February 2012
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Identità Virtuali
We’ve talked here before about the changing typologies of objects thanks to revolutionary technologies that have made many separate objects obsolete (iFuture, iFatigue). We’ve talked about fine art and artisanal craft in the face of digital art’s low barriers to entry (Election Day / Every Day). We’ve even talked about quickening trend cycles and the impossible superficiality of pop culture in the...
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ListenThe RZA & Charles Bernstein - Cranewhite...
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January 2012
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The New French Hacker-Artist Underground →
By JON LACKMAN  l  Wired Jan.20, 2012 Thirty years ago, in the dead of night, a group of six Parisian teenagers pulled off what would prove to be a fateful theft. They met up at a small cafè near the Eiffel Tower to review their plans—again—before heading out into the dark. Lifting a grate from the street, they descended a ladder to a tunnel, an unlit concrete passageway carrying a cable...
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Download Junya Watanabe Autumn/Winter 2005 dress... →
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Are You What You Own?
Excerpt from: Deyan Sudjic, ‘Are You What You Own?’, Cult Objects, Paladin, London, 1985 Conspicuopus redundancy and the strange phenomenon of a driver’s watch. Why real men use Zippos, and when four-wheel drive is the only way to go shopping. Consider the Jeep for a moment. What is it about original 1942 specimen restored to mint condition, its drab olive paintwork retouched...
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“There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A...”
– “Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai”, 1999
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The Intimacies Of The Urban
Life in a city is permeated with peculiar, oft overlooked, intimacies with strangers. Take windows. As you walk through the city, you may casually glance up and see someone on the phone, a father playing with his kid, a family eating dinner, everyone everywhere watching tv. You might see someone wanking his willy but he’s probably doing that so you can see so that doesn’t really count. But...
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Sissel Tolaas →
I was breathing in the air and then I started thinking: Air cannot just be something abstract. It is out there so it must contain molecules and information. So what happens if I start to analyze the invisible? — Sissel Tolaas, Mono.Kultur #23 She calls herself a ‘professional in-betweener’, defying all supposed logic of what smells good and what doesn’t. She turns heads and captures noses...
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DD: What is it with Pawson and his aesthetic that works so well with Calvin Klein as a brand? Italo Zucchelli: We both find inspiration in solitude or in empty big natural spaces. There is also a link, in design terms, between us and John because it is about clothes that are inspired by timelessness and that are modern, that are about clever design, that are functional. We always talk about how...
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Sianne Ngai, on cuteness →
Aesthetics as a philosophical discipline was an invention of the Enlightenment, and appropriately enough, most of the historical discussion has focused on the beautiful and the sublime. However, as J. L. Austin noted in “A Plea for Excuses,” the classic problems are not always the best site for fieldwork in aesthetics: “If only we could forget for a while about the beautiful and get down instead...
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