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Weekend Linkages: Is This Charcuterie?

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Saturday Linkages
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...bby tunneling last week and this week it’s in the news A new philosophy of art just dropped World’s best building award won by rainwater-harvesting hospital in rural Bangladesh (thank you Nic for the link!) Dawn of the Space Lords NFTs Are, Quite Simply, Bullshit The Great Los Angeles Train Robbery Is an Exercise in Misdirection The exact moment the German health minister became legendary on philosophy Twitter The new Root Simple house cocktail RI...

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Sensuous Space: How to Create Romantic, Seductive and Sensuous Settings

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Design
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...e last time we saw this kind of decadent sexuality in architecture was the Art Nouveau period of the 1890s and early 20th century which ended in the horrors of WWI. Its reappearance comes intertwined with the liberatory politics of the 60s and 70s but those same left movements can prove prudish. Perhaps the flipper white cubes will get all funky and sinuous in our Acid Communist future and maybe we’ll have a more expanded and nuanced view of what...

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Back From Nowhere

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Thoughtstylings
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...o posts via email. Thank you Roman! While I recover my muse, have a listen to this excellent summary of William Morris’ life via the Jacobin Podcast. The more I become familiar with Morris’ art and politics the more I think he speaks to our time, of the need to recover an optimism about the future and the right we all have to meaningful work....

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Inside the Internet Archive: A Meat World Tour

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Thoughtstylings
...erials to the Archive. They have an app that will tell you if they need a particular item and will sometimes pay for shipping. The Internet Archive is a throwback to the heady, more optimistic days of the Internet familiar to those of us older than 50 who can remember things like Mondo 2000 and rave fueled techno-optimism. Everything will be free! Undeniably useful, the Internet Archive contains many, entertaining quirks such as Ted Nelson’s colle...

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