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Olaf Breuning, Home 2 (film still), 2007; starring Brian Kerstetter; courtesy the artist and Metro Pictures, New York
Skolar cat hidez bahind hiz nollege: Methodologies of Stupid (NSFW)
The titular image is one of my favorites. It's funny to me personally since I am, more or less, a scholar hiding behind knowledge.
Knowing Stupidity
Knowing something about stupidity seems to begin with understanding how difficult the term is to define.
Waxing Durr
Chris Sharp holds the dubious distinction of coining the term “retard art.”
Smart Art
“Einstein’s brain,” begins the eponymous chapter in Roland Barthes’ Mythologies, “is a mythical object,” embodying both mechanical perfection and quasi-gnostic illumination.
If I Were Steve Jobs or Jesus Christ
Tony Matelli I hate email interviews, but it seems like this is the only way we can do it with the schedule. Have you ever tried to read one of those things?
Footnotes to Stupidity and Material Production
Fernand Braudel, The Structures of Everyday Life: The Limits of the Possible (vol. 1 of Civilization and Capitalism, 15th–18th Century; Harper & Row, 1979/1981: Ch. 5, “The Spread of Technology”): To speak of progress against stupidity “is to speak of a history that is slow, mute and complicated; a memory that obstinately repeats known solutions, to avoid the difficulty and danger of imagining something else.
Is he dead? Sit you down, father. Rest you.
“Psychedelic” is a word like “America.” You have an idea of what it means, but this may have nothing in common with what it means to someone else.
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Book Reviews
Fifty Key Figures in Science...
Alex Jovanovich