The affective shift that’s accompanied this political era is so huge that it feels absurd to give it the kind of name that would’ve historically been assigned to such an epoch. “The end of the liberal order”?“The decline of the American empire”? Ridiculous. Maybe “the idiot age.”
People ask “how could a single Victorian novelist produce 10 million books” and then you read the diaries of Victorian novelists and they’re like “spent the morning rolling around in cocaine and laudanum. drank a hundred cups of coffee and saw God.”
Folks in or coming to Philly in the next 2 weeks - come see our show!
This exhibit showcases findings from a 2.5yr research project tracing the global flows of digital wasting from mining, manufacturing, operations, to discard.
Reposting on Indigenous Peoples' Day
Our @sfchronicle story about the 1972 killing of Richard Oakes, the Mohawk activist gunned down at 30 by a man who thought Oakes was a "troublemaker" and "better off dead"
A California jury acquitted the shooter
https://t.co/iJaJrgxQye
EXCLUSIVE: “The Killing of Richard Oakes.”
Proud of this investigation. It’s about the Mohawk father who seized Alcatraz for all Native Americans in 1969. And it’s about what happened to him 3 years later, in a lonely spot in the woods. 1/
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