that is what we do.

COLD BREW! Made with Heart Roaster’s Guatemala El...

Wed, 23 May 2012 10:01:07 -0500

COLD BREW! Made with Heart Roaster’s Guatemala El Limonar beans.

The Origins of Futurism

Sun, 20 May 2012 15:27:33 -0500

Of the 5 ways of forecasting the future, this one is perhaps the most emotionally dangerous:

The third method, historical analogy, is radically inaccurate yet also dangerously seductive, because people are profoundly attached to the seeming stability of the past. In practice, though, our ideas of what has already happened are scarcely more solid than our predictions of tomorrow. If futurism is visionary, history is revisionary.

MONEY CREATES TASTE, 2007 by Jenny Holzer

Sun, 20 May 2012 14:06:16 -0500

MONEY CREATES TASTE, 2007

by Jenny Holzer

Artist Revital Cohen has hooked up a Heart-Lung Machine, a...

Thu, 10 May 2012 00:02:35 -0500

Artist Revital Cohen has hooked up a Heart-Lung Machine, a Dialysis Machine, an Infant Incubator, a Mechanical Ventilator and an Intraoperative Cell Salvage Machine into one continues loop, pumping artificial blood and oxygen in a loop, “breathing” in a closed circuit. It is The Immortal. Salted water it its blood, minerals are filtered in and out, its “heart” beats electric, the “body” hums. It’s a perpetual life-support machine, and there’s something grisly sterile about this “life.” “Superhuman,” Group Show, Jul 19 – Oct 16, Wellcome Collection, London

Photo

Tue, 08 May 2012 13:10:21 -0500

nevver: Yes what happened to the future?

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 14:05:26 -0500

nevver:

Yes

what happened to the future?

"Facts is survived by two brothers, Rumor and Innuendo, and a sister, Emphatic Assertion. Services..."

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:28:42 -0500

“Facts is survived by two brothers, Rumor and Innuendo, and a sister, Emphatic Assertion. Services are alleged to be private. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that mourners make a donation to their favorite super PAC.”

- from Rex W. Huppke’s obituary of Facts (360 B.C.-A.D. 2012). (via washingtonpoststyle)

tyleroakley: Caine’s Arcade: A 9 year old boy who built an...

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:49:43 -0500

tyleroakley:

Caine’s Arcade: A 9 year old boy who built an elaborate cardboard arcade in his dad’s used auto parts store is about to have the best day of his life.

Excuse me while I violently sob while watching this.

blaaargh: Stanley Tigerman, The Titanic, 1978 “Stanley...

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 20:20:05 -0500

blaaargh:

Stanley Tigerman, The Titanic, 1978

“Stanley Tigerman’s conceptual collage depicts Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s iconic Crown Hall for the Illinois Institute of Technology—which houses the School of Architecture—sinking into Lake Michigan. Tigerman’s work is a critique on the state of architectural pedagogy in Chicago and its environs in the late 1970s. By this time, the Postmodern movement was becoming a viable counterpoint to Mies’s Minimalist aesthetic and was being taught at other schools of architecture in the United States.”

alecshao: Gillian Wearing - Signs that Say What You Want Them...

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:10:49 -0500

alecshao:

Gillian Wearing - Signs that Say What You Want Them to Say and Not Signs that Say What Someone Else Wants You to Say, 1992-1993

“By using photography to record the confessions of ordinary people, Wearing’s work explores the disparities between public and private life, between individual and collective experience. Signs that Say What You Want was produced by approaching people on London streets, asking them to write something on a card and then photographing them as they displayed it. Private lives were given a sudden and revealingly painful exposure.”

Via

I wonder what I’d write.

And I wonder what you’d write, too.

humanscalecities: Forty years after the release of the...

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 21:51:19 -0500

humanscalecities:

Forty years after the release of the groundbreaking study, were the concerns about overpopulation and the environment correct?

Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Looking-Back-on-the-Limits-of-Growth.html#ixzz1rCU6bepv

thebusinessofbusiness:

(via Looking Back on the Limits of Growth | Photo Gallery | Smithsonian.com)

Zebra Katz- Ima Read (ft. Njena Reddd Foxxx) This is jam is so...

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:52:18 -0500

Zebra Katz- Ima Read (ft. Njena Reddd Foxxx)

This is jam is so thick. Let’s hope Grimes and Zebra Katz collaborate.

nevver: What we’re reading

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:01:34 -0500

nevver:

What we’re reading

theeconomist: KAL’s cartoon: this week, a patient.

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:54:58 -0500

theeconomist:

KAL’s cartoon: this week, a patient.

laughingsquid: The Art of Living

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:04:45 -0600

laughingsquid:

The Art of Living

rethinksocialism: joemccarthyblues: brosephstalin: joemccarthy...

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 23:16:33 -0600

rethinksocialism:

joemccarthyblues:

brosephstalin:

joemccarthyblues:

sinidentidades:

sinidentidades:

First as Tragedy, Then as Farce: Cultural Capitalism as presented by Slavoj Zizek

Watch this before sending me death threats about my criticism of “humanitarian” organizations.

Okay in this case I feel there is something to see here but it veers dangerously into the land of Ayn Rands condemnation of altruism. Altruism is a natural human instinct and it should be embraced no matter how counter revolutionary it is. The act of giving money to a homeless person you see directly on the street is one motivated by human kindness, morality and empathy for all human beings. To say that you will refuse to adopt this virtue because it feeds into capitalism is absurd.

The criticism of conspicuous humanitarian consumption is spot on, we reach a dangerous area where once consumption and alleviation of guilt is intertwined, we no longer feel the need to be directly charitable, only to consume.

However, the direct forms of charity to the poor are an alleviation of human suffering and if that makes them less motivated to overthrow capitalism, so be it! I’ll be damned to look a homeless person in the eye and not give him a little bit of money if I can. Because frankly, these persons lives are worth more than any system you propose, with no guarantee of saving them

Donating to large bueracracies who have no clue what they are doing in Africa is one thing. But to claim that it is moral to act in financial altruism to your fellow man standing right in front of you is delusional, reminding us how close that orthodox marxism is with objectivist capitalism. 2 sides of the same “rational” materialistic coin sometimes.

He does say that it’s better than nothing right now. He doesn’t simply advocate a complete end to it all. I think on balance it’s a good critique

I felt that he was half hearted when he ended by saying that charity is not necessarily evil. I need not hear him spout the liberal social orders lines about how cutting a check to the red cross is the most humane thing anyone can do. He lost me when he said that direct charity to the poor is worse for them because it may allow them to live longer.

Zizek seems to be of the Marxist school where class war is the most important thing in the world and that if conditions must worsen before class war begins, then it is fine because the end result will be the salvation of mankind. I take a complete opposite position here because if conditions have to worsen one bit to guarantee Marxism in the future then I will not support it. I would much rather reform the current system that is in shambles if Marxism means the poor must suffer and die in the streets first to provoke a class war.

I don’t think Zizek believes conditions must worsen before class war begins at all. He realizes that it’s already being waged, and that this “Cultural Capitalism” is a tool that the ruling class uses to proliferate the image of some humanity lying dormant deep within capitalism. Not that charity is concretely immoral, but that one must realize in the abstract sense, that charity is by no means a solution to the problems created by capitalism. It’s a cloak.

I donate to charities when I can, but I realize that in doing so I cannot ignore the bigger picture — what truly creates these problems.

Career Plans Are Dangerous - Leonard A. Schlesinger, Charles F. Kiefer, and Paul B. Brown - Harvard Business Review

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:10:34 -0600

Career Plans Are Dangerous - Leonard A. Schlesinger, Charles F. Kiefer, and Paul B. Brown - Harvard Business Review:

A new way of thinking about the future and work.

zboyszoo: Eromenos( ἐρστής ) mata Erastes( ἐραστής ). Sempre.

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:41:26 -0600

zboyszoo:

Eromenos( ἐρστής ) mata Erastes( ἐραστής ). Sempre.

sum1: Real anarchists wear hats. bradicalmang: Photographs...

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 17:39:51 -0600

sum1:

Real anarchists wear hats.

bradicalmang:

Photographs of a large anarchist rally in union Square, New York City, with Alexander Berkman addressing the crowd, on 11 July 1914.

Over 5,000 people attended the mass memorial meeting called by the Anti-Militarist League for Berg, Hanson, and Caron, the three anarchists killed in the Lexington Avenue explosion. Over 800 policemen monitored the meeting, while Berkman, Abbott, Edelsohn, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Carlo Tresca, David Sullivan and Charles Plunkett all spoke for their dead comrades.1

absurdlakefront: Ssion - My Love Grows in the Dark New official...

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 15:38:16 -0600

absurdlakefront:

Ssion - My Love Grows in the Dark

New official video!