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Our utopia is about the idea of change–not the thought of the absolute that we impose on ourselves and others. I always sum this up with a saying: “I can change through exchanging with others, without losing or diluting my sense of self” – Glissant.
The Archipelago Conversations, Édouard Glissant & Hans Ulrich Obrist, Emma Ramadan, translator. Isolarii, 2021.
Atemoya (Annona squamosa x A. cherimola), custard apple, kachiman. Related to soursop (Annona muricata), korosol, guanabana.
AT&T had a data breach (data is considered so sensitive that police need a warrant to access it.) Mozilla advises us to take some precautionary steps–Brush up on the Federal Trade Commission’s tips to avoid getting scammed. Also, request the company delete your personal data frequently.
Doreen St. Félix on The Critic and Her Publics. Spent times on Awol Erizku’s “Girl with a Bamboo Earring,” 2009.
“It remains to be seen if there is any leader in these hideous times who is capable of the pained eloquence and reason…” Remnick, New Yorker.
[Haiti Inter] Papa Doc et le vodou: rituels et sacrifices au palais national
“L’instrumentalisation du vaudou par François Duvalier est à la fois cynique et fascinante. Il a habilement exploité les croyances populaire”
Shelley Duvall, 20 films (14. Rapunzel (1983) from Faerie Tale Theatre series).
Sustainability and shoe companies. Small is closer to green.
Experts say there’s no real upside for consumers to allow gen AI to be trained on their data and there are risks that are still being studied. CNBC
“Lamar is a master of rap, it can’t be denied, and his hard-won skill has earned him an undammable flood of free expression.” Vinson Cunningham in New Yorker.
Localization. A leverage point. A position to place the lever.
Source: The Mack Stripped Bare, 1999 – Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami
The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass), Marcel Duchamp, 1915-1923. Oil, varnish, lead foil, lead wire, and dust on two glass panels. Philadelphia Museum of Art.
The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box), Marcel Duchamp, 1934. Box containing collotype reproductions on various papers. Edition: 112/300 from a deluxe edition of 20 + regular edition of 300. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Artist Stripped Bare. Review of Duchamp’s Leg, exhibition at the Center for the Fine Arts and Neo-Dada: Redefining Art 1958-62, to the Art Museum at FIU, by Judy Cantor-Navas, Miami New Times, February 8, 1996.
The Band Stripped Bare. Article on the C60, grunge band, by Georgina Cardenas. Miami New Times, July 10, 1997.
The Mack, a 1973 American blaxploitation crime drama film directed by Michael Campus, starring Max Julien and Richard Pryor. Wikipedia. IMDB. Brother’s Gonna Work It Out (The Mack/Soundtrack Version), Willie Hutch.
Stripped, Christina Aguilera, 2002.