William Kentridge’s Monument is a captivating short animated film about the unveiling of a statue dedicated to the South African work force. This monument comes to life, and continues to suffer under the elite white regime. This celebration and memorialization of past injustices fails in its goal to silence or normalize these injustices, as the statue breaks the cinematic third wall and its breathing fills our ears.
Reading List- Remembering Vincent ChinCross-posted at Asian-Nation. Today, June 19, marks the anniversary of the day Vincent Chin was beaten into a coma because he was Asian. As summarized in my article “Anti-Asian Racism,” Vincent Chin was a 27-year-old Chinese American living in Detroit, Michigan. On this date in 1982, he and a few friends were at a local bar celebrating his upcoming wedding. […]C.N. Lee PhD
- I now have an agent!I have written a book for a popular audience, and it has been a long and interesting process. I'll probably write about it in detail when things have moved farther along. For now, I am very pleased to have signed a contract with an agent. The book is about two projects I directed near Cuernavaca, Mexico. It tells the story of the residents of these site […]Michael E. Smith
- Professors Join the PrecariatWhile the stereotype of the college professor might still be an elbow-patched intellectual cozied up in an office, it might be more accurate to place him in his car. A new report from the American Association of University Professors finds that more than 40% of college instructors are part-time, often driving from campus to campus to cobble together enough […]Lisa Wade, PhD
- Happy Birthday, Jürgen Habermas!Source: Nick*Rad. Have a scholar we should commemorate? Send us a cool pic and we will! (View original at http://thesocietypages.org/socimages)Lisa Wade, PhD
- CFP: The 2013 International Congress on Digital HeritageDIGITALHERITAGE2013 27 October – 1 November 2013 Marseille, France www.digitalheritage2013.org INVITATION Join us in the 2013 European Capital of Culture, Marseille, France, this fall for the world’s largest gathering ever focused on Digital Heritage. A joined event of the leading scientific … Continue reading →Aaron Glass
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- trowelblazers: Yusra - Expert Excavator of Mount Carmeltrowelblazers: Yusra - Expert Excavator of Mount Carmel: trowelblazers: Yusra (left) with Dorothy Garrod (right) at Mount Carmel in 1934.Image 1998.294.52, reproduced here with permission from the Dorothy Garrod Archive, Pitt Rivers Museum. All rights reserved. Like many a woman before and since, Yusra had a dream: to go up to Cambridge, and become a…
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Realities of the job: “Just finish it in the...richiedcruz: Realities of the job: “Just finish it in the office” One of the most common mistakes crew chiefs and project managers make is to cut corners in the field, and to just let someone fix it in the office. I, for instance, have been tasked with doing graphic design for an important report. Specifically, I am digitizing profile sketches. The report is […]
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ILLUSTRATIONS OF SNOWFLAKES (1863)
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- "those joys were so small that they passed unnoticed, like gold in sand, and at bad moments she could..."“those joys were so small that they passed unnoticed, like gold in sand, and at bad moments she could see nothing but the pain, nothing but sand; but there were good moments too when she saw nothing but the joy, nothing but gold.” - anna karenina - leo tolstoy (via scribble-scribbles)
- "It has occurred to me that this picture-taking might in some ways be an excuse to touch and pet and..."“It has occurred to me that this picture-taking might in some ways be an excuse to touch and pet and hold the iPhone itself, which has a weirdly calming effect on people, as though it were an amulet or maybe a small living animal. I am guilty of all the smartphone sins—in essence, staring at the phone when you should be staring at life. It’s possible that th […]
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Cool stuff: A flint knapped colorless bottle base...richiedcruz: Cool stuff: A flint knapped colorless bottle base I found. Hey, cool. I wrote a paper about expedient knapped glass tools used by lepers in Hawaii.
