Author: PGR
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this means nothing to me
Aaah—Vienna. Sight for sore eyes after a delayed night-train. So you enjoy the earworm, while I go enjoy the sunshine for a bit.
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ut på spåren igen
Going to Austria, BRB. Talking at the Futures Brought To Life symposium, with various other veterans of what was once the Weird Futures scene. Livestreams will be available, apparently, if you’re not in town.
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much more than a dispassionate record of events
The retrospective coloring of historical judgment shows that history is much more than a dispassionate record of events; it is a dynamic, living web of interpretations. We are not doomed to a false choice between purely objective facts and revisionism, with its often-groundless contestation of those fact[s]. Instead, we ought to observe, carefully and critically,…
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02MAY22 / accessions
Actually bought on Saturday, but whatevs. Accessions department takes weekends off sometimes.
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peter cook
Yep, the Archigram guy. (Insert your own “Dudley Moore notable by his absence” gag here.) From his just-now-ending retrospective exhibition at Louisiana, Denmark. A fifty-plus-year career of drawing the wildest way-out shit and still managing to package it as architecture*; an inspiration for eccentrics of all sorts. Beating that sort of path for yourself anywhere…