San Francisco Made of Jelly

Detroit abandonded spaces a blank state to the surface of things

So much has already been written about this city, its abandonment, the blight, the $100 houses for sale, and the mass exodus of its citizens. And while there are fragments of truth to those statements, they are not what defines the city. They are more hyperbole, that in effect, unfairly dismiss a place that, in reality, has a citizenry that has not surrendered, but instead is expansive and entirely free. In 2008, initiated by the purchase of a former foreclosed drug house later dubbed as “The Power House”, Power House Productions was born in an attempt to integrate the surrounding structures and homes of a neighborhood that are in disrepair or deserted. The plan was to take the forgotten or simply rotting homes, repurpose and restructure them as viable living spaces, all the while employing art as architect and inspiration.

Temporary Hegemonic Zones + First NSK Citizen's Congress + *Victory Under the Sun (1988)* documentar

Attending a sprawling congress for Neue Slowenische Kunst’s imaginary state proved to be a worthwhile exercise in traumatic participation. While it is almost impossible to encapsulate what the Slovenian art movement Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) has undertaken, in all its manifestations, since forming in 1983, we could perhaps describe it best as an aesthetic apparatus for collective diagnosis. Its work – spanning music, theatre, philosophy, and statecraft – has served to diagnose multiple forms of repressed and sublimated desires lingering in the collective imagination: from the continuing but unacknowledged appeal of totalitarianism operating within the Yugoslav state, to the fascist dynamics found within the dynamics of pop culture….

Make Facebook Angry, And They’ll Censor You Into Oblivion

Just make sure not to do something that might make Facebook angry. Otherwise it might nuke every link to your site, choking off this river of traffic that you’ve worked so hard to build. That’s the message Facebook sent today with its censorship of links to Lamebook, a humor site that posts lewd conversations spotted on the social network. Facebook has confirmed that it is automatically blocking all links to Lamebook and that it has also removed the company’s ‘Fan’ page. Not because the content was offensive, mind you, but because Facebook doesn’t like Lamebook.