January 2011
7 posts
The Roots Of Rudeness
Lately I’ve been reading and thinking about Jean Francoise Lyotard’s theories on Postmodernity. Originally written in 1979 in “Conditions of Postmodernity,” he managed to predict much of our culture today. The book itself is short, but like most philosophical texts it is dense, and I understand it in waves.
A point that I once thought was structural (towards the...
Will The Robot Apocalypse Increase Greenhouse Gas...
If you are both environmentally conscious and deathly afraid of robots violently rebelling against their human oppressors, then the question posed above is of vital importance.
It’s bad enough having to pay the monthly subscription fees for the neighborhood Electro-Magnetic Pulse without also worrying about the encroachment of poisonous, oxygen depleted ocean waters lapping up against your...
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Clyde Frazier Implicated In Stunning Art Heist
Knicks legend and broadcaster Walt “Clyde” Frazier was being sought by New York City police officers in connection with the stunning theft of Clyfford Still’s Untitled (PH-382), 1940, pictured below.
Authorities first became suspicious of the Hall of Fame guard upon noting subtle similarities between Stills’s work and the coat Frazier wore to a recent New York Knicks...
