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Nauman is good at a particular sort of put-on, a sour clownishness. He makes art so dumb that you can't guess whether its dumbness is genuine or feigned. When you see his spiral neon piece The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths, you assume it's irony, the cadaver of "inspirational" American romanticism-until you reflect that maybe that's what Nauman really thought, or what the vestigial romantic in him would have liked to think, but in no case can the mere neon sign deliver on its promise, and this frustration (one assumes...
...without coordination and enforcement, the individual incentive reigns supreme. Although all nations with rights to fish in the area have a group interest in sustaining the fishery, each individual nation has an incentive to overfish, so long as all others play by the rules. This dynamic produces a downward spiral that results in the destruction of the resource...
Since those elections were annulled, the country has been trapped in a vicious spiral of atrocity and reprisal in which each new level of military repression only accelerates the radicalization of Islamic sympathizers. Now the three-year campaign of assassination and sabotage between government and guerrillas has risen to the point where the lives of up to 1,000 victims are snuffed out every week. Together with an economic tailspin that has reduced the gross domestic product 8%, the violence has ushered in a profound social and political paralysis from which it seems all but impossible to break free...
...sincere admiration of "breath-taking bigotry" is a classic stereotype of Southerners that is blown so out of proportion that the revelation that he is really Middle Eastern, not a Phillips but a "Babaganush," is only part of a dizzying spiral of distortion. In "A Murder of Crows" reality is not only indistinguishable from fantasy but transcended...
...torture. The thugs, who are thugs' thugs, do not use guns. They smash and stab with clubs and knives. But they are not alone, even the milque-toast David becomes barbaric, sawing up bodies with mad concentration. David's dramatic character change signals the flatmates' descent into a predictable spiral of paranoia...