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...would be fraught with ethical and logistical difficulties. “I certainly wouldn’t go there with the idea of becoming a spokesperson for the army or an apologist for the war,” he says. “I’m interested in human stories, in what it takes for a young man or a young woman to leave home at 18 years old and suddenly find themselves transported into a situation where they might be killed for their country, about what it is to miss people, and what it is to come home...
...Atwood won’t let words rest. In the “The Year of the Flood”, she unravels and warps them, so that the surrealistic world she creates seems to stem from a perversion of its own language. There are pigoons (pigs with human organs) and mo’hairs (sheep which grow human hair for wigs) both products of the “Corps”—an alliance of corporations (among them, Happicuppa, HelthWyzer, CyroJeenyus) whose laboratories and workers live in gated communities. Outside the Corps are the Pleeblands, a proto-Gotham...
...levels. The political and cultural inspiration for the work are helpful for deciphering the monumental exhibition, although it is not necessary to have this background in order to appreciate the art. Foreknowledge or none, Ortega’s pieces are deeply self-reflective and display a striking understanding of human nature. Amidst all the larger than life installations, it is this empathy that shines through most clearly...
...American School of Prehistoric Research at Harvard’s Peabody Museum resulted in the discovery of the oldest fibers known to have been used by humans—a finding that helps date the rise of civilization due to the importance of string in the origins of human culture...
According to Naomi F. Miller, an anthropologist and research project manager at the University of Pennsylvania Museum, “string and twine are very important for the development of human culture,” making this a “remarkable discovery...