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Monthly Archives: December 2007

stasiland

Thursday, December 27, 2007

is it possible that the university where i work is run by ex-members of the secret service of the former east germany? i came across the following instructions for crippling ‘oppositional’ people in the directive ‘perceptions’ (richtlinien stichpunkt wahrnehmung) quoted in anna funder’s excellent stasiland :
to develop apathy in the subject … to achieve a [...]

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into the wild

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

as a certified lazy slut, i am always supremely happy to find someone else has done some work which i would have had to do, but for a while there i really thought that it would be up to me to write a lengthy polemic about the most over-hyped movie of 2007, the ridiculous into [...]

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portraits

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

cue : a random post about two sets of photographs of people : one – the life’s work of the german photographer august sander (1876-1964) currently the subject of a major exhibition at the art gallery of new south wales which contains a sizeable portion of the 1200 of his photographs owned by the j.paul [...]

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