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Correspondence is not the way of communication in the 21st century. More and more is said with buzz words and abbreviated slang. It’s getting easier to forget that there was a time when subtle, deliberately constructed letters, ripe with frustration and emotion, were the common form of exchange.Guy Debord lived in such a time. Born in Paris in 1931, he was a founding member of both the Lettrist International and Situationist International movements, and he wrote letters—a lot of them. The SI movement attempted to use art for social and political change. Indeed...
...neither can break the encryption just beneath the surface of the mutual chatter that seems to elicit so much wrath and illuminate as little common ground. Maybe the only hope that the people of the West can understand the subtlety and beauty of the Islamic culture comes in the form of a docu-drama made up to look like an historical epic—one whose patronizing tone is only outpaced by its incompetent execution. Bruce Neibaur, director of “Journey to Mecca” (though only one of its culprits), seems to advocate this theory. This...
...images are able to emphasize something that is normally absent for typical media reports,” says David R. Odo, Harvard lecturer on anthropology and visiting curator at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. “[But] there is no single form of knowledge sufficient to capture or understand human experience. We need to use many forms. Photography, and indeed the arts more generally, can contribute to this.”Yet even this small exhibition is able to produce a powerful effect for many viewers. Rahimi says, “It is vital...
...before it can illuminate the course of mental diseases and disorders.To produce the maps, researches add specialized genes to individual neurons, causing them to glow fluorescently in different colors. A connectome’s map is built by developing pictures of individual slices of nerves, and combining them to form a larger image of a passageway, like taking slices of a pipe and putting them back together. “Picture a radio in the olden days that is full of wires soldered together,” Sanes says. “Imagine slicing it into slices one millimeter thick...
Though Netanyahu's right-wing Likud Party took only second place in the contest, President Shimon Peres asked Netanyahu to form a government on Friday after a majority of the country's Knesset members backed the Likud leader for the job. Israeli politics has taken a dramatic shift to the right since the war in Gaza, and as a whole, right-wing parties fared better in the election than did the centrist Kadima Party - which finished first by a slim margin - and the crippled leftist Labor Party...