Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...work for Netscape in 1994. Finally, he figured, things would be different. "These guys are going to be so rich, it's not funny," he believed. Not that Zawinski cared about money. Though Silicon Valley is supposed to be the new Hollywood for programmers, where ambitious code-writing kids slave at start-ups with every expectation of retiring by supper, Zawinski is a hacker of the old school. He has always aspired to something grander: to change the world. At the top of his resume, he'd carefully spelled it out: "employment objective: To improve people's lives through software...
Turning to the installation as a whole, we're tempted to find some sequential continuity in the processional arrangement of figures Walker's title supports this literary drive, evoking the conventions of 19th century slave narratives: "Presenting Negro Scenes Drawn Upon My Passage Through the South and Reconfigured for the Benefit of Enlightened Audiences Wherever Such May Be Found by Myself, Missus K.E.B. Walker, Colored, 1997." Yet our search for narrative unity is frustrated by fragmentation, as all mythic histories and fantasies are. The figures run into each other, and we can hardly determine on which of the Carpenter Center...
...same time, we're trapped by the double bind of voyeurism, appalled at what we witness, yet unable to take our eyes away. Here again Walker allies herself with the writers of 19th century slave narratives who knew all too well that violence and sexual titillation wee useful tools for attracting readers to the horrors of their plight. Walker admits to her "love for the unnecessary flourish," and it is precisely those formal details, whether salacious contours or languorous gaps, which captivate and torment...
...could get a job," Jerry claims, "but it'd belike being a slave...
...realized that it was going to take up all of my time, and it wasn't worth it," Ankur N. Ghosh '01 says. "If the Core were smaller, I think I might have done the pre-med requirements, but I knew that would never happen, because Harvard is a slave to the Core." Ghosh is now an English concentrator with no plans toward pursuing a medical degree...