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GENERATION GAP #2: Artistic Research in Contemporary Beirut
Marwa Arsanios and Vartan Avakian are still young. They belong to a generation of artists who grew up during the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990), and their unique experience with artistic research in Lebanon is revealing new narratives for a catastrophic…
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Google.cn Update
So Google still hasn’t pulled out of China. But today the company unblocked previously censored sites: “Web sites dealing with subjects such as the Tiananmen Square democracy protests, Tibet and regional independence movements could all be accessed through Google’s Chinese…
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A Chat with Zap Mama
Marie Daulne’s music reflects the story of her life. Her father, a Belgium colonialist, was killed by child rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo shortly after impregnating her mother, Cyrille Daulne. After his death Cyrille emigrated to Belgium,…
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American History X-treme
A former neo-Nazi’s memoir describes a violent life in the white supremacist movement and his transformative experiences in prison.
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The Best Detail…
The best detail about the Senate parliamentarian is not that he is a mysterious figure with a question mark for a head. Or that his last interview was 22 years ago. Or that Senate Historian Donald Ritchie has only seen…
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Movies, Briefly: Octopussy (1983)
When people claim Casino Royale is a “realistic” Bond movie, they don’t mean it’s realistic in any sense that relates to the real world, because it’s not and it doesn’t. They mean it’s more realistic than 1983’s Octopussy, which makes…
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Life Graphs
HTMLGiant asks an important question: does your life suck (normal life) or blow (successful writer’s life)?
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More Jake Gillespie
Have you read The Rumpus Interview with Jake Gillespie yet? Once you do, click here to view more of his work.
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Social Media Bust
So when is that new facebook friend not really a friend? When they’re a law enforcement agent using your online info against you. Whether checking an alibi against status updates or looking at photos for signs of suspicious activity, the…
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This eBook Belongs To…?
“Think of a bookplate as a wedding ring binding the reader to the book, and vice versa. The symbolism isn’t so far apart: ownership, possession, desire. […] The digital book has no front or back covers; there is no place…