Category Archives: General Features

On Small Town Gay Bar

Posted on 05/16/2013 by

Small Town Gay Bar is a film by Malcolm Ingram about gay bars in the American South. Specifically, it is about Mississippi, but there’s nothing particularly unique about the location–the content of the documentary could be about anywhere in the South. … Continue reading →

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Leopold Lambert on Architecture and Occupation

Posted on 05/15/2013 by

Occupation is a second way that architecture is used to serve military purposes. Of course one could think of the Roman Legion’s settlement and some other temporary military structures; nevertheless, it seems more interesting here to understand the word military … Continue reading →

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Frank Castle on Fighting

Posted on 05/13/2013 by

Fighting for the people who run the world gets you stabbed in the back. You fight the wars they start and feed. You kill the monsters they create. You die from handling depleted uranium while they get rich on oil. … Continue reading →

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Rasmussen on Architecture and History

Posted on 05/07/2013 by

Thus, in the Spanish Steps we can see a petrification of the dancing rhythm of a period of gallantry; it gives us an inkling of something that was, something our generation will never know. Rasmussen, Experiencing Architecture 136

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A List of Podcasts I Listen To

Posted on 05/06/2013 by

Podcasts are a thing that come up from time to time in conversation, and I always say something like “I like XYZ podcast, you should check it out!” We all know how that kind of talk goes, though, and without … Continue reading →

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Rasmussen and Architecture

Posted on 05/02/2013 by

A painter’s sketch is a purely personal document; his brush stroke is as individual as his handwriting; an imitation of it is a forgery. This is not true of architecture. The architect remains anonymously in the background. Here again he … Continue reading →

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Sam Biddle on Google Glass Evangelism

Posted on 04/30/2013 by

There’s no clear answer as to why Scoble has hundreds of thousands of followers across Twitter and Facebook, given that he’s just a guy who works for a data hosting company. This isn’t one of the great minds of our … Continue reading →

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Parikka on Complicity With Anonymous Media

Posted on 04/25/2013 by

The archaeological method of  Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia represents a theory-fiction alternative for media archaeology too. What if we employ the same hallucinatory, inspiring way of investigating the subterranean, the secret, the ground that is not defined by stability but dynamic flux of sediments … Continue reading →

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Olof Dreijer on Ally Responsibility

Posted on 04/22/2013 by

We’ve been talking about the importance of making your privileges transparent in order to be able to say something political. It’s something I learned from reading about intersectionality, which is a way to analyze power by looking at its different … Continue reading →

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On Media Responsibility This Week

Posted on 04/19/2013 by

SEK wrote about Michelle Malkin-vehicle Twitchy over at Lawyers, Guns & Money.  A critical excerpt: [T]he site’s designed to facilitate irresponsibility. Despite all Malkin’s proud declarations about the importance of citizen journalists, in the end she’d rather hide, like the coward she is, … Continue reading →

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