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Russell Bennetts and Legacy Russell, Glitch Feminism

Russell Bennetts and Legacy Russell, Glitch Feminism

Glitch Feminism is about modes of experimentation beginning online before entering the world. The house of gender needs to be dismantled…

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Lital Khaikin: To Justify Land #5

Lital Khaikin: To Justify Land #5

In Evgenii Zamyatin’s novel We, written in 1921, life unravels within the idyllic metropolis of the One State. The totality of its governance absorbs all within itself, and everything is joyously contributing…

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Shorebridge Portraits

Shorebridge Portraits

Since 2011, I have been making a series of portraits under a concrete railway bridge in Shoreditch, East London.

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‘post-truth / new year’s song’ by Legacy Russell

FACT: we have zero agency / FACT: whiteness is a super-pac / FACT: yes      as a feminist    i’ll still choose migos…

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Jeremy Woolsey on Tsuyoshi Ozawa

Jeremy Woolsey on Tsuyoshi Ozawa

At best, art movements in Japan lead back over and over again to the same spot in oblivion— one that prevents Japanese and Western art…

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Dying Fall

There’s an inexhaustible market for stories of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. They are firmly in the weave of heroic modernism, poster-children for a generation’s promise, achievement, excess, and tragic denouement in the wake of Zelda’s diagnosed schizophrenia and Scott’s alcoholism, fragile aging, and early death.

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Lital Khaikin: To Justify Land #4

The incestuous entanglements of the Ontario Hydro One Board of Directors reflects the absurdity of the corporatized regime under which the earth continues to be exploited under the motivations of ‘economic prosperity’.

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Digital Capital: Berfrois Interviews Kenneth Goldsmith

Digital Capital: Berfrois Interviews Kenneth Goldsmith

Painting reacted in a smart way to its crisis of representation and became something else. Writing didn’t…

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‘Austerity’ by John Perivolaris

‘Austerity’ by John Perivolaris

London, 1978 – 1980 and Austerity are two suites of photographs that bracket Perivolaris’ evolution as a photographer. They span two periods of austerity in the UK.

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Lital Khaikin: To Justify Land #3

Lital Khaikin: To Justify Land #3

In Southern Siberia, where the Sayan Mountains rise over the heavy chest of confluence of Central Asia, the Buryat peoples have told legends about the ancient lake Baikal and his beautiful daughter Angara.

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Primo Levi on Translating and Being Translated

Primo Levi on Translating and Being Translated

Genesis tells us that the first men had only one language: this made them so ambitious and powerful they began building a tower high into the sky.

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Lital Khaikin: To Justify Land #2

Lital Khaikin: To Justify Land #2

Lebreton and Chaudière from Parliament Hill, 1889. Collections Canada, PA-008351. by Lital Khaikin 2 — A gathering place where the remarkable occurs For the price of temporary, contractual benefits for private companies, the Asinabka islands are being transformed into another capitalist “Mecca”, from the congregational and spiritual centre they had been prior to their colonization…

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Who needs a perfect language?

Who needs a perfect language?

Poets, historians, scientists, philosophers – we all seek to capture the world in a net of language. Yet it is the nature of nets to capture some things while letting others slip away.

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Lital Khaikin: To Justify Land

Lital Khaikin: To Justify Land

On the ancient river, seagull rock crests out of the waters. An outcrop within its sight is thorned by a few young silhouettes, taking turns plunging into the river some feet below. Riverboats and water taxis, white river cruise-ships weave short and cyclical tours between the two shores.

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Justin E. H. Smith: The Search for Intelligent Life

Justin E. H. Smith: The Search for Intelligent Life

It is hard to read about SETI and more recent related projects looking for intelligent life in the stars without discerning in them certain silent presuppositions about what counts or should count as intelligent life on earth.

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Education in the Age of AI

Education in the Age of AI

There’s all this talk that robots will replace humans in the workplace, leaving us poor, redundant schmucks with nothing to do but embrace the glorious (yet terrifying) creative potential of opiates and ennui.

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Elisa Veini: Saving Valbona

A remote village on the Albanian alps that seemed an undisturbed paradise only a couple of years ago, Valbona is now a local hub of environmental activism.

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Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei: Albania is the Future of Europe

For seven years now I have lived in Albania. I have seen ambassadors and foreign representatives come and go. And they all, so they say, share this same ideal: to make Albania a better place.

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‘Generation Revolution’ by Rachel Aspden

‘Generation Revolution’ by Rachel Aspden

Amr had seen the news from Tunisia, where the dictator Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali’s twenty-one-year rule had just been swept away by protests, and read the Facebook calls for action in Egypt.

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‘For black boys [at night] on the internet’ by Legacy Russell

‘For black boys [at night] on the internet’ by Legacy Russell

Taking your place in cyberspace
An architecture meeting architect
Surveilling under the cymbals of surveillance

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