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(Mis)communication in the digital age
This past autumn I went to Asia for the first time in over a decade. I saw the region with adult eyes. I Skyped a fair bit. I got gently lost. Words failed. In the wake of the trip, I’ve occasionally...
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The Community Function, the Italian Renaissance, Paul Graham’s essays & the...
That is a photo I took on a trip to Italy this past December. While I haven’t traveled widely there, it’s a place that recalls other cities trapped in amber historically and creatively. Like Paris,...
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Four images about desire in the southern hemisphere
Small girl. Giant, hopping rat with pouch. The 1% can now indulge in dolphin fucking on their high-priced sex tourism jaunts. People are really fixated on North America. Possible destination. PS –...
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J.M. Coetzee, Jesus Christ & a visit to Adelaide
Lying prone in a front room of a Melbourne suburb, I’m reading this J.M. Coetzee essay about Aussie poet Les Murray. I did not previously know of Murray or his poems — my bad, my loss, he is...
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Aaron Swartz: 1986-2013
I find it strange how I’m constantly pulled to this internet website for the purpose of obituaries, meditations on peoples’ passings. Maybe the online world really is a kind of death? Anyhoo, the life...
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A democracy of writing: Twitter criticism, Tumblr’s sale and deep thoughts...
(image via the New York Review of Books, credit: Dominique Nabokov) In the past three months I’ve been to Australia and Brazil and Quebec and Los Angeles, touched Tasmanian soil and wandered endlessly...
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Recently someone reminded me that I’m the owner of this here blog. What’s the saying: Use it or lose it? Well, actually, I don’t think there’s any chance that personal content farms will do anything...
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Six pictures from Detroit
This post could also be accurately titled as “What I learned on my summer vacation” because, well, we remain children forever in a way. I went to Detroit on what could be mistaken for a disaster...
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Deep thoughts on Brazil, romance, aspiration & buying stuff
Enjoy this portrait of Havan, the Brazilian big box chain. It was made by my friend Nadia Sussman for the New York Times. Take this video portrait of Brazilians romanticizing American iconography as a...
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1942-2013 = LOU REED = ∞
This blog entry is cross-posted from brassland.org. “It always bothers me to see people writing ‘RIP‘ when a person dies. It just feels so insincere and like a cop-out. To me, ‘RIP‘ is the microwave...
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