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Luis Camnitzer - The Photograph (1981)

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An article by Geert Lovink in E-Flux has become accidentally more relevant in light of recent political events. The shocking revelations brought into the media regarding the NSA by Edward Snowden got many to draw parallels between today’s society on Huxley’s 1984. One crucial aspect of Huxley’s dystopia was how an information overload would lead the populous as a whole to servile passivity. Also, just simply a great article by Lovink

“Apple.gov”: governmentality in the cloud. From Part I of Captives of the Cloud by Metahaven, e-flux journal, 2012 

This tiny hedgehog doesn’t understand why the pine cones aren’t playing back.

Earlier this year, India’s prime minister Narendra Modi was campaigning for reelection and used a rather unusual method for being in many different places at once: he became a hologram. Not biologically, but with the help of a company called NChant3D that broadcast his nearly hour-long speech in 53 different locations. Now a US company called HologramUSA has the rights to use that technology in the US, and has just hired a lobbyist in Washington, DC to push the Democrats and Republicans into using holograms in the upcoming 2016 presidential election, reports Bloomberg BusinessWeek. The result could be long-dead politicians from America’s Founding Fathers, to more recent and beloved party figureheads like Ronald Reagan and John F. Kennedy. Politicians might also use it to do the same thing as Modi, and be in two places (or more) at once, stretching “in person” appearances on the campaign trail.

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Robin Wight's wire faeries from This Collosal’s Article. Robin Wight sells DIY kits. Thanks for Frykitty for finding these.

Portrait of a Warrioress (Mini) by thewoodenboy

Watch Vox’s full video to see the many other ways these unrealistic beauty standards effect where we work.

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Guerrilla Girls, Untitled (for Messages to the Public), 1990 Courtesy: Jane Dickson PublicArtFund.org 

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