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...country back to Congo (from Zaire). He brought inflation down from 900% to 5%. He attempted to build a professional army. But what Kabila didn't do was broaden his political base beyond his own tribe. And he began using arrests of politicians and journalists as a management tool...
...student Clay Zimmerman's photograph of a large home sitting behind a highway. The house is illuminated, orange and bright, while the highway is dark, a thought-provoking color contrast reminiscent of Rene Magritte's eerie painting, "The Empire of the Light." For Zimmerman, technology is not only a tool, but also a subject: the house is nearly dwarfed by two satellite dishes, creating a juxtaposition of homey architecture and lonely telecommunications, all dramatically illuminated with highway and house lights...
...Place newly purchased hat on head. Note the high, sloping forehead, the flattened brow/brim. You look like a Neanderthal. Using scissors, remove the fibrous underbelly found inside the front of the cap. Congratu- lations... you've entered the Tool...
...some of the clay surfaces--evidence of woven fibers from about 25,000 years ago. Intrigued to find signs of weaving from this early date, Soffer and her colleagues examined 8,400 more clay fragments from the same and nearby sites, eventually coming across the traces of a likely tool of the communal hunt--a mesh net. The entire theory of man-the-hunter had been based on "durable media," Soffer explains, meaning items like the sharpened stones that can serve as spearheads, rather than softer, biodegradable goods like baskets, fabrics and nets. But in archaeologically well-preserved prehistoric sites...
Beginning the lecture by declaring himself a Derridean "amateur" at art history, Riley used the collection as tool in order to elucidate some interesting issues in theories of architecture. Although at times his analyses of the works seemed a little farfetched. he did present some intriguing questions about the role of architecture...