Notes For Later

[thefeministme]

Women get essentially zero credit for the collaborative work with men. Papers written by women in collaboration with both a male and female co-author yield partial credit. It is only when women write with other women that they are given full credit. These differences are statistically significant.

When Teamwork Doesn’t Work for Women (via thefeministme)

[s-ounding-bored]

How many women artists have been erased from museums through pre-Instagram modes of re-appropriation: their works attributed to male colleagues in their studios, their mentors or their lovers or more visible friends. How many women only get into museums by being muses, and never the artist themselves?

“Here's What Happens When Some Yale Bro Steals Your Art” by Arabelle Sicardi with Tayler Smith, Jezebel

[s-ounding-bored]

A few weeks ago, the internet exploded with an amazing clip. Theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking was answering viewer questions for a live audience in Sydney, Australia. The male emcee posed a question submitted by the presumably female Samantha Su. “What do you think is the cosmological effect of Zayn leaving One Direction and consequently breaking the hearts of millions of girls across the world?” The emcee then added his own commentary, behaving as if he has no responsibility whatsoever to try to understand an enormous population — girls — who are clearly so confoundingly incomprehensible he has wholly discounted their contributions. “I haven’t a clue what that’s about,” he said. But Stephen Hawking, generous and clearly even more intelligent than I had already thought, answered, “Finally a question about something important. My advice to any heartbroken young girl is to pay close attention to the study of theoretical physics, because one day there may well be proof of multiple universes. It would not be beyond the realms of possibility that somewhere outside of our own universe lies a different universe. And in that universe, Zayn is still in One Direction.”

“There is Only One Direction,” Samantha Hunt for New York Magazine’s The Cut

[s-ounding-bored]

How to respond, then, to this now permanent condition of overproduction? With cheerful skepticism. With gratitude for those rare occasions when we come across a book that speaks to us personally. With forgiveness for those critics and publishers who induce us to waste our time with some literary flavor of the day. Absolutely without indignation, since none of this is anyone’s particular “fault.” Above all with a sense of wonder and curiosity at the general and implacable human determination... to fill endless space with dubious mental material when life is short and there are so many other things to be done.

Tim Parks, “Too Many Books?” (National Review of Books, 16 Apr 2015)

[s-ounding-bored]

“Privilege is not in and of itself bad; what matters is what we do with privilege. I want to live in a world where all women have access to education, and all women can earn PhD’s, if they so desire. Privilege does not have to be negative, but we have to share our resources and take direction about how to use our privilege in ways that empower those who lack it.”

Bell Hooks, Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism

[jarrettfuller]

Kanye West speaks at Oxford

Kanye West recently have a lecture at Oxford and it’s, of course, full of amazing quotes. I continue to be inspired by his focus, his message, and his drive. He’s a bit on individualism:

“We’re all creatives here, we’re all born artists. Some people are artists of business, some people are artists of composition.

“We were taught to hide our black fingernail polish and put our head down in the back of the class and not notice out of fear that someone might laugh at one of our ideas – that our idea could become a mockery or a failure in some way.

And a wonderful tangent on advertising, classism, and time:

We’ve been sold a concept of joy through advertising, through car advertising, through fashion branding. It’s not the concept of time, time with your family, time with your friends, the little time that we do have on earth and what we do with that. It was somehow sold to us through a Gucci bag or something.

Time is the only luxury. It’s the only thing you can’t get back. If you lose your luggage – I’m not gonna say the obvious brand of luggage that I’d normally say because I’ve got a meeting with them soon – if you lose your expensive luggage at the airport, you can get that back. You can’t get the time back.

It feels like people do everything in life to get this BMW, this Benz, to get this townhome, to get 2.5 kids exactly. One of them has to be small, y’know!

And you’re looking for this moment where you sit in your BMW after all the work you’ve done and all the accolades you get, and you somehow think you’re gonna get that level of joy that my daughter had when she received those wolves. And when you’re sitting in traffic in your BMW, it’s something that feels empty.

[heidisaman]

Do not whine… Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Joan Didion, Blue Nights   (via supmariss)

[s-ounding-bored]

I like working at night when the world is quiet and all the residual energy is loose and flowing around in the atmosphere because most people are asleep and not gobbling it all up.

David Barnes, of Montreal art director (It's Nice That)

Please note I posted this at 3:14 AM.

[p-dpa]

Publishing then is a set of intersecting processes. The plural is crucial. Definitions of publishing as publication, gatekeeping, or commerce naturally tend to construe it as a singular process.

“Horizons of the Publishable: Publishing in/ as Literary Studies”, Rachel Malik (2008)

[s-ounding-bored]

The future, like the past, is in the real world, with real projects, self-initiated as well as by commission. Make the world you actually live in not the world you can imagine living in, a little bit better. An entrepreneurial, collaborative, nomadic, polymorphic, practice seems to be what will work best in the 21st century. Designers can shape their practice any way they choose. Make good choices.

— The Global Style, Revisited / A Conversation with Mr. Keely (2015)

[s-ounding-bored]

So called “speculative design” or “critical design” are in reality institutional projects that have little use or interest outside of the institutions that generate them. Whilst this crit room fodder can have a lot of pedagogical value in school, it is a mistake to presume as the fine artist does, that your particular brand of self-indulgent navel-gazing is something the rest of the world needs or wants.... Your fantasy praxis is the residue of privilege.

—The Global Style, Revisited / A Conversation with Mr. Keely (2015)

[s-ounding-bored]

... copying out a text, as opposed to merely reading it, modifies our soul and reveals hidden aspects of our inner self.

—“An Investigation Into the Reappearance of Walter Benjamin” by Adam Leith Gollner (Penguin Random House)

[s-ounding-bored]

On Book Fairs

"Books... are a cheap way to make both art and connections among artists, mechanical reproduction–style. Unlike painting or sculpture, though, they do not make money or fame... art books are a kind of extra-market phenomenon, providing direct contact between people without the art-world “problem” of money.” —Ben Mauk, No Sale (Paris Review, 2015)

[s-ounding-bored]

This is a dangerous moment for France, both in the frighteningly immediate sense—there are armed terrorists loose in the capital—and because the decisions that a nation makes at a time of terror are not always the best ones, for anybody. “L’amour: Plus fort que la haine,” as Charlie Hebdo put it years ago—and what makes that line meaningful, and not some trite filler of empty air in a shot-up office—is remembering who you are.

—Amy Davidson, The Attack on Charlie Hebdo (New Yorker, 2015)

[graphicboutique]

Jean Jullien

[newyorker]

“This was an attack on a publication and a neighborhood, a country and its press, and on any journalist, in any city.”

Amy Davidson on the shootings at Charlie Hebdo. (via newyorker)

It's also an attack on artists— cartoonists, illustrators, & graphic designers. We are all Charlie Hebdo. 

[andrewjacksonphotography]

Looking at the world behind glass

"Haphazardly snapping pictures may hamper how you remember those moments, according to a study published in Psychological Science. In the study, participants took a museum tour, observing some objects and snapping pics of others. Afterward, they had a harder time remembering the items they photographed compared with the ones they looked at.

“The lens is a veil in front of your eyes and we don’t realize it’s there,” says Diedra L. Clay, PsyD, chair and associate professor of the counseling and health psychology department at Bastyr University in Kenmore, Wash.ington”

More over on Time: http://time.com/3554741/bad-habits-mental-health/

[s-ounding-bored]

Slow looking, stand by.