February 2012
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Nightmares on Wax
— Thinking of Omara
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WatchNatureza Morta (‘still life’, and more literally, ‘dead nature’) – a small-scale video-mapping artwork by the São Paulo art collective BijaRi, projected in 3D onto a table containing paper weapons and a towel.
Part of Estado de Sitio (‘state of siege’), an exhibition at Choque Cultural art gallery, opening today and running till the end of March 2012.
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'There is no such thing as a political crime: it... →
The Recorder ‘There is no such thing as a political crime: it is either a crime or not a crime.’
Prisoner ‘I am aware that that has been argued in the Courts, but custom has now proved that that is wrong. For instance, there are the cases of O’Brien, Cobbett, and Dr. Jameson… Technically, of course, I suppose I must be judged to be guilty, but morally I am not guilty;...
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The Smiths
— I won’t share you
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You will never kill piracy, and piracy will never... →
Now that the SOPA and PIPA fights have died down, and Hollywood prepares their next salvo against internet freedom with ACTA and PCIP, it’s worth pausing to consider how the war on piracy could actually be won.
It can’t, is the short answer, and one these companies do not want to hear as they put their fingers in their ears and start yelling …
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Many Mail Online readers leapt from the tyres they...
“Once you’ve clambered over the broken grammar, deliberately placed at the start of the sentence like a rudimentary barricade of piled-up chairs, there’s a tragic conundrum at work here.”
Charlie Brooker in the Guardian, writing about the bumper crop of comments on a Mail Online article, ‘Rightwingers are less intelligent than left wingers’.
There was a...
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Jeff Briton
— Rub out
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“Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing,...”
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Wislawa Szymborska, 'Mozart of poetry', dies aged...
The Polish president joins tributes to Nobel prize-winner, calling her the country’s ‘guardian spirit’ –
See the Guardian obituary; and this poem, posted in the Comments:
On Death, without Exaggeration
It can’t take a joke, find a star, make a bridge. It knows nothing about weaving, mining, farming, building ships, or baking cakes.
In our planning for tomorrow, it...
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Cowboy Junkies
— Murder, tonight, in the trailer...
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