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"It is the carcass of a watch, in which there has come to reside, as if in the shell of a hermit crab, another being entirely." Grégoire Chamayou, Dec. 2014, Arforum
What policing suggestions would the actual Mother Jones have had?
Hey, here's a brilliant/fucking obvious idea: Put police substations in/at Bart stops: http://t.co/1f7v6gxTly
— Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) May 13, 2013
A WEAPONIZED URBANITY: MORNING DRIFT IN MILITARIZED DOWNTOWN OAKLAND — Conversation recorded with Demilit (Bryan Finoki, Nick Sowers, and Javier Arbona) in Oakland, on May 2, 2014.
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If Liz Diller tweeted with Christopher Hawthorne
Hawthorne: @Lizzer, have you been surprised by the intensity of the critical reaction so far?
Diller: @HawthorneLAT Been hard. Maybe not as hard as the demise of the Slow House. But harder for us than for @TWBTA.
H: @Lizzer What about the notion that you have a conflict of interest here?
D: lol We passed the threshold of losing our identity -- we propose a different approach now. @HawthorneLAT
H: @Lizzer Would you protest, say, plans to knock down your ICA museum in Boston five or ten years from now?
D: @HawthorneLAT Irrelevant. Folk ='s idiosyncrasy.
H: @Lizzer, Wht abt idea that most successful or memorable museum buildings are deeply idiosyncratic? i.e. Stewart Gardner, Mario Ciampi BAM
D: @HawthorneLAT Those were great museums but moma now is more like a multiuse retail development that happens to have a worldclass collection.
H: @Lizzer would you have liked more time to work on this scheme b4 it went public this way?
D: @HawthorneLAT Look, at an eventual 30 or 40 bucks per person 4 moma, who cares? We r there to clean up.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-elizabeth-diller-defends-demolition-of-folk-art-building-20140115,0,3562033.story#axzz2qhjjAwZb
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"Latino Urbanism" new term for me. I like it! Use Cultural Flavor to drive economic development! #urbanstreet #latinourbanforum
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“One Big Greenhouse,” Time, 1956.
Time magazine, May 28, 1956 “One Big Greenhouse” Since the start of the industrial revolution, mankind has been burning fossil fuel (coal, oil, etc.) and adding its carbon to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide. In 50 years or so this process, says Director Roger Revelle of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, may have a violent effect on the earth’s climate. The temperature of the earth’s surface depends largely on two minor constituents of the atmosphere: water vapor and carbon dioxide. They are transparent to the short-wave energy (light and near infrared) that comes from the sun, but opaque to most of the long-wave heat radiation that tries to return to space. This “greenhouse effect” traps heat and makes the earth’s surface considerably warmer than it would be if the atmosphere had no water vapor or carbon dioxide in it. An increase in either constituent would make it warmer still. Warm eras in the geological past may have been caused by CO2 from volcanoes. At present the atmosphere contains 2.35 trillion tons of carbon dioxide, existing in equilibrium with living plants and sea water (which tends to dissolve it). Up to 1860, man’s fires added only about 500 million tons per year, and the atmosphere had no trouble in getting rid of this small amount. But each year more furnaces and engines poured CO2 into the atmosphere. In 1900, the amount was 3 billion tons. By 1950, it was 9 billion tons. By 2010, if present trends continue, 47 billion tons of carbon dioxide will enter the air each year. [actual @37 billion tons] This will be only 2% of the total carbon dioxide, but if it is more than can be dissolved by the oceans or absorbed by plants or minerals, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere will tend to increase. The greenhouse effect will be intensified. Some scientists believe that this is the cause of recent warming of the earth’s climate. Dr. Revelle has his doubts. In the future, if the blanket of CO2 produces a temperature rise of only one or two degrees, a chain of secondary effects may come into play. As the air gets warmer, sea water will get warmer too, and CO2 dissolved in it will return to the atmosphere. More water will evaporate from the warm ocean, and this will increase the greenhouse effect of the CO2. Each effect will reinforce the other, possibly raising the temperature enough to melt the icecaps of Antarctica and Greenland, which would flood the earth’s coastal lands. Dr. Revelle has not reached the stage of warning against this catastrophe, but he and other geophysicists intend to keep watching and recording. During the International Geophysical Year (1957-58), teams of scientists will take inventory of the earth’s CO2 and observe how it shifts between air and sea. They will try to find out whether the CO2 blanket has been growing thicker, and what the effect has been. When all their data have been studied, they may be able to predict whether man’s factory chimneys and auto exhausts will eventually cause salt water to flow in the streets of New York and London.
A few days ago I posted this tweet:
A lazy blackface paint job but dressed in some kind of tribal caveman costume, for 4th of July, as you do, of course. j.mp/PX7NfP
— Al Javieera (@AlJavieera) July 14, 2012
I have no idea what was going through the woman's mind when she created that outfit, which in my opinion bordered on blackface. The face painting, nonetheless, was not covering all her face. In any case, for the record, the photographer who captured the costumed person contacted me via email with the following, and we have since then chatted a bit more about the photo and what may or may not be a suitable response to this kind of situation. This is posted with his permission...
Hello,
I just noticed that you tweeted/linked to one of my 4th of July photos recently with the comment, "A lazy blackface paint job but dressed in some kind of tribal caveman costume, for 4th of July, as you do, of course." that I thought worth following up on.
I believe the reason the black face looked so lazy to you was that it wasn't black face. To me and I believe most, it is clearly and strictly a caveman reference with no other meaning implied or likely to be inferred.
While negative racial stereotyping is no doubt a subject worthy of vigilance, I don't believe this person's costume even accidentally conveys that meaning (well, it's probably stereotyping cavemen, but I hope that's a safe subject by now).
The neighborhood where this takes place is the Northside neighborhood of Cincinnati. It has for a long time been known as the most progressive, racially and economically mixed, and socially-inclusive neighborhood in the city. I assure you that any parade entry that involved racial stereotyping would not be welcome.
Additionally a fair number of the parade entries make no reference to traditional nationalist imagery or themes, including... Pirates http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcnelson/7535663638/in/set-72157630449533518 The 1% http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcnelson/7535661450/in/set-72157630449533518 dancing bananas http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcnelson/7535651272/in/set-72157630449533518 these people http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcnelson/7535658150/in/set-72157630449533518/ and whatever this thing is... http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcnelson/4775720801/in/set-72157624420364276
I took the time to write this email to clarify the situation, that I may improve your hopes for humanity by even a scintilla. best, adam.