September 2011
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August 2011
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WatchHow one provocative group of artists is urging Japan to confront its nuclear history.
WatchLast Moments Of Life (by Paul Kroeker)
WatchAdam Ostrow: After your final status update
July 2011
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M¢Lµhan’s Wake [Reposted from m0m via bytz]
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The Big Ideas podcast: The medium is the...
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“If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are...”
– Lao Tzu (via talkwiththedead, maluna, fuckyeahexistentialism)
June 2011
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Eternal Moments by Ana Pais →
In collaboration with André Tentugal and Christian Unterdechler
“What the Photograph reproduces to infinityhas occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats,what could never be repeated existentially.” Roland BarthesCamera Lucida: Reflections on Photography *All images were taken from the music video “Keep on Dancing” (X-wife) directed by André...
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“But how could we possibly explain anything? We operate only with things that do...”
– Frederich Nietzsche (via totrulyexist)
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WatchThere are twice as many suicides in the U.S. each year than murders. And yet the vast majority of them aren’t discussed at all. Unlike homicide, which is considered a fracturing of our social contract, suicide is considered a shameful problem whose victims — and solutions – are rarely the focus of wide debate. In this hour of Freakonomics Radio, we’ll push back suicide taboos, profiling who...
The New Inquiry: School's Out Forever →
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“Pledge of Allegiance” — a sketch from The Whitest Kids U’ Know
A review of John Marsh’s Class Dismissed: Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our Way Out of Inequality
By Malcolm Harris
At the core of contemporary liberal ideology is the idea that education, done right, could solve all…
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“I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.”
– Haruki Murakami
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“In the upside down world of feast-days the orgy occurs at the instant when the...”
– Erotism: Death and Sensuality, Georges Bataille
(via lamortdesamants, er-os)
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“For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone...”
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REGRETS OF THE DYING
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May 2011
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"If I die" →
How would you feel if you’re minding your own business, and then suddenly death calls you stating: “Death can catch you anywhere, even at the Organic” - while you’re at the Organic? Pretty wigged out, right? Those stalked by death took it well though, and the Facebook app that allows you to record a message only to be heard once you’re actually dead took off.
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Happy End of Times, everyone!