FROM EACH…

10 Radium Age art works depicting precisely engineered and designed utopias.

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By Joshua Glenn

CROSS YOUR ENTHUSIASM (11)

HARRY NILSSON, COMPUTER GENIUS

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By Heather Quinlan

29th
Oct

Ralph Bakshi

If the sexualized children’s gardens of white gloves and dildos sharing the same animation cel are old hat to today’s otaku-obsessed hipsters roaming the...
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By Joe Alterio

28th
Oct

A Wholly Remarkable Book

Kindle, iPhone: both are cool/irksome. But which device is the harbinger of Things to Come? Pointing out that “the Kindle is more like a...
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By Matthew Battles

28th
Oct

Francis Bacon

Unlike his namesake and ancestor, FRANCIS BACON (1909-92) was never granted a knighthood for his services to educated society. Nor should he have been....
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By Patrick Cates

27th
Oct

Groovy Robot Myrmidons

Boston Dynamics, creators of the quadrupedal robot “BigDog,” bring you “Petman,” a robot modeled on the gait of Mr. Natural. Unlike Mr. Natural, Petman...
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By Matthew Battles

27th
Oct

Everything is a text (1)

And now, everybody knows it. “I often describe deconstruction as something which happens. It’s not purely linguistic, involving text or books. You can deconstruct...
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By Joshua Glenn

27th
Oct

Fran Lebowitz

She lacerated the enemies of pleasure.
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By David Smay

26th
Oct

I Sing the Trousers Electric

A new Levi’s advertisement uses a wax-cylinder recording of what is believed to be Walt Whitman reciting his own poem.   Of course, it’s...
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By Matthew Battles

26th
Oct

Nestor Makhno

No one has come closer than NESTOR MAKHNO (1888-1934) to establishing that paradox, the anarchist nation. Born in rural poverty in the Ukraine, he...
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By Lucy Sante