31 December 2016

comedy as prophecy

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“Can a nation organized and governed such as ours endure? That is the real question. Have we the nerve and the will? Can we carry throug...
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20 December 2016

The Juggalo President

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Justin Trudeau's airplane The "return of the repressed" is of course a "bad" (read: "regressive"...
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5 November 2016

coming community

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He continued down a list of narrow additions to his consortium of what might be called life-style Republicans: “The Uber driver. The ...
22 October 2016

Back in Alt Sachsenhausen

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 "We had weeks and weeks of meetings with these men and she totally unnerved them because she knitted all the way through. It was ...
6 October 2016

Coal Rolling

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"A principal speculation of the medical experts in this era was that the masculine “will” or “instinct” to reproduce had been someh...
22 September 2016

"We can’t allow our problems to stop us from dreaming"

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"Plato was about to Strike his Servant, and while his hand was in the Ayr, he checkt himself, but still held it in that Menacing P...
8 September 2016

The Frosted Curtain

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“Because New York City, the main target of the terrorists, is the nation’s arts center, the impact of September 11 on artists and cul...
25 August 2016

Cave Youth

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 How he sees himself, and by association the artist, anywhere, anytime, is part of the mystery of his late works, and can only be disen...
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3 June 2016

This represents not simply a process of social conditioning; it normalises those incestuous corporate relationships that are part of the web infrastructure. It neutralises our ability to find alternative communication routes beyond the restrictive realms of Facebook/Twitter/Microsoft etc. It dulls our critical capacities to be able to mediate the relationships between corporate and public space. To be able to think critically and creatively beyond the insular and asocial boundaries of neoliberal social space.

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Subject: Your Response From Liberté - 2016/05/31-1639CA info@liberte.ca Jun 1 (1 day ago) to me Dear Mr. Knowles Eddy Knowles,

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29 May 2016

Apotropaic images

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"But what of those more intangible aspects of the New World—the inscrutability of Native American religious practices, for instance...
2 May 2016

A female artist wrote to me in an email about her experience, five years ago in New York, of “dorky, angry white guys streaming down from Columbia University, immigrating back from their stint at Staedl,” “circle jerking each other to the tune of French theory” and “giggling about 4chan.”

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Where was the woman who said she'd come. She said she would come. Erdedy thought she'd have come by now. He sat and thought. ...
27 April 2016

Keys

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Joker Of all human nudity — and there's no other kind of nudity — the penis is the only part that reveals more than, or something...
23 April 2016

Metallic Luther

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     She drove on downtown, being extra careful because she felt like doing harm to somebody, found a liquor store with a big Checks ...
24 March 2016

Robbie just did not have a passion for labels

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        In November 2002, then immigration minister Denis Coderre put forward a recommendation for a national debate on the issue of ide...
10 March 2016

TIL That Joseph Stalin signed his name on documents in red crayon

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8 March 2016

Unsubscribing from Akimbo

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aborted proposal for a public art commission in Mississauga, © 2015 I am drifting, adrift. No matter how much we talk about drift...
2 March 2016

Rankin Family

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"More than ever today, nature has become inseparable from culture; and if we are to understand the interactions between ecosy...
1 March 2016

Spa

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My point isn't to split hairs around definition and semantics but rather to underscore the emerging buzz around social practice art....