Great feminist tools – language, criticality, …
“LES FÉMINISTES ONT LA DOULEUR DE VOUS FAIRE PART DE LA NOMINATION DE” …
via Le Beau Vice
Category: language
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LA Times – Art and race at the Whitney
In regards of the fictional artist Donelle Woolford inclusion in the 2014 Whitney Biennial.
In the art world, inhabiting a fictional character in order to produce work is not new. Marcel Duchamp had a female alter ego called Rrose Sélavy. There is Lester Hayes, the African American artist conjured by a pair of white New York gallerists. At the 2008 Whitney Biennial there was a Miami collective called BLCK, not really a collective, but the invention of a single Haitian-born artist. And late last year, L.A.’s Launch Gallery showed the work of the Namaak Collective, a group that was allegedly founded in Amsterdam, but is actually the work of Los Angeles artists Marischa Slusarski and Britt Ehringer.
Carolina A. Miranda at the LA Times.
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Frederick Douglass read by Ossie Davis
On work, payment, liberation, voice and language.
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From the 1966 album “Autobiography of Frederick Douglass, Vol. 1”
www.folkways.si.edu/ossie-davis/aut…bum/smithsonian
Ossie Davis reads excerpts from Frederick Douglass’s autobiography, edited by Dr. Philip Foner, which traces the abolitionist and statesman’s life from early childhood through to his most significant political accomplishments. This first volume establishes the personal and educational foundation on which Douglass built his distinguished career, specifically addressing his birth into slavery, his battle to learn to read and how being forced to “drink the bitterest dregs of slavery” inspired his escape. (See also FW05526 Autobiography of Frederick Douglass, Vol. 2.)
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ethereum
Ethereum : A Next-Generation Generalized Smart Contract and Decentralized Application Platform.
via triplecanopy‘s commission of Primavera De Filippi and Samer Hassan, who will “create a crowdfunding system for artistic production, implemented as a Distributed Autonomous Organization (DAO) within the platform and programming language Ethereum.”
http://pastebin.com/NCGRv74u
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mindfulness
Psychologist Ellen J. Langer’s “Counter Clockwise: mindful health and power of possibility”, 2009. Excerpt of the book. Episode of NPR-Talk of the Nation, from this past August; a quote from the transcript.
LANGER: Well no, I think it’s easier than it sounds, actually, that, you know, it’s – people often confuse mindfulness with thinking, and thinking has gotten a bad rap itself. Now, when you’re being mindful, as I study it, you’re simply noticing new things. Even when you’re thinking, what is stressful is the worry that you’re not going to get the answer right, not the actual playing with the material.
Mindfulness is what you’re doing when you’re at leisure. If you are, oh, let’s say, on a vacation, you’re looking for new things. You’ve paid a lot of money to be in that state oftentimes. So I think that people would recognize that it’s enjoyable rather than taxing. And it’s even more than that. It’s I think mostly energy begetting, not consuming.
Reminds me a bit of “The Art of Travel” by Alain De Botton.
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Apparently, literally is a crutch
theatlanticwire.com on Biden’s propensity towards literally (use as hyperbole) and on other crutch words. I lean on actually.
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when tu > vous (or usted)
BBC on the second person address on the interweb, specifically usage of the informal “tu” vs. the formal “vous” on Twitter.
Social networking sites such as Twitter take this one step further, adopting codes “characterised by a heightened sense of emotional proximity”, such as friending on Facebook, he says.
Twitter, meanwhile, follows on from a long line of internet forums where users could be anonymous.
“In the philosophy of the internet, we are among peers, equal, without social distinction, whatever your age, gender, income or status in real life,” Besson says.
Addressing someone as “vous” – or expecting to be addressed as “vous” – on the other hand, implies hierarchy.
There are poignant comments on the article.