Long live cathode ray tube.
Buchanan’s Mars Yard
European Space Agency’s Mars Yard; but, I propose Beverly Buchanan’s Mars Yard.
Westworld, music from season 01
Why Criticism Matters
Why Criticism Matters – Essay by Elif Batuman NYTimes, 2011.
Literature viewed in this way becomes a gigantic multifarious dream produced by a historical moment. The role of the critic is then less to exhaustively explain any single work than to identify, in a group of works, a reflection of some conditioned aspect of reality.
Batuman reads “Constructed Worlds” is adapted from her forthcoming first novel, “The Idiot.”
Also, How to Be a Stoic.
Public Memory
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Recreation at the Whitney Biennial
Recreation indicated by the Pantone 469, as specified by Federal Highway Administration; but really, Park McArthur.
Visitors to the Whitney Biennial must be at least eighteen years old to put on a headset and watch “Real Violence,” an extremely bloody virtual-reality project by Jordan Wolfson. PHOTOGRAPH BY BILL ORCUTT.
Hyperallergic on MemoryLab
Monica Uszerowicz covers MemoryLab for Hyperallergic:
All histories are multifaceted, contingent on who’s telling it, and that’s maddeningly clear here. In their examination of Miami’s history, the artists in MemoryLab are essentially communicating the city’s present and future, because life is too cyclical to keep it all separated.
It is the system
Jacques Rancière on the representative democracy, professional politicians and the french election. Applies to much western democracies. via verso.
Édouard Louis echoes critiquing the system, of a failed Left, from which the far Right seems hopeful. via guardian.
Journalism can help with a deeper probe of the politics, numbers and language of the system. via On the Media.