I’ve tracked the uproar over The Stringer since it first became news. Watching all this unfold has evoked a number of ruminations — not just on that photo, the film, and the charges involved but on the forensic investigation of photographs as a project. […]
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Mainstream/legacy media’s abject surrender to the oligarchy, the sane-washing of Trumpism, the craven kowtowing and risk-aversion, make it clear there’s no hill they’ll die on. They’ll simply expire. […] During the Covid pandemic many people were calling for a “New WPA” to help alleviate the cultural crisis while, in fact, CETA was a more viable model. It had received bipartisan support in 1973, and was actually signed into law by Richard Nixon! […] While keeping a sharp eye on the political situation, we have taken some steps toward improving our personal infrastructure, so as to make us as self-sufficient as possible. […] |
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Straight Outta Stone Ridge: Small-Town Talk (4)
The Swiss architect Le Corbusier defined a private home as a “machine for living.” So this winter, just now ebbing, put our “machine for living” to the test. Which it passed with flying colors. […]