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Digital Flâneur
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Flâneur (n.) One who saunters, observing society and enjoying the sights.
Saunter (v.) To walk leisurely and with no apparent aim. From Middle English santren, (to muse)
Muse (v. intransitive) To become lost in thought, to ponder; engage in meditation
Digital (adj.) of or relating to computers or the computer age
purrversatility: Please read/share if you are a Bay Area sex worker/love a Bay Area sex worker!
Trigger Warning
So local sex workers have apparently been getting this mass, anonymous email/death threat.:
“to undisclosed recipients
I have seen you before and I look forward to seeing you again. I am
going to see you some time in March, and I want you to provide BBFS.
I will not tell you…
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You are looking at gut bacteria. [by Martin Oeggerli]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/446af6c257167c698ca0926389e97f78/tumblr_mf5aqapTJz1qzprlbo1_1280.png)
You are looking at gut bacteria. [by Martin Oeggerli]
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From our library:
The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
Etymologically, the word poetry derives from the ancient Greek poïesis (meaning to create or bring forth) and so we might think of a poetics as the creative force or evocative content of an object or an activity.
In this vein, Bachelard (a mailman turned chemist turned chair of the Philosophy of Science at the Sorbonne) walks us through an examination of how the places we inhabit shape us, from the symbolic power of the hermit’s hut (with its values of solitude, humility and warmth) to the interplay of attics, childhood, and recollection.
This is not an easy book, at times collapsing under the weight of dense jargon (skip the introduction) but it remains one of my most favorite and influential reads. Your effort will be richly rewarded.
This trifecta was in the downstairs photography area right near the classic entrance of the AIC. I can’t find where I documented the artist, however.
Help?
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Lutz BacherThanks!
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Lynn Davis, Ice 1988-2007
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Loretta Ross on the origin of the term “Woman of Color”
Loretta Ross: Y’all know where the term “women of color” came from? Who can say that? See, we’re bad at transmitting history.
In 1977, a group of Black women from Washington, DC, went to the National Women’s Conference, that [former President] Jimmy Carter gave $5million to have as part of the World Decade for Women. There was a conference in Houston, TX.
This group of Black women carried into that conference something called “The Black Women’s Agenda” because the organizers of the conference—Bella Abzug, Ellie Smeal, and what have you—had put together a three-page “Minority Women’s Plank” in a 200-page document that these Black women thought was somewhat inadequate.
So they actually formed a group called Black Women’s Agenda to come [sic] to Houston with a Black women’s plan of action that they wanted the delegates to vote to substitute for the “Minority Women’s Plank that was in the proposed plan of action.
Well, a funny thing happened in Houston: when they took the Black Women’s Agenda to Houston, then all the rest of the “minority” women of color wanted to be included in the “Black Women’s Agenda.” Okay?
Well, [the Black women] agreed…but you could no longer call it the “Black Women’s Agenda.” And it was in those negotiations in Houston [that] the term “women of color” was created. Okay?
And they didn’t see it as a biological designation—you’re born Asian, you’re born Black, you’re born African American, whatever—but it is a solidarity definition, a commitment to work in collaboration with other oppressed women of color who have been “minoritized.”
Now, what’s happened in the 30 years since then is that people see it as biology now.
You know? Like, “Okay…” And peopleare saying they don’t want to be defined as a woman of color: “I am Black, “I am Asian American”…and that’s fine. But why are you reducing a political designation to a biological destiny?
That’s what white supremacy wants you to do. And I think it’s a setback when we disintegrate as people of color around primitive ethnic claiming. Yes, we are Asian American, Native American, whatever, but the point is, when you choose to work with other people who are minoritized by oppression, you’ve lifted yourself out of that basic identity into another political being and another political space. And, unfortunately, so many times, people of color hear the term “people of color” from other white people that [PoCs} think white people created it instead of understanding that we self-named ourselves. This is term that has a lot of power for us.
But we’ve done a poor-ass job of communicating that history so that people understand that power.
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London-based artist Zadok Ben David created this incredible installation using 12,000 cut steel botanical specimens modeled from old textbook illustrations, each embedded in a thin layer of sand. On first encountering the sprawling array of plants they appear completely black, thus the installation’s title: Blackfield. However when viewed from the opposite side, a field of black turns into a wall of color.
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Cats That Look Like Pinup Girls
Romney son jokes he wants to ‘take a swing’ at Obama – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs
I… see.
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