February 2012
3 posts
“I’m not going to try to be an academic or historian, but if you look at the Arab...”
– bint battuta: Anthony Shadid, in Reclaiming What Was Lost: A Conversation with Anthony Shadid
September 2011
2 posts
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July 2011
5 posts
When design kills: The criminalization of walking →
“Students of urban planning and design talk about a phenomenon known as “desire lines.” In French, the language of origin for the expression, it’s “chemins du désir.” Paths of desire. Some people call them “intention lines.”
Whatever words you use, they are a phenomenon recognizable to anyone. They are the paths traced along the ground by living...
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June 2011
3 posts
“Oh, delightful! To cut open the leaves, to inhale the fragrance of the scarcely...”
– William Hazlitt, The Mirror of Literature
Reverse: A Lynching
Return the tree, the moon, the naked man Hanging from the indifferent branch Return blood to his brain, breath to his heart Reunite the neck with the bridge of his body Untie the knot, undo the noose Return the kicking feet to ground Unwhisper the word jesus Rejoin his penis with his loins Resheathe the knife Regird the calfskin belt through trouser loops Refasten the brass buckle Untangle the...
February 2011
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Bubble Club - The Goddess
Sometimes, you can keep...
January 2011
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December 2010
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“Nothing is more delightful than to confuse and upset people. People one...”
– Tristan Tzara
October 2010
1 post
Elbow / Grace Under Pressure
“We still...
July 2010
2 posts
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February 2010
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“…when a supposedly rational and ordered system grows too large and out of...”
– Peter Eisenman
September 2009
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“Day begins with a hot cup and a cigarette over a little table with a weak leg...”
– ‘Gravity’s Rainbow’, Thomas Pynchon