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"One of the leading proponents of this view is the writer and journalist Leigh Phillips, whose book Austerity Ecology helped set the terms of the debate seven years ago."
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"For more than a decade, through snow and rain and fog, the workers poured that thick grey mixture day after day after day, and gradually a monolith began to rise between the mountains."
"For more than a decade, through snow and rain and fog, the workers poured that thick grey mixture day after day after day, and gradually a monolith began to rise between the mountains."
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>The radical, grand-scale textile sculptures of the late Polish artist are a sensory delight in this sensitively curated show "Anyone who has ever worked with wool, never mind actual weaving, will immediately understand how staggering _...Read More_
>The radical, grand-scale textile sculptures of the late Polish artist are a sensory delight in this sensitively curated show "Anyone who has ever worked with wool, never mind actual weaving, will immediately understand how staggering _...Read More_
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"By the time Samuel Johnson came to write his “Lives of the Poets,” in 1779-81, tastes had changed. In a neoclassical era, ideas still had a place in poetry, but they were supposed to be familiar ones, dignified by harmonious verse—“What _...Read More_
"By the time Samuel Johnson came to write his “Lives of the Poets,” in 1779-81, tastes had changed. In a neoclassical era, ideas still had a place in poetry, but they were supposed to be familiar ones, dignified by harmonious verse—“What _...Read More_
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“As the groundbreaking artist enters the canon, a new biographical comic situates her firmly in her own times.”
“As the groundbreaking artist enters the canon, a new biographical comic situates her firmly in her own times.”
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In my previous article, I argued that societies advance through four emo­tional regi­mes: from fear, to guilt, to shame, to Sklavenmoral (which, if the patt­­ern holds, is only truly becoming dominant in the most advan­ced mod­ern _...Read More_
In my previous article, I argued that societies advance through four emo­tional regi­mes: from fear, to guilt, to shame, to Sklavenmoral (which, if the patt­­ern holds, is only truly becoming dominant in the most advan­ced mod­ern _...Read More_
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"Sugar booger decor is sexy, black-lacquered, and here to shake us out of our COVID-era blues."
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>"The advances of science are resurrecting the religious imagination. Human history will end when men become gods — or dust. The alternative is an ecology of existence."
>"The advances of science are resurrecting the religious imagination. Human history will end when men become gods — or dust. The alternative is an ecology of existence."
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"Generally speaking, the world is a scary place right now. If it’s not the ongoing pandemic, then it’s the existential threat of nuclear war; mass surveillance, data harvesting, and the looming fear of technocracy. Online, big-picture _...Read More_
"Generally speaking, the world is a scary place right now. If it’s not the ongoing pandemic, then it’s the existential threat of nuclear war; mass surveillance, data harvesting, and the looming fear of technocracy. Online, big-picture _...Read More_
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A very interesting and excellent piece on how jobs have expanded in unsustainable ways.
A very interesting and excellent piece on how jobs have expanded in unsustainable ways.
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Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi asks: ‘Can humanity save itself from the murderous violence of the demented and agonized Western, Russian, and European brains?’
Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi asks: ‘Can humanity save itself from the murderous violence of the demented and agonized Western, Russian, and European brains?’
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"The best lessons on love and romance, after all, are often understood in retrospect." Truly obsessed with terrygtnguyen on Marina and Ulay, two sort of infuriating, sort of wonderful artists whose partnership leaves a legacy most couples _...Read More_
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"Incongruity is everywhere, the stuff of dreams – or living nightmares – in Tate Modern’s whirlwind tour of surrealism spanning 80 years and more than 150 artists. Elsewhere, Whistler’s Irish muse remains an enigma"
"Incongruity is everywhere, the stuff of dreams – or living nightmares – in Tate Modern’s whirlwind tour of surrealism spanning 80 years and more than 150 artists. Elsewhere, Whistler’s Irish muse remains an enigma"
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Huw Lemmey on some dangerously perverse ideological twists narrating the current crisis. “Pledging loyalty to the myths of nationhood won’t counter this gender and sexual paranoia, this deep-seated conservative desire for a rigid gender _...Read More_
Huw Lemmey on some dangerously perverse ideological twists narrating the current crisis. “Pledging loyalty to the myths of nationhood won’t counter this gender and sexual paranoia, this deep-seated conservative desire for a rigid gender _...Read More_