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Allegories of Occupation
Our Lady of Liberty Park. Molly Crabapple. 2012-13.“Occupy Wall Street. An anatomy of Zuccotti park, from the free cigarette table to the obnoxious drum circle to the people’s library, with appearances...
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What is the Grass? Watching How to Grow a Planet
A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he. —Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself,” st. 6 Microscope image of...
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Backyard Magic
On Saturday, I witnessed a paleoanthropological event in my own backyard when my three-year old son began to perform some sort of ritual nature magic. Click to view slideshow. Pictured here is the...
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Tiny Free Library
Walking my dog this morning, I discovered this curious little booth in a neighbour’s yard, which seems to have popped out of the ground overnight. “Free for use of [the] Public.” This structure,...
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Floris Kaayk’s Visions of Emergence 1: “The Order Electrus”
O nature, nature, life will not perish! . . . [I]t will start out naked and tiny; it will take root in the wilderness, and to it all we did and built will mean nothing—our towns and factories, our art,...
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Numbers or Souls? Angelo Musco’s Ecotechnical Bodyscapes
“For some it’s the numbers,” Angelo Musco told TIME Lightbox in an interview last March. “For me, it’s the souls.” Musco creates “Bodyscapes,” enormous images composed of thousands, even millions of...
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A Cause for Young People
A cause for young people is not a supplement of the soul; it is the very future of a society, of a civilization, a culture, and must be worshipped. Young people of the twenty-first century have a right...
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Marking Territory: Pollution as Appropriation in Serres’ Malfeasance
In Malfeasance: Appropriation through Pollution? French philosopher of science Michel Serres makes a provocative argument that links our seemingly unstoppable drive to pollute and befoul our...
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The Octopus World
As a huge fan of octopus (and cephalopods in general) I can’t resist sharing this amazing image rendered in Photoshop by Heri Irawan and posted over at CGHub.Filed under: Arts, Monsters Tagged: animals...
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The White God 1: Kurtz
He’s been haunting me. In the past few months, he’s been following me in the books I’ve been reading: Blood Meridian, Heart of Darkness, and now The Windup Girl. The character is a little different...
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