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It’s actually a shot from NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, showing the frozen-solid region around Lake Superior and northern Lake Michigan. It only looks like some dead planet because it is so inhospitable to human life right now.

via This super-detailed satellite photo of the frozen Great Lakes is pretty spectacular | Grist

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We are at the beginning — not the end — of a long period of global economic restructuring that will be very painful. The brutality of massive budget cuts has only begun to be felt. According to whose interests this restructuring will be done is not yet set, and what new paradigm will emerge from the chaos is anyone’s guess. Partly, it depends on what we actually do now.

If art and art theory are to play a positive role in this process, they need to ditch the platitudes of “my art is my activism” and “my theory is my practice.” Moving beyond “postmodernism” has to mean a shift away from the myopia and cynicism that has characterized our recent past, if it is to mean anything at all.

Unless and until such a shift occurs, simply giving up the term or changing it out for a new one is not going to do much good. Swapping word games for a meaningful relationship to political reality was part of the problem in the first place.

Ben Davis, The Age of Semi-Post-Postmodernism (via stoweboyd)
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inothernews:

IN WHICH WE BURN  A solar eruption, imaged by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, reveals evidence of magnetic “braids” caused by the swirling of plasma on the Sun’s surface. (Photo: NASA / National News / Zuma Press via The Wall Street Journal)

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maaaagicc:

youmakejohnlaugh:

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OMG. YOU LIVE NEAR ME.

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I just laughed so hard I choked on my own saliva…

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dear capital: while you were out colonizing institutional space…

hautepop:

by nocaesura:

dear capital:
while you were out colonizing institutional space, unethically accumulating resources on blind cybernetic autopilot and profiting at the expense of humanity, i have been levelling up my mage. i am now an advanced practitioner in the spheres of skepticism, invasion, critical irony and hauntology. i have maxed out my skill level in all four of these spells to ‘sisyphean ad nauseam’… ne plus ultra much, bitch? see u in hell.

p.s. my identity is an emerging micro-niche market which i have chosen to claim ownership to despite previously owning it in an informal-communal sense defined by untranslatable semiotic which i have betrayed by increasing the visibility of and making translatable to the commodity form in order to profit from and secure my personal transmutation into celebrity, please buy my chapbook grimoire e-book for $5 via paypal. thanks.

net/art people seem big on personal branding – in the ruins of its desecration (can you desecrate something that was always ghastly?) by digital marketers and bloggers-on-blogging about 2-3 years ago. not quite sure what this means, now – but it’s interesting.

dear capital: while you were out colonizing institutional space…

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