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Jenny Holzer
Kwame Anthony Appiah, a Ghanaian-British-American philosopher, explains cosmopolitanism - useful in considering what it means to be responsible to the wider community.
In Focus: A World Without People
For a number of reasons, natural and human, people have recently evacuated or otherwise abandoned a number of places around the world — large and small, old and new. Gathering images of deserted areas into a single photo essay, one can get a sense of what the world might look like if humans were to vanish from the planet altogether. Collected here are recent scenes from nuclear-exclusion zones, blighted urban neighborhoods, towns where residents left to escape violence, unsold developments built during the real estate boom, ghost towns, and more.
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Berndnaut Smilde created a cloud in a room which was visible for mere minutes at Hotel MariaKapel.
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Anna Schuleit installed thousands of flowers in the Massachusetts Mental Health Center to commemorate its life, history, and people over the 91 years of its operation.
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Quick link: What is social inclusion?
Given the constant use of social inclusion in policy discourse, here’s a good look at the term and its political origins.
Super Cut: Tumbleweeds in Film
The Columbus Museum of Art recently put together a supercut of tumbleweed scenes from from various movies and television. The result, for a video that’s literally about a ball of sticks blowing around in the wind, is impressive and emotional. Tumbleweeds Rolling in Cinema Super Cut [Viral Viral…
SLEEVES: GABRIEL BRUCE’S SLEEP PARALYSIS
For all the faceless MP3′s we download on a regular basis, you still can’t replace the excitement of great looking album art—even cooler when we’ve got a freshly pressed vinyl and bespoke booklet to pour over lyrics and liner notes. In our new column Sleeves (an online revitalization of an old FADER magazine column) we’ll explore some of the best art and design happening on new releases. For our first installment, William Hunt from London-based art collective Off Modern talks to us about the new, lushly designed 50-page booklet/sleeve for Gabriel Bruce’s single Sleep Paralysis. [read more]
As many pairs of shoes as she likes
A thoughtful and well-researched piece on why feminism fails when taken out of a whole of person and whole of society context
