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      29 Oct 2008

      Speed, technological progress, and accidents

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      [via] Rhizome [txt] Paul Virilio on the crisis - interview on Le Monde
      Having destabilised the financial system, the stock exchange crash might well destabilise the state, which is the guarantor of last resort of collective life. For the time being, the state tries to be reassuring. But if the bourses keep on heading South, it will be state itself that will go in receivership, and that will plunge nations into chaos. This is not me embracing catastrophism. I do not believe that the worst is unavoidable, I do not believe in chaos, that is an untenable position, and it amounts to intellectual arrogance. But that does not mean that one should be prevented from thinking about it. Faced with absolute fear, I counter with hope absolute. Churchill said once that an optimist is somebody who sees opportunity hiding behind every calamity.
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      24 Oct 2008

      11th Venice Architecture Biennale: the OddTag map

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      Oddtag map of 11th Venice Architecture Biennale and collateral events on Google maps (below it's just an image linking to the real map).
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      23 Oct 2008

      Good bloggers work like dogs

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      [txt] Bloggers want my steak baguette - Michael Parsons on timesonline.com
      If you've got a friend who thinks they can make money with their blog, get them to read this piece. Like all people who rise to the top of their profession, it demonstrates a simple truth: good bloggers work like dogs. You can't expect readers to show up unless you show up. And the internet never closes. So Arrington is at his desk in his house about ten minutes after he wakes up. Then he writes all day. Then he goes out to Silicon Valley parties to schmooze. Then he comes home and does it all again the following day. He reckons he has worked every day for the last two years on his blog. Every successful blogger I've come across is the same. Eat, sleep and drink the work. No time out, no holidays – in Arrington's case, 16 hours a day, seven days a week.
      [img] My dog can fly - J. Star on flickr.com
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      23 Oct 2008

      The Conceptual Factory

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      [txt] Conceptual art against a canvas of commerce - www.irishtimes.com
      IN 2006, Irish business spent €15 million on arts sponsorship, according to the Dublin-based industry body that helps broker arts sponsorship deals, Business2Arts. Nobody knows the annual budget of Italian clothes retailer Benetton's arts and culture project, Fabrica, set in rural Treviso close to Venice, but it funds internships, stipends and production expenses each year for 35 artists, photographers and film-makers to do more or less as they please.
      [img] Fabrica a Bagnoli - Perrimoon on flickr.com
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      22 Oct 2008

      The slump as a boon for culture

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      [txt] And now for the good news - John Harris on The Guardian
      Perhaps, I suggest, contemporary art has proved much more suited to documenting boom rather than bust. One thinks of the overblown excesses of that former Wall Street broker Jeff Koons, or, more recently, Damien Hirst's £50m diamond-encrusted skull. 'I'd actually argue that the skull contained within it the inevitability of bust," says Marlow. "One of the whole points about it was, 'You can't take it with you,' and Damien said so. It subverted the idea of boom, and hinted at a downturn."
      [img] The Credit Crunch Explained - chrisjohnbeckett on flickr.com
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      21 Oct 2008

      The end of western artistic hegemony

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      [txt] 2009 Lyon Biennial introduction
      The 2009 Lyon Biennial inaugurates a second trilogy, focused on history. What is the situation regarding the transmission – the kinship, even – of the art forms and skills, the aesthetics and thinking now emanating from the most distant corners of the planet? These factors signal the end of Western artistic hegemony – yet without detriment to its criteria – as art reaches us from places that never knew the explosion of Western modernity. History and all the diversity and density of its recent manifestations: these are the stakes in the 2009 Biennial, under the curatorship of Catherine David.
      links The European Biennial Network: Manifesta 7 - 19 July – 2 November 2008 5th Liverpool Biennial - 20 September – 30 November 2008 Periferic 8 (Iasi - Romania) - 3 – 18 October 2008 53rd Venice Biennial - 7 June – 22 November 2009 2nd Athens Biennial- 15 June – 4 October 2009 11th International Istanbul Biennial - 12 September – 8 November 2009 10th Lyon Biennial - 16 September 2009 – 3 January 2010 5th Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art - autumn 2009 6th Berlin biennial - spring 2010 video Asia by Robin Cantrell - vimeo.com [vimeo=http://www.vimeo.com/1543743]
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      18 Oct 2008

      Magnifico

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      [txt] "Of Mere Being" - Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) on Modern American Poetry
      The palm at the end of the mind, Beyond the last thought, rises In the bronze decor, A gold-feathered bird Sings in the palm, without human meaning, Without human feeling, a foreign song. You know then that it is not the reason That makes us happy or unhappy. The bird sings. Its feathers shine. The palm stands on the edge of space. The wind moves slowly in the branches. The bird's fire-fangled feathers dangle down.
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      18 Oct 2008

      Stayin' alive is a creative remix

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      [via] Disco for CPR - www.boingboing.net [txt] National Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Automated External Defibrillators Awareness Week - Fact Sheet - www.americanheart.org
      The most effective rate for chest compressions is 100 compressions per minute – the same rhythm as the beat of the BeeGee’s song, “Stayin’ Alive.”
      Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive (1977)
      Life goin nowhere. somebody help me. Somebody help me, yeah. Life goin nowhere. somebody help me. Somebody help me, yeah. stayin alive.
      video Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive (Full Version) - youtube [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCAjmuA1HDk]
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      16 Oct 2008

      Yes We Can Share Culture

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      via Creative Commons: A Shared Culture - laughingsquid.com [via] A Shared Culture - joi.ito.com txt Creative Commons: A Shared Culture - Laughing Squid
      A Shared Culture is a new video that helps explain the idea behind Creative Commons. It was created by by Jesse Dylan, the director who made the extremely popular "Yes We Can" video for Barack Obama.
      video A Shared Culture - Creative Commons on blip.tv [blip.tv ?posts_id=1198493&dest=-1]
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      14 Oct 2008

      In Defense of Creativity

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      [txt] In Defense of Piracy - Lawrence Lessig on Wall Street journal online [book] Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy by Lawrence Lessig
      The return of this "remix" culture could drive extraordinary economic growth, if encouraged, and properly balanced. It could return our culture to a practice that has marked every culture in human history - save a few in the developed world for much of the 20th century - where many create as well as consume. And it could inspire a deeper, much more meaningful practice of learning for a generation that has no time to read a book, but spends scores of hours each week listening, or watching or creating, media.
      [img] wardrobe remix: december 6 - jek in the box
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