June 2008
12 posts
Olafur Eliasson's "Waterfalls" opens in NYC... →
I wonder if Mayor Bloomberg agrees with Eliasson’s anti-capitalist interpretation of the project: “You could say that commercial space or commodified spaces are more about consuming or a systematized way of getting involved in a space. This is different. This is not about consuming space. This is about using a space to evaluate your relationship with it. That’s a whole different kind...
"Digester" by Susan Robb (2008) →
This is my kind of art - a campfire burning biogas emitted from barrels digesting the artist’s own shit. (Note that vvork.com imposes a conservative interpretation on this art by calling the shit “waste” - they neglect that the shit is being treated as a valuable resource for the production of heat, which could be used for cooking, light, and bathing, such as in this slum in...
"Report Sees Illegal Hiring Practices at Justice... →
- affirmative action for authoritarians.
The new Girl Talk album is downloadable for free... →
Market Madness: How Speculators are Manipulating &... →
By A.K. Gupta at ZMAG - (excerpt): “Any number of reasons has been put forth for rising commodity and food prices: diminishing inventories of grains, greater consumption of animal products in Asia, a growing global population, global warming, biofuels, natural limits, financial speculation, the falling dollar, escalating crude oil prices, World Bank and IMF policies, hoarding, export...
Sasha Frere-Jones of the New Yorker posted Keith's... →
See the hi-res version (and uncensored version) on Keith’s website here.
on the IWW Starbucks Workers Union - "The... →
"Inside Gate, India’s Good Life; Outside, the... →
Jecca and I are going to India in July for six weeks. This article about the extreme de facto segregation there sounds like an exaggerated version of the apartheid situation in America - vicious circles of economic and educational inequality, but with even less state-run social services. Similarly to here, class struggle is muted by the distracting co-optations of representative democracy.
Nas - "Black president" →
I'm facilitating an EXCO class this summer -... →
If you’re interested in “radical mapping” or “critical cartography,” check out some of the articles and links I’m compiling on this webpage for the Experimental College (EXCO) course.