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    urban shangri-las

    Research Blog | August 13, 2013

    Here is a news story about a rooftop mountain retreat built illegally atop an apartment building in Beijing:

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    Archigram’s Log Plug

    Research Blog | May 13, 2013

    .. for living naturally.   from Archigram’s archive. They rock.

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    Landscape as con art

    Research Blog | May 11, 2013

      NYT Article on employing feng shui around public spaces as manifest obfuscations in Chinese gov’t corruption coverups.

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    Cat Hairball Jewelry

    Research Blog | May 9, 2011

    Celebrate National Hairball Awareness Day

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    OOO for dummies (like me)

    Research Blog | March 2, 2011

    I’ve been scampering and doing a troll-like stumble,  following along with Tim Morton‘s logorrheic flights for some time now, and gotten twinks of excitement about things like Speculative Realism and Object Oriented Ontology (OOO).  Of course I have no thorough (or even scanty) background in this stuff or its antecedents, but it gets me tweaked,…

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    “Imagine what we know.”

    Research Blog | February 23, 2011

    The subject line is Percy Shelley’s. This part of an  essay by Tim Morton, “Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There!” included in  the exhibit/site RETHINK — Contemporary Art & Climate Change (2009). Among other provocative chunks and challenges: Along with figuring out what implications science has for society and so on, humanists should be asking…

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    The Contemporary Condition: Fragile

    Research Blog | September 17, 2010

    “I don’t for a second buy into the story, promoted both by deep greens and by the right, that Mother Earth will just brush us off and recover. Faith in an all-powerful deity is precisely a way to ignore hyperobjects. Some people commented on my previous post on hyperobjects, wondering whether God could be considered…

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