years. Larger in spirit than his stature might suggest, the Polish scholar and art…
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kateoplis: Gabriel García Márquez’s archive, which contains manuscripts, notebooks, photo albums, correspondence and personal artifacts, including two Smith Corona typewriters and five Apple computers, is going to the University of Texas.
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historicallyaccuratesteve: maxistentialist: Maciej Cegłowski: In 1952, an American attaché in Moscow was innocently fiddling with his shortwave radio when he heard the voice of the American ambassador dictating letters in the Embassy, just a few buildings away. He immediately reported the incident, but though the Americans tore the walls out of the Ambassador’s office, they…
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historicallyaccuratesteve: maxistentialist: Maciej Cegłowski: In 1952, an American attaché in Moscow was innocently fiddling with his shortwave radio when he heard the voice of the American ambassador dictating letters in the Embassy, just a few buildings away. He immediately reported the incident, but though the Americans tore the walls out of the Ambassador’s office, they…
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Barthes goes so far as to define ideology as the process of colonization itself: the occupation, exploitation, incorporation, and hegemonic domination of meaning—by meaning. Chela Sandoval, Methodology of the Oppressed (via differentialmovement)
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Generation X is tired. It’s a parent now, and there’s always so damn much to do. Generation X wishes it had better health insurance and a deeper savings account. It wonders where its 30s went. It wonders if it still has time to catch up. Right now, Generation X just wants a beer and to…
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