January 2012
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“What’s strange is that crime has continued to fall during the recession. On May...”
– “Raise the Crime Rate.”
A good companion to Adam Gopnik’s NYT piece on prisons.
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important retraction / note on camp
agrammar:
The first time I wrote about Lana Del Rey, in a column, a few months back, I said I was pleased that when she invoked the name “Lolita,” she actually seemed to be talking about something like the character in the novel, and not whatever strange mincing porny thing people use that name to refer to today.
Now, having heard her song “Lolita,” I would like to apologize and mostly retract...
natepatrin:
strippertweets:
GQ: How were you...
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Mass Incarceration and Criminal Justice in America... →
You’ve probably seen this already. If not, read it! It’s important and fascinating, though you might already know a bunch of the things it covers (ie. America puts way too many people in jail, crime has actually been going down for decades, drug laws are basically insane and totally counter-productive, etc.)
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The Book Bench: In the Labyrinth: A User’s Guide... →
This might potentially be useful for people, and it’s a handy sketch of Bolaño’s ouevre, but the author’s description of 2666 paints him as a complete philistine, as far as I’m concerned: “The book is a desert of negative space across which the panting reader will search in vain for the traditional pleasures of the novel: form, character, coherence, meaning.”...
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History - Tomorrow Gallery - installation views
jeremyjansen:
“HISTORY” Jeremy Jansen and Niall McClelland
Tomorrow Gallery
Jan. 20 - 27th, 2012 163 Sterling Road Unit 1b Toronto, Ontario M6R 2B2 MAP
For More Information • E-Mail: info [at] tomorrowgallery [dot] info • (t) 416.917.1146
History was published by Koyama Press www.koyamapress.com
Cool dudes doing cool things.
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So, What ARE People Buying Instead Of Music?
tomewing:
Yesterday I asked the question, “what are people buying instead of music?”. If the free availability of music - legal or otherwise - has led to a relative decline in money spent on non-free music, where has that money gone? I got a bunch of really interesting responses, so here they are.
Tech
“Tech, above all. The most egregious piraters I know spend over $100 on Internet and mobile...
Red Starships →
beautravail:
Here is my piece about TIFF Cinematheque’s new series Attack the Bloc: Cold War Science Fiction from Behind the Iron Curtain, which ranges from Andrei Tarkovsky to East German sexploitation to a movie called Adolescents in the Universe. They’re screening Ferat Vampire this Friday!
Whoa, gotta get myself to the Lightbox.
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The Hermeneutics Of Screwing Around →
tomewing:
Paper by Stephen Ramsay, found via the Stanley Fish article, making the case for serendipitous/chance-driven trails as an alternative to sense-making strategies such as canon-formation or algorithmic big data analysis.
I am colossally sympathetic to this and wish I’d read it sooner (it’s from 2010) - chimes w/stuff I’ve been writing about for ages (like this - from 10 years ago but...
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What the fuck?
soulonice:
Cloud Nothings are terrible!
I was going to say “possibly the worst thing hustled by major taste outlets in recent memory” and then I thought of at least three worse things. But still.
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sincere questions:
theremixbaby:
if you can be a nerd about comedy or sports or beer or cars or other traditionally not-nerdy things then why can’t you be a nerd about shoes or reality tv or skin-care or pilates or celebrity gossip or hair dye? are girls who take multiple pictures of their outfits every single day to post on lookbook.nu actually the biggest nerds in the world? what about subcultural girl-nerdery?...
Kari & Sara Cwynar
jodyrogac:
Today at the studio
— polaroid –
These girls are great!
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What is Internet Poetry? A Definition in Verse |... →
unbuiltroads:
Yall I know this is making the rounds but FYI I wrote about Internet Poetry first in the media theory journal Pool (PDF here; page 24) back in August.
Firstsies! (It’s true, I read that article). Pool site is currently down?
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What is Internet Poetry? A Definition in Verse |... →
You seem to be most interested in poetry that’s made by artists on the periphery of their practices. Are you also going to try to work with self-defined writers who work online, or is the focus principally on artists? Does that distinction impact the final poetry work at all?
You see, the “wordwork” wants to claim A space past discipline. A name Has little impact on work you use It to...
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BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: THE YEARS OF STAGNATION... →
Everybody is always remarking about how stuck our society feels these days. The music doesn’t change, the political parties are all exactly the same, and films and TV dramas are almost always set in the past. We are also stuck with an economic system that is not delivering the paradise that it once promised - but is instead creating chaos and hardship. Yet no-one can imagine a better...
