“The rush of moral indignation that often accompanies the encounter with other graphic pictures of atrocities may be narcissistically satisfying, but it may also free us from the responsibility of placing our own experiences in relation to something that remains, finally, incomprehensible.”
–Ulrich Baer, Spectral Evidence: the Photography of Trauma
The dead at Buchenwald
Local inhabitants tour Buchenwald
Mikael […]
As posted on the Canadian Association of Geographers‘ CAGlist:
3 August 2005
I would like to make a brief statement. This was a political arrest and detention. Because of what I reveal in my geographic research on Israeli land policies, and the geography of the Occupation. I am a well-known social scientist, a specialist on the Middle […]
Archinect : Urban Slot Machine : A conversation with Keller Easterling
Mason White: “[H]ow do you position your work and research alongside the historical trajectory of game, chance, and play in architecture and urbanism?”
Keller Easterling: “Urban design hails the power of the circumstantial, but it seems as if we still have very few techniques for designing […]
“Our media is giving the impression that Israel is only fighting along the border in a defensive manner. The map exposes this lie of ommission — this is an all out attempt to destroy the country of Lebanon.” (via here and here)
My dad just sent me some magazine excerpts from 1922 that nicely demonstrate how the history of technology and control repeats itself:
“…[The radio critic has] sounded a cautionary note, asking readers to ‘Think of the tragic fate of some future Thoreau who goes to his beloved woods in search of solitude only to find the […]