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Last night I was admiring a colorized photo by NVA war photographer Luong Nghia Dung of an artillery duel in 1968. I am haunted by its striking similarities to Corot’s Barbizon school plain air painting.
Here is his obituary. KIA 1972.
https://t.co/ffMilFfLZ3
William Roberts, an original Anzac, and his family evicted from their Redfern home into the street during the Great Depression, Sydney, 28 Sep 1934 / photographer Sam Hood.
color David Sargeant
https://t.co/I5kTJ2E6iP
From the World of Science to the World of Research?
Science is certainty; research is uncertainty. Science is detached; research is involving, & risky. Science puts an end to the vagaries of human disputes; research creates controversies. @BrunoLatourAIME
https://t.co/zzIv8RkZ28
"That the future belongs to start-ups is not a fact of nature but a policy outcome.” @evgenymorozov on the need for a post-solutionist politics
https://t.co/ap2RhrVnT9
"It is the abdication of politics that has made eurozone sovereign debt unsafe. In 2010-12 that abdication did disastrous damage. Faced with the financial legacy of the Covid-19 crisis, we cannot afford a repeat performance.” @socialeurope
https://t.co/HqMQRFkHey
"a suspension between the too-early and the too-late ... we live in an interregnum whose effects penetrate through to every pore of our lives and deaths, but whose character we cannot see, cannot describe.” Gavin Walker
https://t.co/WxfDNEsrCD
https://t.co/jBuxuo0fD4
Technocrats of the Imagination
Art, Technology, and the Military-Industrial Avant-Garde
John Beck
Ryan Bishop on collaborations btw US avant-garde art world & military-industrial complex in 1960s in venues like Bell Labs, RAND looks fascinating
@DukePress
https://t.co/hnwDRqJ4RR
Google images for “whatever it takes” and you might be surprised at what you find!
Lockdown Sunday night:
Take yourself to @ArtBasel Hong Kong.
See a remarkable cross-section of top notch global art in beautifully curated online viewing rooms.
Pour a glass of something nice, sit back, click and enjoy!
https://t.co/F0vRkbcFwA
Croatian Dubravka Šuica is Europe’s first Commissioner for Democracy and Demography a sign of the East-West consensus on a new European natalism.
Nice piece by @TheEconomist Charlemagne
https://t.co/MBmYVO1Ny7