Conscientious Redux

bostonreview:

Ta-Nehisi Coates in comments to his article on teaching writing at MIT (via Jamison Foser)

“forthewin1000“‘s comment was even as remotely horrible as much of the stuff you can find under YouTube videos or elsewhere (even just check the comments underneath news stories), where anonymous bullying and horrible verbal abuse are just common.

xo-skeleton:

Hermann Behrens, Weiblicher Akt mit Tod als Vanitasallegorie (Female Nude with Death as Vanitas Allegory) detail, 1901

(via artdetails)

greatleapsideways:

“Historically, the primitive is articulated by the west in deprivative or supplemental terms: as a spectacle of savagery or as a state of grace, as a socius without writing or the Word, history or cultural complexity or as a site of originally unity, symbolic plenitude, natural vitality. There is nothing odd about this Eurocentric construction: the primitive has served as a coded other at least since the Enlightenment, usually as a subordinate term in its imaginary set of oppositions (light/dark, rational/irrational, civilized/savage). This domesticated primitive is thus constructive, not disruptive, of the binary ratio of the west; fixed as a structural opposite or a dialectical other to be incorporated, it assists in the establishment of a western identity, center, norm and name. In its modernist version the primitive may appear transgressive, it is true, but it still serves as a limit: projected within and without, the primitive becomes a figure of our unconscious and outside (a figure constructed in modern art as well as in psychoanalysis and anthropology in the privileged triad of the primitive, the child and the insane).”

— Hal Foster “The “Primitive” Unconscious of Modern Art, or White Skin Black Masks” in Recodings: Art, Spectacle, Cultural Politics

Photographs in order:

1. J.T. Zealy & Louis Agassiz, Delia, American born daughter of Renty -Congo, 1850
2. Viviane Sassen, Spring of the Nile, from Flamboya (September 2009)
3. Greg Kadel, Constance Jablonski, from Número (October, 2010)
4. Frances Benjamin Johnston, Louis Firetail, Sioux, Crow Creek, Wearing Tribal Clothing in American History Class, Hampton Institute, Virginia, c1899-1900
5. Jean-Paul Goude, Naomi Campbell in Wild Things, from Harpers Bazaar, 2009
6.  Viviane Sassen, Menthe, from Ultra Violet
7. Leni Riefenstahl, from The Last of the Nuba
8. Viviane Sassen, Mimosa, from Ultra Violet
9. W. Eugene Smith, Madness (Female mental patient), 1959, from “Haiti”
10. Viviane Sassen, Trickster, from Ultra Violet

iteeth:

From Dronestagram, in which James Bridle posts “images of the locations of drone strikes to the photo-sharing site Instagram as they occur”:

May 29 2013 - A strike on a mud-built house in Miranshah or the nearby village of Chashma, at 3am, killing 4-7 people. According to local resident Bashir Dawar, “The bodies were badly damaged and beyond recognition.” #drone #drones #pakistan

theincoherentlight:

akinabooks:

Arena - Frank Rodick

Of taboos, love, death and redemption

Recommending this conversation between Frank Rodick and Alex Bocchetto of Akina Books. They have just published a selection of Frank’s work, which can be seen here.

thingsmagazine:

Diaries from the front lines, WWI

jomc:

…distraction tactics of the 24 hour news cycle, sure, but i rather like this spritely mermaid without a compass. oft framed as a perversion, rather than an act of will, whistleblowing seems well on its way to the dsm vi. if images like this make snowden’s decision more relatable, less mental; requiring empathy rather than suspension of belief, it will be a lasting great effect.

(via photographsonthebrain)

bostonreview:

Scenes from the flood in Central Europe: Hungary (top) and Germany.

Well, it’s Austria at the bottom. At least that’s what the poster says. Which looks like a campaign poster for the Austrian conservative party (ÖVP), and it says “Austria - Here, we’re doing well.”

tastefullyoffensive:

Facebook’s new privacy options.

(via eyecurious)

(Source: scorpiondagger)