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I love the idea that our everyday world is overlaid with (or better yet, haunted by) a vibrant, fictive universe of characters and storylines, spin-offs and syndications. And so, apparently, does Dan Meth, whose Pop-Cultural Charts series maps much more than the geography of TV sitcoms. These maps are also, to be sure, a blueprint for the [...]
The much-awaited BLDGBLOG book is out. Sounds like the visually-stunning, encyclopaedic tour de force we’ve been expecting:
“It’s got five major chapters and a huge bibliography; it’s got interviews, full-color photo spreads (by Simon Norfolk! David Maisel! Edward Burtynsky! Ilkka Halso! Bas Princen! and more!), as well as original illustrations by my colleague at Dwell, Brendan Callahan; it’s [...]
Somehow I missed this inspiring development: artists are moving in to Detroit, buying up houses for dirt cheap and converting them into linked-up, green artist communities.
A local couple, Mitch Cope and Gina Reichert, started the ball rolling. An artist and an architect, they recently became the proud owners of a one-bedroom house in East Detroit [...]
I love the idea that, as Ulla remarks in the comments, “we are really not that much more advanced than the 1700’s …” Perhaps we do, on the whole, tend to overestimate the degree to which new forms of social ties are historically novel. Maybe Facebook is merely the next phase, or version, of a much more [...]
It’s a common accusation of the left that politics, liberal and conservative alike, becomes “aestheticized” through persistent suspensions of law and declarations of emergencies. But what, exactly, Neil Levi asks, in a timely, subtle paper on Carl Schmitt, is so “aesthetic” about political decisionism, a doctrine still fresh on our lips in the Obama era. [...]
“Sunaisthēsis is the distant origin of the modern “synaesthesia”; the verb from which it was drawn, sunaisthanesthai, can be found in two passages of Aristotle’s treatises. “Formed by the addition of the prefix ‘with’ (sun-) to the verb ‘to sense’ or ‘to perceive’ (aisthanesthai), the expression in all likelihood designated a ‘feeling in common,’ a [...]
Der Spiegel reports of another “Veiled Woman Removed From Bus in Denmark“:
“For Amina Farah Suleiman, it was the fourth time in a few months that she has been kicked off a bus in the harbor city of Odense. Her Islamic niqab only had a small opening for the eyes, and the driver refused to accept [...]
Ever since Ken Hudson Campbell, playing a jaded but well-meaning Santa (-in his first role, it turns out), put out his butt and pulled up his beard to accommodate one last request (in Home Alone of course), I, and perhaps every adult American my age, have been uniquely attuned to Hollywood’s penchant for ironizing — prematurely, [...]
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