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occultural studies blog By Eugene Thacker 27 March 2012 Travelling to the outer reaches of vocal performance, a recent event featuring noise artists Junko and Keiji Haino opened up the anti-political space ... Artistic actions outside the gallery may vary widely in their approach to social space as material, but, as Sophie Schasiepen argues in this r...
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The Nation
April 3, 2012 Progressives adore her. Conservatives despise her. But it's Massachusetts' fickle independents who'll decide her high-stakes showdown with Scott Brown.The U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI, and the grand jury of Seminole County, Florida, announced investigations into the death of Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old African American who was shot by neighborhood-watch captain George Zimmerman on February 26 in the city of Sanford. Local police had declined to arrest Zimmerman, on the basis of Florida’s Stand Your Ground law, which permits citizens to use deadly force if they feel threatened, but audio recordings of Zimmerman’s calls to 911 revealed that he chased the unarmed Martin when the teenager ran from him. “These assholes,” Zimmerman told the dispatcher. “They always get away.” [1] [2] The New Black Panther Party offered a $10,000 bounty for Zimmerman’s capture, and protesters donned hooded sweatshirts in response to comments by FOX News host Geraldo Rivera, who claimed that Martin’s hoodie was responsible for his death.
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Table of Contents - Magazine - The Atlantic
The left hates him. The right hates him even more. But Ben Bernanke saved the economy—and has navigated masterfully through the most trying of times.
Blueprint Magazine - Architecture & Design
As a practice that prides itself on impacting on, but also extending beyond, architecture, the Dutch practice UNStudio has long had a resolute approach to the architectural discipline that stressed the importance of research and testing. What started as an art historian-architect collaboration between Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos 24 years ago has eloquently morphed into [...] Aside from hardline left-wingers, no one would probably claim wholeheartedly that the failure of the big banks and massive bailouts in 2008 that led to rising unemployment, among other things, was a good thing. Can failure ever be for the good?
We are no longer so excited as formerly by the account of trips on the surface … The mind is stretched, uncomfortably sometimes, but with a new fascination, to speed and profundity, to the thought of worlds that lie a million light-years away from us, to the worlds that recede in evolutionary time beneath the lens, to the thought even that they merge or that by some extraordinary trick of relativity the smaller may contain the large. There is an affinity between the telescope and the microscope, between the discovery of stellar space and the discovery of the atom. 1 Watson-Baker’s book on microphotography appeared as the second of two volumes inaugurating a new series launched by The Studio publishing house under the rubric of “The New Vision.”
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Dissent Magazine
photo by Christopher Connell, 2009, Flickr creative commons “Comprehensive reform of the juvenile and criminal justice systems, including our misbegotten ‘war on drugs,’ is a must,” writes Peter Edelman. “Dire as it is, though, the cradle-to-prison pipeline is comparatively narrow. There is a wider pipeline yet. I call it the cradle-to-nowhere pipeline.” To address it, the United States must invest far more resources in vocational education and community colleges than it currently does. Read
As a structural engineer, I really enjoyed finding Blueprint Magazine - thank you! I live in Southern California, right on the San Andreas Fault so I think you can imagine the importance of good architectural design combined with proper International Building Code requirements comparing wind and seismic to protect the design. by lqguitarist Apr 6