February 2011
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“Back in the autumn 2005, I was co-chair of a jury to select ideas for the design...”
– David Harvey, Enigma of Capital
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Green Building →
At the heart of the landscape urbanist agenda is the notion that the most important part of city planning is not the arrangement of buildings, but the natural landscape upon which those buildings stand. Proponents envision weaving nature and city together into a new hybrid that functions like a living ecosystem. And instead of pushing people closer together in service of achieving density, as...
January 2011
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The Final Countdown →
Within two months of the last touchdown, almost all of Florida’s 9,000 space workers will have lost their jobs. The layoffs have already begun. By the end of last year over 2,000 had been made redundant. Another cull began in January, with between 1,000 to 3,000 jobs at risk. A similar number of jobs will go in another round of cuts planned for the spring. […] In all, 19 per cent of jobs in...
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Unrest in Egypt: The battle of Cairo is over, or... →
He had smelled a fire nearby. We traced its source soon enough, after climbing to the roof of my building. Smoke drifted from the garden of the villa next door, where workers had recently been digging a peculiarly deep hole, as if for a swimming pool. In a far corner of the garden stood rows of cardboard boxes spilling over with freshly shredded paper, and next to them a smouldering fire.
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Ravel, Pavane pour une infante défunte [Pavane for...
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Davos Is Silent as Egypt Burns - Alan Friedman -... →
It was truly surreal however to watch Ban Ki-moon, Bill Gates, and world leaders sitting on stage to calmly discuss climate change and sustainable development while Egypt was burning. When the UN chief addressed the crowd he waxed eloquently about scarce resources, saying “we have mined our way to growth and pawned our way to prosperity and now supplies are scarce and the scarcest resource...
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Concerns about the Muslim Brotherhood: Israel... →
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“The philosopher is no longer the being of the caves, nor Plato’s soul or bird,...”
– Gilles Deleuze (via nearlya:mattermedia)
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One day, I am gonna grow wings; a chemical...
- Radiohead, Let Down
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Art dealers enjoyed 'one of the greatest years... →
While economies crashed and governments slashed spending, an unprecedented number of incredibly wealthy people all over the world were effectively taking Warhol at his word. What they actually hung on their walls and stood in their rooms were Picassos, Modiglianis and Giacomettis but, at the mind-bending prices that they paid for them, the effect was almost the same as if they had displayed a...
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LRB · Benjamin Kunkel · How Much Is Too Much? →
Review of David Harvey’s two recent books, The Enigma of Capital: And the Crises of Capitalism and A Companion to Marx’s ‘Capital.
The real originality of The Limits to Capital, however, is to add a new geographical dimension to crisis formation. Harvey goes about this via a theory of rent. One effect of the approach is to suggest why property speculation – with its value ultimately tied up...
Imagine if the invasion had never happened and...
publicradiointernational:
Makes you think.
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NYTimes | When Children's Art Takes Over the Home →
All this art may or may not tell us something about the nature of the child. But it reveals plenty about the parents. Do they lavish praise on every piece or barely glance up from the iPhone? Do they frame art for the grandparents or turn it into wrapping paper? In the plainest sense, is the parent a keeper or a chucker?
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