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another Thing to Sort of Pin o
How we arrived at the notion that the postmodern era is the first ever to confront the tension between sincerity and irony despite millennia of evidence to the contrary is no mystery: every generation believes its insights are unprecedented, its struggles uniquely formidable, its solutions the balm for all that ails the world. Why so [...]
You Back the Attack, We’ll Bomb Who We Want
You Back the Attack, We’ll Bomb Who We Want, by Micah Ian Wright, with forwards and commentary by Howard Zinn, Kurt Vonnegut, and the Center for Constitutional Rights Commentary. A nice collection of related work from other artists here.
GUARANÃ POWER
The GUARANà POWER softdrink is produced by a guaraná farmers’ cooperative from Maués in the Brasilian Amazon, in collaboration with Superflex. The farmers have organised themselves in response to the activities of the multinational corporations Xxxxx and XxxxxXx, a cartel whose monopoly on purchase of the raw material has driven the price paid for guaraná [...]
Who’s Sicker? Hippies, System?
What an amazing headline! It manages to catch the cynicism at both poles of that time, and through terse newspeak, render it almost objective. It’s a piece in its own right, or at the very least a title and an instigation for one… -via  Tales from the Uni-Nursery
sellout clouds
A cluster of sellout clouds from the cutely-titled (dam they’re good at titles!) BAD GRAPHIC DESIGN at HKJB >
cartier award
“DYNAMIC MANIFESTO”: The Cartier Award 2010
Beyond Pastoral
BP logo in lemons and limes, or Beyond Pastoral, by Bruce High Quality Foundation
happy holidays
-via call henkel
tragedy / farce
From Slavoj Zizek, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, pp 80-85: ‘But with the financial meltdown, the urgency to act was unconditional; sums of an unimaginable magnitude had to be found immediately. Saving endangered species, saving the planet from global warming, saving AIDS patients and those dying for lack of funds for expensive treatments, saving [...]