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Being white doesn’t make you racist (we’re all a little bit racist, though). Saying and doing racist things makes you racist. Now who’s playing the “race card?”
I would argue that being white and being male does, actually, make you racist and sexist with the larger point that being alive makes you racist and sexist. Being white and/or male simply means you’re far less likely to examine your racial and/or gender based assumptions because you’re not confronted with other people’s racial and/or gender based assumptions 24/7. The goal is to recognize and ameliorate the fucked up brain society gives you.
June 30, 2009 at 8:15pm Comments
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Sputnik Observatory is a New York not-for-profit educational organization dedicated to the study of contemporary culture. We fulfill this mission by documenting, archiving, and disseminating ideas that are shaping modern thought by interviewing leading thinkers in the arts, sciences and technology from around the world. Our philosophy is that ideas are NOT selfish, ideas are NOT viruses. Ideas survive because they fit in with the rest of life. Our position is that ideas are energy, and should interconnect and re-connect continuously because by linking ideas together we learn, and new ideas emerge.
Seen at Sputnik Observatory
June 30, 2009 at 8:04pm Comments
In an ongoing effort to make its digital educational, historical and cultural resources available to web users across a broad spectrum of platforms, the Library of Congress today launched “The Library of Congress on iTunes U.”
At its inception, the Library’s iTunes U site includes historical videos from the Library’s moving-image collections such as original Edison films and a series of 1904 films from the Westinghouse Works and original videos such as author presentations from the National Book Festival, the “Books and Beyond” series, lectures from the Kluge Center, and the “Journeys and Crossings” series of discussions with curators.
It also includes audio podcasts, including series such as “Music and the Brain,” slave narratives from the American Folklife Center, and interviews with noted authors from the National Book Festival; and classroom and educational materials, including 14 courses from the Catalogers’ Learning Workshop.
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June 30, 2009 at 7:59pm Comments
"I love MoMA. But I also see the situation as dire and deteriorating. And we had barely even discussed the thing that got all of this started; how to dramatically raise the percentage of women artists exhibited on these tow floors and not have it be about tokenism or quotas. To me, MoMA is becoming like a madman who thinks he is King; it is telling a story that by now only it believes. As I walked through the rain I thought about how much I admired Temkin but that the problems at MoMA are so vast and inter-connected that if any change is to come it will likely come slowly, by piecemeal, and incrementally. The irreparable space limitation, a mindset still guided my mediums, the problem of exhibiting mainly well-know names, the issue of having so few women; each of these is gigantic in itself. Each will take time and effort to correct. When I think about how this museum built too small during the richest period in the history of the world I grow furious and morose. As the rain started coming down harder I realized that despite Temkin’s valiant efforts, and the museum’s dedication to alter its course, that we can no longer look to institutions like this for change. Institutions have different responsibilities, mindsets, priorities, pocketbooks, histories, and internal clocks. They’re big, slow, and institutional. Change is going to have to come from all over and be done by everyone. […] Artist Cheryl Donegan recently remarked, “Modernism should not be seen as Biblical; it should be seen as Talmudic.” Meaning the bible is static. Talmudic tradition (which is more Wikipedia than Encyclopedia) involves thousands of people making comments in the margins, debating issues and ideas, shaping tradition, changing it, and keeping it alive."
June 30, 2009 at 6:20pm Comments
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via Paul Kedrosky: “It’s always fun when one popular idea popularizer goes after another popular idea popularizer. This time we have Malcolm “Tipping Point” Gladwell writing critically about Chris “Free” Anderson in the current New Yorker. Read the whole thing, but let’s just summarize to say that Malcolm doesn’t really think that Chris is on to anything, in particular assuming him of “technological utopianism”…”
June 30, 2009 at 9:15am Comments
Infiltrating the Liberals.
We were volunteering at a local homeless shelter. Obviously a front for ACORN or some other brain-washing organization. I wouldn’t have taken the time off of work, but I’d freed up some hours by going Galt.
I was ladling soup into bowls, and talking to the vagrants.
“How come you’re homeless? Obama?”
They seemed to mostly get angry when I mentioned Hussein, with good reason. I gave a wink, acknowledging the feelings we definitely shared, but couldn’t voice in this liberal stronghold.
I must not have been as subtle as I thought, or maybe the scent of a True American was just too strong. Either way, one of my fellow volunteers (footsoldiers?) came over and started asking questions.
“Could you take a mop over to the corner? Someone’s thrown up all over the linoleum.”
More like someone’s thrown up all over the country.
“Sure thing, bud. Quick question — where’s the birth certificate?”
“What?”
Oh no. I’d been found out.
“SOCIALISM.”
June 30, 2009 at 9:15am Comments
June 30, 2009 at 8:56am Comments
Tumblr Audio Parser
I know this isn’t new, but this is mostly for my friends that visit my Tumblr that don’t have Tumblr.
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