Achieving Humanity: Theoretical Background
Previously: Rethinking Plagiarism: The Death of Text as Authorial Icon pt. 3 I first read Society of the Spectacle (1967) as a junior in high school. Along with Salinger’s 9 Stories and Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist–which I encountered the following year–it was one of the few books with which I sincerely connected. The common [...]
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contemporary french cinema casts me as hobo meryl streep (and i dig it):
Read Moreself-assurance
had great idea to paint a black-magic albino alligator – ended up looking 1) like a white supremacist; and, after a day of reworking: 2) like a blob. that’s the thing with acrylics — they’re awesome when you get it right off the bat, otherwise you might as well toss the canvas. the last time [...]
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Found this cute sketch I did of Rachel in an old notebook, decided to immortalize it in ageless acrylics: Previously on AMR: Great American Novel (Activity)
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Joe Yoga recently let loose the fifth issue of Amuze, “a monthly publication dedicated to trying to describe, through words, images, scotch tape, borrowed photocopiers, and the transcribed dreams, hopes, visions, and breakthroughs of its contributors, the underground arts scene of early Post-Millennial New York City.” You can get a copy of Amuze at Penny’s [...]
Read MoreRethinking Plagiarism: The Death of Text as Authorial Icon, pt. 3
“Two sets of self-fulfilling prophesies are achieved by the assertion that copyright protects the rights of authors. First, it assumes a category which makes universal sense across cultures and across time – namely, that of ‘the author’. Second, by erecting this universal figure of the author and asserting that copyright is meant for the protection [...]
Read Moreaugust painting no. 2
this guy is kind of slippery, hard to get a good photo of: closeup of my favorite part: btw, that’s a razorcake button.
Read MoreMAGNETO TWEETS!
Real-life comic book villain Max Eisenhardt (Magneto) has a twitter! Definitely the most honest and insightful use of the medium I’ve come across – a model to the rest of us just dipping our toes into social media. Watch out “following” him though… he takes that shit seriously: www.twitter.com/magnetotweets
Read Morerethinking plagiarism: the death of text as authorial icon pt. 2
This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin’ it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don’t give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that’s all [...]
Read Morerethinking plagiarism: the death of text as authorial icon pt. 1
“He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been [...]
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