Monthly Archives: July 2011

"The shortcoming with them, of course, is that, among many other things, they don’t talk about punk…"

“The shortcoming with them, of course, is that, among many other things, they don’t talk about punk rock or genre film. They talk about the contemporary art world, which to me is a corpse of a whole bourgeois European high-art … Continue reading

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Inscrutability and data visualization: the lost language of the khipu

While it has long been understood that the Inca khipu was an advanced thread/cord-based numerical accounting system, there are tantalizing shreds of evidence suggesting that it was much more — a singular kind of writing, capable of containing myth and … Continue reading

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Posting Anonymously: The Talking Statues of Rome

Anonymity affords a kind of honesty and directness that isn’t always possible when people know who’s doing the talking. It’s important to find ways to break free of the tyranny of our real identities. For me, privacy is only a … Continue reading

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