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Attanucci Timothy
TIMOTHY J. ATTANUCCI (1979) was born in Boston, Massachusetts and studies German literature at Princeton and the Humboldt University, Berlin. For META, he contributes his musings on the irony mark in No Irony.
Beth David
DAVID BETH (1974) is a writer and esoteric explorer, and the sovereign Grand Master of the Ordo Templi Orientis Antiqua. Learn more about his Gnostic involvement in XI. ARS DE REX—Sexual Magic, the Art of the King, where he is interviewed by Ailen Roc.
Brenner Summer
SUMMER BRENNER is an accomplished writer of poetry and fiction, based in Berkeley, California. Her writing has extended beyond the borders of print into performative and musical realms, and she is also involved with literacy and community projects targeted at youths. For META, she reads from her critically acclaimed novel and discusses her motivation for the project in Driving I-5.
Breuning Olaf
OLAF BREUNING (1970) is a Swiss artist, living in New York and working in photography, video, sculpture, installation and drawing. For META's mini interview series, he shares some of his favorite things in accompaniment to a selection of photographic works. See Mini Breuning.
Buchina William
Illustrations by William Buchina
WILLIAM BUCHINA (1978) is an illustrator with a penchant for portraits of political tyrants. In addition, he is a graphic designer and creator of illustrated guides to English grammar. Some of his work is viewable here. He currently lives and works in New York. See his work in The Body of the Event.
Bunnell Dave
DAVE BUNNELL (1952) lives in the small gold-rush era town of Angels Camp, California. This professional spelunker and photographer worked on an Imax film about caves, somewhere beneath Mexico. META interviewed him for Far Beyond Stalactites and Stalagmites.
Coronato Petra
PETRA CORONATO is probably the only author in the world who didn't only read Alexanderplatz, but also swept it. She is the owner of tongue tongue Hong Kong, a company founded in 1993 with dependences in Berlin, Vienna and Zurich, which recycles fiction profitably and unpunished to this day. In 2006, she commenced the ongoing photography project The Poetry of Document.
Croteau Jeffrey
Writer Jeffrey Croteau is the Manager of the Library and Archives at the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum and Library in Massachusetts. Read another of his articles on American Masonic groups, ''Brotherly Deception'' published in Cabinet Magazine here. For META he co-authors a discussion on ritual and fraternity for the article Daughters of Job.
Dantini Michele
MICHELE DANTINI's (1966) work is characterized by its handling of trans-cultural practices and their socio-environmental implications. A widely translated essayist and performative lecturer, he holds a position as Professor of Contemporary Art History at the Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy. See Chronicles of Deaths Foretold.
Doutreluingne Pauline
PAULINE DOUTRELUINGNE (1982) lived in Beijing for four years, where she co-organized the 2006 Borderline Moving Images Festival. She lives in Berlin and curates projects that bridge European and Asian art. For META, she interviewed Chen Wei in Archeology of the Future.
Doy Gen
GEN DOY is Lecturer at De Montfort University. She is the author of Picturing The Self, Drapery and Black Visual Culture. For META, Doy discusses the sensual politics of photography in the works of Claude Cahun.
Ferrante Denise Palma
DENISE PALMA FERRANTE (1975) is a multi-disciplined artist living and working in Berlin. She is also a self-declared anti-religionist. See Timkat 2009.
Foxwell Adam
ADAM FOXWELL is an American audio engineer who has worked internationally, consulting on acoustical room design, sound isolation and mechanical noise control. For META, he presents a study on noise exposure in On the Hunt for Silence in Dubai.
Fresco Jacque
JACQUE FRESCO (1916) is an industrial designer and social engineer, author, lecturer, inventor and Futurist. Based in Venus, Florida, he is developing the practice of Socio-Cyber-Neering. Read the META interview Back to the Future—The Venus Project.
Gavron Assaf
ASSAF GAVRON (1968) is an Israeli writer, translator and musician. His novel CrocAttack is available in Hebrew, English, German, Italian and Dutch. Find out more on his website and see The Outpost.
Glaser Bruno
Dr. BRUNO GLASER is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Soil Science and Soil Geography at the University of Bayreuth. For over several years he has been conducting Amazonian dark earth research from a soil science perspective including soil fertility, sustainability, and archaeology aspects. See Terra Preta .
Goldwyn Mara
MARA GOLDWYN (1976) calls herself an artist but does not show anywhere and would never actually introduce herself as such. She has an existential allergy to genres, categories and identity constructs. See Showing the Opposite Side of the Death Machine.
Green Linda
LINDA MAI GREEN (1987) is a photographer and curator based in Berlin. She also co-runs curatorial collective Una Tittel. For META article A Bridge and Not a Goal, she interviewed artist Serena Porrati.
Guo-Qiang Cai
Artist CAI GUO-QIANG (1957) was born in China's Fujian Province. While living in Japan between 1986 and 1995 he began to experiment with gunpowder as a medium, gaining international attention. He has gone on to exhibit world wide and to produce large scale pyrotechnic art works. See On Explosions.
Hill Patrick
Sculptor PATRICK HILL (1972) has exhibited widely in the US and internationally as an important representative of the contemporary Los Angeles art scene. David Kordansky Gallery provided META with images of Hill's work for Patrick Hill—Sculpture, Associated.
Horvitz David
ASDF Makes founder DAVID HORVITZ (1983) is a man of many ideas. One could say this American artist's medium is the Internet, though it may be more accurate to say that he works in interactive projects. See ASDF—Read On.
Huanca Donna
RUA MINX is Donna Huanca (1980), an artist who deals with clothing as shelter, transportable homes for nomads and cultural and genetic traces. Her various projects have received a range of support, from the Dallas Museum of Art to Städelschule, Frankfurt; from the Incehon Women's Biennale Korea to British Vogue. She launched META's downloadable artist piece series with Mask Maker.
Hugo Pieter
Artist PIETER HUGO (1976) has spent his whole life in Cape Town, South Africa, though travelled extensively pursuing his characteristic brand of documentary photography. A 2002-3 residency at the Beneton Group Communication Research Center, Fabrica, also led to work with Colors magazine. In 2006 he was awarded first prize in the World Press Photo competition's Portraits section. Welcome to Nollywood explores a recent project carried out with the Nigerian film industry.
Idnert B. Zlatan
ZLATAN B. IDNERT is an audio engineer who has worked in the fields of modelling for outdoor noise propagation, building acoustics and ground borne vibrations. He has widely consulted on acoustical engineering projects. See On the Hunt for Silence in Dubai.
Kempenaers Jan
JAN KEMPENAERS (1968) is an artist and documentary photographer based in Antwerp. He creates mute images of semi urban-places. Regardless of geographical context, his photographs speak powerfully to the post industrial condition and of the technologized human subject. See Spomenik, the Monuments of Former Yugoslavia.
Lin Tao
TAO LIN (1983) is an American poet, novelist and short story writer. He is the author of Shoplifting from American Apparel, Eeeee Eee Eeee, and Bed, as well as two poetry collections, you are a little bit happier than I am, and cognitive-behavioral therapy. Lin's second novel, Richard Yates, was published in September 2010.
See Tao Lin's Crossword Puzzle.
Lu Tammy
TAMMY LU is a Canadian artist who makes drawings and artists' books. She is the cover artist for the New Metaphysics philosophy series published by Open Humanities Press. See more of her work here. For META she did the drawings for METAphorism.
Maisel David
DAVID MAISEL's (1961) photographs chronicle the complex relationships between natural systems and human intervention. His work is included in many permanent collections, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Maisel lives and works in the area of San Francisco. See Blooming Souls.
Malone Alison
Alison Malone is a photographer and educator who uses both audio and visual documentation to explore subcultures that are overlooked and often misunderstood in American society. View additional work here. For META her photographic series of the same name inspired the article Daughters of Job.
Maximishin Sergey
SERGEY MAXIMISHIN (1964) photographed for the Soviet Military Force Group on Cuba from 1985 to 1987. A learned physicist, he worked in the scientific and technical expertise laboratory in the Hermitage Museum and has gone on to become an award winning press photographer.
See The Dostoevsky of Photography.
Mendoza Connie
CONNIE MENDOZA (1971) is a media artist, working between Berlin and Barcelona. Fata Morgana and Other Optical Phenomena discusses her film, in which Mendoza travels back to her birthplace to trace the complex relationships of her childhood to Chilean history and space travel, thereby producing images that mediate the perception of time as a highly subjective matter.
Mitsios Apostolos
Apostolos Mitsios (1979) is a Greek psychologist, working as a systemic psychotherapist by day and as a freelance writer, preferably, by night. A former contributing editor at online design magazine yatzer.com, he is currently collaborating with the Projective Fairy Tale Test Society in Greece as well as various magazines all over the world. For META article, Death of a Performance, he interviewed artist Esther Ferrer about her intervention at the Cemetery of Art of Morille, Spain.
Morrison Rachael
RACHAEL MORRISON (1981) is an artist, curator, and a librarian at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She is the creator of an art work and a documentary film about the blind telephone hacker Joybubbles, as she describes in 718-362-9578.
Morton Timothy
TIMOTHY MORTON (1968) is a philosopher and ecologist, and a teaching professor at Rice University. He also is one of the leading figures in the philosophical movement of Speculative Realism. For META he penned some pithy aphorism on the paradigm shift in metaphysics. See METAphorism.
Neutelings Jan
Architect WILLEM JAN NEUTELINGS (1959) has taught at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam and Harvard University. His firm, Neutelings Riedijk Architects, is located in Rotterdam. He wrote Spomenik, the Monuments of Former Yugoslavia on Jan Kempenaer's photo-documentation.
Nielsen Nikolaj
Nikolaj Nielsen is a Brussels-based journalist. For META, Nielsen considers the provocative film "Enjoy Poverty Please" by Dutch artist Renzo Martens in regards to the The Lucrative Business of Chaos and Aid. For more of Nielsen's writing, visit his website.
Oennerfors Andreas
Andreas Önnerfors (1971) is Associate Professor in the History of Sciences and Ideas based in Lund, Sweden. He has written extensively on organized fraternal sociability in Europe in the context of civil society, cryptology and conspiracy theories. In 2007 he re-enacted a female masonic ritual, contributed to the deciphering project of the copiale-manuscript and commented on the Oslo terrorist Breivik's imaginary world of knighthood in counter-jihadism. Watch a 2012 lecture on "Perceptions of Freemasonry from the 18th century to the Internet" here. For META he co-authors a discussion on ritual and fraternity for the article Daughters of Job.
Okón Yoshua
Yoshua Okón was born in Mexico City in 1970 where he currently lives. In his often absurd and provocative art, Okón stages partially scripted scenes using non-actors whose own identities and histories make up the true, underlying story. See Octopus. Okón founded the artist-run space La PanaderÃa in 1994 and the artist-run space and school SOMA in 2009, both in Mexico City.
Patt Lise
LISE PATT is the founder of the Institute of Cultural Inquiry, a peripatetic visual think tank currently headquartered in Los Angeles, CA. Over the years she has treated 'collaboration' as an artist medium, in the development of a non-profit organization that embraces 'collective camouflage' in their ongoing projects. See Inquiry into the Institute of Cultural Inquiry.
Petrovszky Konrad
KONRAD PETROVSZKY (1977) is a historian specializing in the intellectual history of Southeastern Europe. He wrote a PhD thesis on early modern historiography in Ottoman Europe at the Free University, Berlin. He talks Romania and reenactment in The Body of the Event.
Porrati Serena
Italian artist SERENA PORRATI (1981) is now currently enrolled in the inaugural year of the MA in Art and Science Program at Central St. Martins in London. She lets META in on her Nietzsche in Turin archive for Linda Green's article, A Bridge and Not a Goal.
Quehenberger Susanne
SUSANNE QUEHENBERGER is a Cultural Studies student at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Her focus is climate change, specifically its potential to bring about societal restructuring and the role of art in this scenario. Since 2007, she has worked as an urban gardening activist. For META, she shares her thoughts on geoengineering in Artificial Skies.
Rameau Max
Haitian-born, DC-raised MAX RAMEAU is a pan-African theorist, organizer and founder of the group, Take Back the Land. He has worked on issues ranging from economic development to ex-felons. He discusses the US housing crisis in Desperate Times, Desperate Measures.
Rau Milo
MILO RAU (1977) is a journalist, essayist, historian, playwright, translator, teacher, film-maker, blogger, reenactor and director of IIPM (International Institute of Political Murder, or Institute for Theoretic and Artistic Reenactments). See The Body of the Event.
Roc Ailen
AILEN ROC studied various esoteric fields such as ceremonial Magick, Sexual Magick, Tantra, Astrology, Tarot, the Quaballah and different astral-levels along with Psychology. She is currently working on her own tarot deck and a book combining certain occult fields with elements of psychology. See XI. ARS DE REX—Sexual Magic, the Art of the King.
Shapiro Alan
ALAN SHAPIRO (1956) is a key contributor to the fields of idea philosophy, software engineering and social choreography. At 15, he began studying at MIT and has more recently published a book on Star Trek and given talks at the Transmediale and Ars Electronica festivals. In an interview with META, he explains why "Being against work as it is constituted today is fundamental.†See A New Computer Science is Underway.
Situ Studio
SITU STUDIO was founded in 2005 while its partners were studying architecture at The Cooper Union. Operating at the intersection of architecture and a variety of other disciplines, Situ Studio's work has been enriched by close collaborations with geologists, writers, engineers, biologists, activists and artists. See Out of Control.
Small Gary
GARY SMALL, M.D., is the Director of the UCLA Memory and Aging Research Center at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. He is the author of iBrain Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind. See This is Your Brain on Technology.
Thompson Cosette
COSETTE THOMPSON is a French-American human rights consultant and freelance writer based in Arizona, USA, where she directed Amnesty International for many years. Her current interests focus on the contribution of artistic expression to the field of human rights and on the protection of threatened languages. See Sentenced to Read.
van Haarlem Dr. Michiel P.
DR. MICHIEL VAN HAARLEM (1964) is the Managing Director of the LOFAR Foundation in the Netherlands, a part of the ASTRON Institute. The astronomer discusses the next generation of telescopes in META's Harmony of the Spheres.
Vanden Eynde Maarten
Belgian-born MAARTEN VANDEN EYNDE (1977) lives and works between Rotterdam, Brussels and Saint Mihiel. His projects span all art media, focussing on topics of ecology, archeology, biology and zoology. In 2006 he founded Enough Room for Space for "the creation of physical, virtual and mental space for cultural initiatives by initiating and coordinating events and residence/research projects worldwide.†He enlightens META on plastic in Plastic Reef.
Walmark Ulrika
Swedish photographer ULRIKA WALMARK (1970) traveled across North America, Israel, Palestine, Iran, India and South Africa from 2003 to 2007, collecting portraits for her project The person behind the person. She now lives in Berlin.
Wei Chen
Artist CHEN WEI (1980) works in Beijing and Hangzhou, incorporating influential objects and happenings from his past into the realities of modern China. He is represented by the Platform China Contemporary Art Institute in Beijing. See Archeology of the Future.
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|On Explosions
|This is Your Brain on Technology
|Plastic Reef
|Daughters of Job
|Death of a Performance
|Out of Control: Experiments in Participation
|Terra Preta—Amazonian Earth
|A New Computer Science is Underway
|Mini Breuning
|Claude Cahun—A Sensual Politics of Photography
|The Clothing of Nature
|Power Secretaries
|On the Hunt for Silence in Dubai
|Far Beyond Stalactites and Stalagmites
|The Body of the Event
|Sentenced to Read
|Spomenik, the Monuments of Former Yugoslavia
|XI. ARS DE REX—Sexual Magic, the Art of the King
|Tao Lin's Crossword Puzzle
|The Art of Showing Art
|Photography and the Invisible
|Patrick Hill—Sculpture, Associated
|Driving I-5
|Blooming Souls
|Showing the Opposite Side of the Death Machine
|Mask Maker
|Desperate Times, Desperate Measures
|A Bridge and Not a Goal
|This is Your Brain on Technology
|Artificial Skies
|The Poetry of Document
|Stories of Life and Love in Today's Actual Arctic
|Fata Morgana and Other Optical Phenomena
|The Nine Lives of Kaufhaus Jonass
|ASDF—Read On
|No IronyØŸ
|The Harmony of the Spheres
|Back to the Future—The Venus Project
|Inquiry into the Institute of Cultural Inquiry
|The Lucrative Business of Chaos and Aid
|The Outpost
|Welcome to Nollywood
|Chronicle of Deaths Foretold
|Timkat 2009
|The Dostoevsky of Photography
|Archeology of the Future
A page of WG Sebald's note-making, the first home AIDS test, a collection of earth samples and an antique encyclopedia of Freemasonry. What do these things have in common?
META found that one answer is their shared home in a non-assuming building on the outskirts of Beverly Hills Los Angeles. Upon entry into this building, one is struck with the subtle yet palpable energy that is generated from such objects—the carriers of information and history. Objectsare charged with the energy of their provenance: where they come from, who possessed them, what they have 'seen' and how they have been used. As the by-products of culture, objects can be studied—through research, collection, display, archiving and preserving and "collective tinkering.†This is the work of the Institute of Cultural Inquiry, which also makes its home base at this Los Angeles site, though the ICI's practices transcend the notion of four walls usually ascribed to the term 'institute' as well as the objectivity often associated with research.
This is an institute that attempts to understand and explain a great deal while avoiding understanding or explaining too much. Begun over 20 years ago as a non-profit organization, the ICI has been conducting a grand exposé of visual culture, while maintaining the utmost respect for its secrets and serendipity. Long term projects have explored the ICI Associates' shared understanding of such concepts as time, happenstance, marginalia, visuality and art. Their work is centered around varying, interrelated archives such as the Earth Cabinet, Ephemera Kabinett and a 2,500+ volume library.
In 2008, the ICI ceased public activity in order to undergo a reconsideration of their place within the current, overpopulated landscape of alternative cultural spaces. After two years, the 100/10 project (100 days/10 visions) announced the ICI's return and their refreshed sense of adherence to the mandates of their early days:
[…]to conceptualize art as an open, cross-disciplinary culture-building activity not only as an elitist, show and tell leisure, entertainment or spectacle activity; to keep our organization lean and flexible so that it can respond to the urgencies of the culture we live in; to nourish points of intersection between artistic and academic research with collaborative efforts that reach across disciplines; to offer artists and other culture producers an environment for collaborative, long-term projects whose methodologies rely not just on innovation but on excavation, rejuvenation and renovation as well; to conceptualize all our efforts as open and malleable projects not administered and entrenched programs; and to honor our 2-decade old dictum: to speak only when we have something to say.
Perhaps the following selection of what they do have to say, as discussed by ICI Founder Lise Patt, will present an overview of the Institute's extensive work. Perhaps it will further convolute their undertakings, already shrouded in light layers of mysteriousness and complexity. In either case, it will provide some insight into the living, breathing artwork that is the Institute of Cultural Inquiry.
At the Institute, we think of time in a circular framework. We hold out our arms to a future that is rushing towards us, not just a past that is speeding away.
In 1990, employing a new concept at that time, the ICI was begun in the virtual space of the Internet with a small number of soon to be founding Associates communicating via an online MOO. The system, now outmoded, served as a platform for discussions that reared an entity which would become the ICI. This was given an official form as the organizing body behind the AIDS Bottle Project, one of the Associates' various tactical responses to the pandemic and the first of their long-term undertakings.
Today, the Los Angeles headquarters functions as a repository for archives as well as an exhilarating space for collaborators and visitors. Patt explains,
Our satellite 'labs' are linked to the key Associates of the ICI—seven individuals—who are dispersed throughout the world and either work or live in London, Sri Lanka, Ghana, Germany, Berkeley, New York and Venice, Italy. With the Institute constantly in mind, they create a space for our work to occur in distant sites by collecting data, by 'noticing' (see below) and by hosting individuals who are sympathetic to our cause. We can imagine a day in the near future when the ICI exists in real time only through its satellite sites with the ICI website acting as our headquarters.
The possibility of this return to their hyperphysical beginnings would echo their belief in a circular passage of time. It would also follow their tendency to challenge terms like 'institute' and 'lab'. In this equation, person = lab, thus allocating those involved with a higher function.
100/10 is structured around 10 such labs. Visual researchers (the term preferred over 'artists') were invited to curate 10 individual exhibitions over a period of 100 consecutive business days. The premise was the curators' interaction or their "play†with the ICI's eclectic space and archives and the extension of these into other spaces, both physical and virtual. The stretching and collapsing of time is implicit in each of these 10 projects, due to the curators' revivification of the ICI archives.
The first lab was conducted from January 31 to March 3, 2011 by curator Alex Harvey, who highlighted the question that continually haunts the ICI archive: Does the personal story and its nostalgic retreat underpin all studies of history and its documents? He worked with artist Anna Ayeroff on a multi-medial document of her journey along the path traveled by her grandfather, who along with fellow pioneers established a Jewish utopian settlement in Clarion, Utah in the early 20th century.
Harvey approaches the problem endemic to any archive, be it a collection of stories and recollections or a physical cabinet housing tangible artifacts or ephemera: how to maintain an objective view of the past, un-manipulated by the romanticizing powers of memory or the distorting nature of hindsight?
Ayeroff's "Clarion Calls†is a research-based exploration that draws parallels between utopias and history—both of which are rooted in the paradox of being a 'better' and 'non-existent' place.
An exercise like 100/10—a call for interpretation, where each visual researcher's process leads to the discovery of new connections and overlaps—invites the occurrence of another cardinal ICI concept:
We embrace the noteworthy alignment of two or more events or circumstances without obvious causal connection as an opportunity to motivate and accelerate thought and not as mere coincidence. W. G. Sebald said the more one is attuned to look out for coincidence, the more frequently it will occur. It's a matter of not dismissing the inconsequential, of being a 'noticer,' as Luc Sante calls it, someone who stands back with arms folded, eyes moving from one part to the next, withholding interpretation as long as you can. Most artists are good observers, but the minute you raise a finger and say look here, you loose the ability to see the little thing at the side that is rapidly falling out of view. It's hard to do, but once you open yourself up to this stance, it becomes very productive.
Over the years, many ICI collaborators have happened upon the Institute under seemingly casual circumstances. Even we at META found the ICI due to a mere typographic "error†while searching for the Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin Germany. Contributions to the various archives have arrived in much the same way: by chance. Take, for example, the cryptic Manual of Lost Ideas, believed to have existed for centuries, passed down between varying caretakers. This can be physically described as a suitcase with the word "Lake†printed on its side and filled with a collection of loose leaf documents—photographs, letters, drawings and news clippings.
This vessel is said to have come into ICI possession in 1955 accompanied by a typewritten commentary by Arturo Ott, one of the various 'custodians' of the Manual.
Though extensive research has been conducted into the origin of the contents, very few concrete conclusions have been drawn. Could this truly be a receptacle of such varied documents as 13th century French Masonic Lodge records, modernist abstract photographs and writings in the Aztec language Nahuatl, presumably added by one custodian: a possible translator for 16th century Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún?
The stimulating possibilities surrounding such objects, their collective history and their rather inexplicable appearance are challenged by a nagging tendency toward disbelief. Some stories seem too fantastical to be easily perceived as 'true.' Even the disappearance of many Manual items is enigmatically linked to a missing ICI Associate, responsible for photographing the MLI prior to 1989 when he vanished without a trace. This simultaneously confounds the narrative and supports the existence of many fabulous collection pieces as mere reproductions of their now missing originals. Later additions to the Manual reference earlier documents, allowing the collection to build upon its own, already potentially mythic beginnings. Whether the original contents of this case and their reproductions actually result from coincidental bestowals, heritages and confidences cannot be proven. But should there be need for this? The demonstrable fact is that it happens to belong to the ICI, thus having served, time and again, as the catalyst for deeper cultural investigation.
Extracts from the Manual fill the margins of Benjamin's Blind Spot: Walter Benjamin and the Premature Death of Aura, part of the ICI's ambitious publishing project now in its fourth phase. The books take on a broad study of visuality. Searching for Sebald explores the late author's pairings of text and image, fact and recollection, literature and art. The other three publications make up an "eye series,†analyzing these canonical texts: Georges Bataille's The Eye, Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, and - the current work in progress - Roland Barthes' Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography. It was also happenstance that provided the final impulse for this current project.
…a missing piece that gives meaning to what were, up to that point, disparate and seemingly unconnected elements. But truthfully, we really do operate under the "nip at the heel†maxim. Joseph Beuys spoke of the 'budding idea' that was like a dog nipping at the heel. For a while you can shoo it away, put it off, but at some point you have to say – ok, enough already, let's go out and play. Our book on Roland Barthes is like that dog. All good reason says we should put off that book and focus our attention on a figure that isn't white, male, and dead (as we have for our last three books). But we've put this book off for almost 15 years. We had intended for it to be our first publication. The "dog†won't let us put it off any longer, especially after we saw a copy of a page from W.G. Sebald's copy of Camera Lucida that was covered in marginalia (W. G. Sebald was the subject of our 3rd book). Sometimes a small "sign†like that is all we need to tip a project from the "shoo away†stage to a "ok, let's go out and play,â€
explains Patt, describing the sort of noticing, of perceiving the markings along the margins of life, that is crucial to the Institute's work.
What is marginalia but a note to a future you—a reader that returns to the book or a note to a yet unknown reader that, when it is read in conjunction with the main text, acts to collapse time as you pivot between thoughts and ideas. Part of our history already exists in the future.
Patt's quote celebrates the role of the side comment and reflects the ICI's interest in the objects or occurrences existing along the borders. Gazing at the hazy edge around culture's fickle spotlight is an act of focusing, or rather allowing the view to go out of focus.
…there will always be some elements that are "out of focus,†or unseen (discarded, lost, forgotten, disappeared), objects, flutters, slips, that enter our visual registers and are not acknowledged or "registered†in the symbolic (conscious) order. We believe this visual "marginalia†can often provide the most productive elements for building an understanding of how technologies of visuality impact our life, our histories, and our dreams.
One way of capturing these fleeting elements for the sake of later analysis is the archive. ICI's Ephemera Kabinett is a trove of "odd, slowly disintegrating ephemera.†Patt highlights some of the articles, clippings and 'firsts' that have been amassed over 15 years, forming a depository for visual culture in its diverse manifestations:
We have the first Marvel comic in which a main character comes out of the closet. We also have the first "over the counter†post-coital birth control (Plan B), which is very controversial since it tests the boundaries of what birth control means.
For certainly Plan B is birth control but for some people it is also an abortion pill (like President Bush who held up the approval of the drug for 2 years), and it shows that the boundaries are often the place of slippage and, if we're lucky, of discourse and new ideas. And then we have more historical "firsts†like a piece of fabric from Christo's wrapping of the Reichstag, the first project he did in Germany, the first AIDS red ribbon or a piece of candy from the first exhibition by Felix Gonzalez-Torres in which he built one of his famous (give-away) candy corners.
Marginalia can refer to our cultural detritus, to the things that get shuffled to the side. The culling of material from the fringes has been a sort of decades-long performance carried out by the ICI. The Associates and other related visual researchers collectively tinker with so-called marginal objects, technologies and information as a means of delving further into visuality's profoundness.
I would say we have a strong affinity for those [visual]"technologiesâ€â€"and I used that word broadly, in a Jonathan Crary way to mean "systems of knowledgeâ€â€"that are still part of the cultural narrative even though their representative "tools†(i.e., machines) are on their way toward obsolescence. One way to "out†these technologies' continued influence is to investigate obsolescent machines. At the same time, we're equally interested in the newest tools of visual literacy. Given our concept of time, we generally tend to see the similarities, not the differences, between tools of the future and tools of the past, at least for now. I don't think we've entered into a huge paradigm shift regarding man's relationship to the machine, although I'm not ruling that out in my lifetime.
With an understanding of vision as the great organizer of thought in our current culture, the ICI places a special focus on studying the technologies of visuality, wherein technology is defined as a system that generates processes and knowledge in order to extend human capabilities and wherein visuality is defined by physiological and social, innate and learned "ways of seeing.â€
Our ways of seeing are inarguably affected by the technologies available to us. Some ICI Associates use the Enlightenment paradigm shift from monocular to binocular vision as a point of departure for exploring the tools that affect visuality. Outmoded tools serve investigative research into where our current culture has come from and where it is going.
In 2009 a filmstrip collection and projector found their way to the ICI. Hours of classroom-like film footage on topics ranging from "International Costumes†to "Introduction to Multiplication,†from "Islam and the Modern World†to "Leaving the World†provide evidence of teaching methods in the era of this particular technology of visuality. While the full scope of its value may not yet be known, the filmstrip collection has been rescued from the threat of destruction (or of simply being forgotten about), arriving at the ICI in the usual mysterious manner.
While serving as a tool for ongoing research, this material has also provided impetus for new artistic, visual production. But, where do the borders between research and creativity lie? Between the research processes of the sciences and art? More than just a practice of collecting, archiving and researching, the ICI Associates consider their work as a grand-scale performance and, thus, themselves as performers. Could this not be a cause for inspiration and relief for all those entrenched in 'work'?
Are we not all artists?
Building worlds is a creative act. We understand art as a uniquely open field of possibilities inside society that can be used as a catalyst for imaginative speculation and as a stimulus for finding creative solutions to some of the most difficult challenges of our times.
For 100/10∆1, artist Anna Ayeroff reactivated the ICI filmstrip archive in the building of a world—a cosmic utopia, blending her family history with her personal philosophy. She froze moments from a filmstrip related to cosmic dust within a series photographs: visual cues for this ghost world of her past and her psyche.
100/10 is the first project to be conceptualized within the ICI 2011-12 study theme of PHANTOM WORLDS—real and imagined worlds that double, mirror and reflect our own. Phantom worlds can be duplicate worlds, not necessarily alternate universes but ones that exist beside our own. The theme includes our obsession with reflections, with Lacan's belief that the mirror is instrumental in our formation. We're interested in places where these phantom worlds leak, bleed through, where they can be seen or can't be seen but can be sensed or in other ways 'read.' Does philosophy begin where our world and its phantom meet up, when our search for home ends? "Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.†(Novalis)
The final iteration of 100/10 serves as the other bookend, buttressing META's attempt at deciphering the ICI's work. The 10th project, "Mappa Mundi: The Earth Project,†also plays with phantom worlds, though not so much in terms of existing elsewhere in time, but in space. Coordinated by ICI Fellows Jojo Black and Elisa Baek, this is a participatory act of the terra publica (people of the earth) in their creation of a world map charted out by human experience. An online phantom of the ICI Earth Cabinet, this map is devised of earth samples in digitized form (images, audio and video of different places), viewable by a click on their global location markers. As a supplement to its analog double—the refurbished communion chest situated at the ICI in LA—the growing collections of earth samples transport viewers, allowing for a brief second of escape to the alternate places which exist behind the digital representations or within the dirt particles. These digital and earthen signifiers continue to grow in numbers, to be combined with the other dynamic ICI archives, and to strengthen the pulse emanating from within the Institute's walls. This then vibrates outward toward its satellite labs and beyond to all those who have participated in or witnessed the collective tinkering, building worlds of connections along the paths to an unforeseeable future of collaborators and projects, of inquiry and play.
…because we do operate intuitively most of the time and yet everything we do ends up making sense in the end (again, the idea of future rushing back to meet us).
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Mad Jack The Pirate lasted just 1 season on Fox, but was enough of a success overseas that it's been released on DVD everywhere but in the US, insofar as I know. Go figure, right?
Anyway, series creator Bill Kopp (ex-Eek! The Cat, Toonsylvania) voices the title character, who, despite his myopic self-esteem, is really a coward at heart. Captain Hook would disavow any knowledge of inspiring this clown and his sidekick, Snuk (Billy West). Saban was Fox's primary provider of children's programming at the time, and, as previously documented, fumbled the ball the very next year with a pair of Marvel properties (Spider-Man Unlimited & Avengers: United We Stand), which was the beginning of the end of their association with the network.
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Kennedy Rhodes turns down an acceptance to an elite private school, instead choosing to stay at her high school and jump at the opportunity to date the boy of her dreams. Three years later, Kennedy walks in on that same boyfriend cheating with her best friend—and wishes she had made a different choice. But when Kennedy hits her head and wakes up in the version of her life where she chose to attend the private school, she finds that maybe it's not as perfect of a world as she once thought.
Jessica Brody's novels never fails to make me laugh. At least her contemporary novels never fail to make me laugh. In Some Other Life is a reminiscent of her previous book A Week of Mondays, but instead of repeat a single day this book explores the possibility of a parallel universe. So, Kennedy being a teen, witness something all teen girls in love hate to witness and that is her best friend kissing her boyfriend. And also being a teen girl, she becomes dramatic and runs away from her problems by wishing that she should've gone to Windsor Academy instead of turning them down when she had the chance to attend. Because hey when the guy you've crushed on for a couple of years finally notices you and ask you out of course you'd follow him, right?
I really liked seeing Kennedy's duo personalities. She's no Jekyll and Hyde per se, but it was interesting to see how her current self interact with the people who supposedly knew her at Windsor before she switched places with her other self. It would've been even more interesting to see that Windsor Kennedy in Southwest Kennedy's shoes. (I'm probably confusing you, right?) Throughout the book her little brother is the only one that seems to know what's going on and not only that he doesn't seem too concerned about it, but instead is fascinated by the whole thing. It's adorable that he keeps trying to find something different about himself when the rest of her life is upside down.
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For the last several years Paul Counce has been part of a team studying blast resistance in rice.
"Research has shown when a variety very susceptible to blast — like Newbonnet — is flooded deeply and continuously, it becomes resistant to blast for the season," says the rice physiologist at the Rice Research and Extension Center in Stuttgart, Ark. "By keeping it flooded, you're increasing resistance. Fleet Lee (a rice disease specialist heading the research) calls this 'field resistance.'"
Some varieties tested with blast spores in the greenhouse are very susceptible. However, when carried to the field and flooded, the same varieties gain resistance. Cypress is one example.
"Our research group wanted to know why this is the case," says Counce. "It turns out when you flood rice it must be able to feed oxygen into the roots. It does this by using 'ethylene.' When a flood is put on, the substance builds up and some of the cells in the roots begin dying. Those dead cells leave hollow tubes that allow air to reach the roots."
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Try these tips and learn how to plan for weekend weatherThe weather can make or break travel plans, holiday plans and weekend plans. Most people have to work during the week, meaning they look forward to having the weekend off to spend time with friends, family or singly for outdoor activities and pursuits.
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Avoid having to cancel weekend plans due to poor weather and unpreparedness by learning how to plan for weekend weather ahead of time. Follow the tips below to keep your weekend plans from being derailed and make the most of your time off work.
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Knowing the weather ahead of time can help you determine or modify your weekend plans. For instance, if the weather is expected to be nice, you may decide to plan a family day out at a water-park or perhaps camping. However, if rain or snow is expected, indoor activities such as going to the movies or shopping at the mall with friends are preferred.
The right type of clothing may help you navigate through any weekend plans without having to worry about cancelling. If you plan to spend the day outside and it's expected to be cold and windy, wear a warm jacket and scarf to keep you toasty while walking.
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0889 - All-Star Baseball 2004 USA 64 Mbits (Venom)
ANyone play this? Looks good, except for that dumbass Derek Jeter. How was the gameplay?
Every baseball game should have the same batting system as Baseball Advance.. that was the ULTIMATE system... Its a shame no one else has used it
Does anyone know if there will be a new Baseball Advance and when? I agree on the gameplay, it was nice. I'm getting baseball fever but don't know which game to wait for.
Sound in this dump is lousy to say the least.
this game is a little too easy, but i think the baserunning controls suck
All-Star Baseball 2004 does use the same batting system as Baseball Advance.
REALLY???? Hmm, I might have to try it.. Can anyone else confirm this?
All-Star Baseball 2004 does use the same batting system as Baseball Advance. [/QUOTE]
Uh...no....not even close. I do hope that there's asequel to Baseball Advance. In fact this game's a simple.
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Do Ukrainian women make good wives?
A concept of good wife includes few main points that lady of such honorable status must have. If you want to know why Ukrainian women make good wives, the answer is because they possess all these main features. What are those features of good wife? – Beauty, good housewife, caring mother, supportive wife, intelligent wife.
First of all man is looking not a housewife for wife, pardon me for tautology, but for person who could go with him for life, supporting him and helping if needed. Of course, this woman has to be the reason of friends and random pedestrians envy because of the beauty and at the same time this beauty would satisfy his personal taste in everyday sexual and usual life. But family life is something much deeper than was briefly described in a previous sentences and beauty is not enough to satisfy man in family life. Man needs to have real support which could be given by good housewife. Smart man would like to combine the woman's beauty and her housewife skills. Such a perfect type of woman could be easily found in Ukraine. Read also: Ukrainians who married to Australian
Are Ukrainian women good housewives? Yes, they are. Must tell that things are changing and modern young Ukrainian girl in case of house holding is much different than women at the age of 40 in Ukraine. If those Ukrainian women in their 40 s looking for husband U.S. or any other country, it is the best choice for you. Young Ukrainian women are more emancipated and were risen up differently and in more liberal way than their mothers. That is why she would like to share house work with her husband and divide house duties. Along with it she would demand your help in raising children. She would also like to find a job and work, earning money unlike Ukrainian woman in 40's who would entirely depend on her foreign husband, but at the same time do all the housework and never asking husband for help.
What is meant by the meaning of housewife? Housewife must know what is happening in all spheres of her family, including her own life, husband's life and life of children. She immediately has to react properly if needed and this has to be done in a slight manner. Among personal duties are cleaning the house, do shopping, control family expenses concerning cooking utensils and detergents, washing clothes, preparing food and do dishes. One more big deal for a wife is rising up children as it is well known that the most energy and care child gets from mother. Ukrainians women for centuries recommended themselves as caring mothers.
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Maori Education is the education of Maori, for Maori, sometimes in Maori, often about Maori but always to the benefit of all Maori and non-Maori alike. Ninety per cent of Maori students are in main stream school settings and Te Akatea will enhance the educational opportunities of all Maori learners, regardless of the setting.
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Growth demand from key application markets coupled with increasing need for high performance plastics in automotive industry expected to drive the demand
San Francisco, California (PRWEB) August 18, 2014
The global market for plastics is expected to reach USD 654.38 billion by 2020, according to a new study by Grand View Research, Inc. Growth of major end-use industries such as packaging, construction and automotive particularly in emerging markets of China, India and Brazil is expected to remain a key driving factor for global plastic demand. In addition, the need for high performance thermoplastics from automotive industry in order to reduce the overall vehicular weight to gain fuel efficiency is also expected to have positive influence on market growth. Volatile raw material prices coupled with growing environmental concerns regarding plastics disposal and sustainability is expected to pose a serious challenge to market participants. In order to overcome such challenges leading industry participants have been actively investigating the route to develop bio-based alternatives to conventional plastics.
Polyethylene (PE) emerged as the leading product segment for plastics and accounted for 34.9% of total market volume in 2013. PE is used in high volumes across various industries such as film and sheet, injection molding, blow molding and pipe manufacturing. Increasing PE capacity addition, particularly in the Middle East and Asia Pacific has led to overcapacity in the market which has seen the prices decline. PET is expected to be the fastest growing product segment for plastics, at an estimated CAGR of 8.5% from 2014 to 2020.
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- Global plastics demand was 233.75 million tons in 2013 and is expected to reach 334.83 million tons by 2020, growing at a CAGR of 5.3% from 2014 to 2020.
- Asia Pacific emerged as the largest regional market for plastics and accounted for over 44.6% of total market volume in 2013. Increasing construction spending coupled with growth of the regional automotive industry is expected to drive plastic demand in Asia Pacific. Central & South America is expected to be the fastest growing regional market for plastics, at an estimated CAGR of 6.3% from 2014 to 2020. Rise in disposable income coupled with the growth of major end use markets in Brazil and Argentina is expected to drive the demand over the next six years.
- North America and Europe are relatively mature markets for plastics and are driven by new technology and innovation in the field of bio-based and sustainable alternatives. North America plastic demand is expected to grow at an estimated CAGR of 4.3% from 2014 to 2020.
- Some of the companies operating in the global market include BASF, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Dow Chemical Company, SABIC, LyondellBasell Industries, ExxonMobil Corporation, Formosa Plastic Group, Total SA, Bayer Material Science, Arkema, Celanese Corporation, Chi Mei Corporation, Eastman Chemical Company and Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation.
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Bill McKibben's Rolling Stone Article Was a Hit — So Why Didn't It Make a Splash?
The mainstream media is reluctant to cover an issue that questions the very foundation of our economy
Have you seen the numbers on Bill McKibben's numbers? If you follow environment-related news (and even if you don't), there's a good chance you've read Bill McKibben's recent Rolling Stone article, Global Warming's Terrifying New Math. I know this because of the numbers displayed right below the article's headline: 112k Facebook likes, more than 12,000 mentions on Twitter, 7,300 Stumble Upon tags, and nearly 5,000 reader comments. "Wickedly viral," is how the New England-dwelling McKibben has described the response to the piece.
Photo by Nancie Battaglia/350.org
"After the article came out, a Rolling Stone editor called up Bill and said they had never seen anything like it," a 350.org staffer, Daniel Kessler, told me recently. Mark Neschis, a spokesperson for Wenner Media (the publishing group that owns RS), was coy about discussing readership stats with me. "We don't really get too much in[to] specifics about traffic," he wrote in response to questions about the article. But Neschis did acknowledge that the article "was the top performing story on our site the month it came out."
Without firm statistics from Wenner Media, figuring out the exact number of people who read the story is difficult. Still, the social media tags provide an indicator of the article's success. I can't find any other recent Rolling Stone story that even comes close. The magazine's damning expose of Stanley McChrystal, "The Runaway General," has less than a thousand thumbs-ups. Matt Taibbi's take-no-prisoners lashing of Goldman Sachs, with its infamous line comparing the investment bank to "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity," earned 15,000 Facebook likes. The only American magazine articles (excluding celebrity coverage) I can find that are in the same league are Jane Mayer's unveiling of the Koch Brothers in The New Yorker (122k likes), and the much discussed, and much derided, Atlantic essay by Anne-Marie Slaughter, Why Women Still Can't Have It All (201k Facebook shares).
At the risk of hyberbole, it appears that McKibben's Rolling Stone article is among the most widely read single articles on climate change … ever.
The success of "Global Warming's Terrifying New Math" raises a couple of important questions for climate justice campaigners, climate scientists, and journalists covering climate change and the environment. First, why exactly did McKibben's piece go viral? And, given its success, why was it greeted with such a yawn by the mainstream media?
To answer the first question, it's important to note that McKibben enjoys some advantages most environmental journalists don't. For starters, he wrote the first popular book on global warming, The End of Nature, more than 20 years ago, giving him unmatched credibility on the issue. Probably more important, he has a global grassroots movement, 350.org, at his back. I don't know of any other writers who can write an article and then blast it out to a 300,000-plus email list.
But something else is going on besides the mechanics of twenty first-century social media maneuvering. Clearly the article touched a chord in people. The piece provided a candid assessment of our environmental predicament and, in doing so, delivered to readers something they rarely get from national media outlets: Real talk about the unfolding climate change catastrophe.
McKibben's tone is bleak from the outset — terrifying math — and over the course of more than 6,000 words he barely lets up from the bad news. With global temperatures rising and vast stores of fossil fuels waiting to be tapped, we are in a "precarious —… almost-but-not-quite-finally hopeless — position." McKibben goes on to report that "among scientists speaking off the record, disgusted candor is the rule." He is also unforgiving to the environmental movement to which he belongs, and notes, rightly, that all the efforts to stem greenhouse gas emissions have added up to a "record of failure." This is a long read with a short point: we're in deep shit.
So, why, given all of this gloom-and-doom, did the article become such a success? Because it was honest about the danger we are in. At some level, most people understand that climate change is a serious threat we need to address. The extreme weather of the past year has only made the danger more obvious than ever. And yet the danger is all-but-ignored by our political leadership. McKibben makes this point himself at the very beginning of the article when he writes: "We're losing the fight, badly and quickly — losing it because, most of all, we remain in denial about the peril that human civilization is in." So it feels like a tonic when someone comes along and punctures the bubble of willful ignorance that smothers discussions of climate change. McKibben's article was a success because many people are hungry to hear the cold, hard truth about global warming.
Yes, you can find this kind of sobering analysis other places (tip o' the hat to Joe Romm, Dave Roberts, Justin Gillis, Elizabeth Kolbert, climatologist Ken Caldeira, and all the climate activists out there — you know who you are). But it's all-too-rare. Most American politicians, ever-cautious, don't want to touch to the issue. They're afraid of angering the all-powerful energy lobby or of alienating voters. (The second concern is unfounded, as you can see here.) Most scientists understand the risks we face, but scientists are conservative by nature, preferring to arrive at consensus among their peers before making clear-cut conclusions. Few scientists are willing to sound an alarm bell; they move at a glacial pace, even as the glaciers are melting. Who's left to tell the people about the predicament we're in? A mildmannered writer's writer.
McKibben's makes clear that we have a responsibility to address the climate change challenge: "this is, at bottom, a moral issue." Despite the often-glum tone of the article, McKibben remains hopeful that we can come together to confront this threat And, perhaps most importantly, McKibben isn't shy about naming and blaming the culprit of this unfolding crime against humanity: the fossil fuel industry.
The importance of naming an enemy can't be overstated. To fuel a fighting faith — which is what building a movement is all about — you need to have an adversary. For too long, too many of us (including the greenest of greens) have assumed that when it comes to global climate change, the enemy is industrial society, or the economy, or human nature itself. Supposedly we keep guzzling gas for the same reason we keep drinking Coke, even though we know it's bad for us: because it tastes good. McKibben offers a counter-narrative: We keep guzzling gas because there are a handful of mega corporations that stand to lose trillions of dollars (yes, you read that right) if we were to put a price on carbon. He couldn't be clearer. The fossil fuel industry "is Public Enemy Number One to the survival of our planetary civilization."
Sure, all kinds of bloggers and NGO-istas have made this case before. But rarely do you see this kind of language in a magazine you can buy in the airport.
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While "Global Warming's Terrifying New Math" was a hit among ordinary readers, it was something of a dud in terms of having a ripple effect in the larger mainstream media. Outside of the rather insular world of green media (see, um, here), the piece spawned few follow up articles, no new exposés or, as far as I can tell, any increase in coverage of climate change issues.
A comparison to another recent RS journalistic coup, its June 2010 profile of General Stanley McChrystal, is revealing. A Google search for "Rolling Stone" and "Stanley McChrystal" comes us with about 230,000 results. A search for "Rolling Stone" and "Global Warming's Terrifying New Math" generates 119,000 results. This is one indicator of what we already know: "The Runaway Genera" article made a huge splash, ultimately leading to McChrystal's resignation as head of US forces in Afghanistan.
In a way, the comparison is unfair. McKibben's piece is mostly a synthesis of existing science; he marshals numbers to craft a story. Michael Hasting's story broke real news with its depictions of high-ranking US Army officers making derogatory statements of civilian leaders that bordered on insubordination. It was bound to create more of a media frenzy.
But look at the response to The Atlantic's "Why Women Still Can't Have It All" by Anne-Marie Slaughter. Mostly a personal essay bolstered by some sociological studies, the article contained no new reporting and broke no news. It also handily beats McKibben's article, with some 205,000 search results.
This is part of a trend. Media coverage of climate change peaked in late 2009, during the Copenhagen summit, and has since dropped off dramatically. The decline in climate change coverage has occurred in both print articles worldwide and television broadcasts in the US. The American media has also done a piss-poor job of connecting the record-breaking heat waves and summer wildfires to climate change.
Why is this happening? A couple of factors are at play.
The US political establishment's neglect of the issue is a central reason why the mainstream media gets away with ignoring this existential threat. If President Obama or Mitt Romney don't talk about it, then the TV networks and national newspapers don't have too, either. The spike in media coverage in 2009 coincided with the torturous attempts by the US Congress to pass comprehensive climate legislation. The legislative silence that followed has paved the way for a media blackout. If the chattering classes (or the "very serious people," if you prefer) aren't discussing an issue, then it's not worth covering.
Given this reality, Romney's sophomoric climate change joke at the end of his Republican National Convention speech is the best thing to have happened to climate change coverage all year. The issue is a political football again, and that will mean at least a smidgen more coverage.
But there's something larger at work here. The media has a hard time wrapping its (herd-like, Borg-like) mind around climate change because climate change is the kind of story that calls into question the foundational assumptions of our economy and society. Unlike many other environmental issues, climate change isn't just a local concern: clean up this one river, protect this one forest. Nor is it just a technical glitch that can be solved by a little more transparency or a few well-targeted regulations. Climate change, like no other political controversy, reveals the impossibility of having infinite economic growth on a finite planet.
The most lucid take on this comes from Naomi Klein's 2011 article in The Nation, Capitalism vs. the Climate. Here's Klein's main point:
"The fact that the earth's atmosphere cannot safely absorb the amount of carbon we are pumping into it is a symptom of a much larger crisis, one born of the central fiction on which our economic model is based: that nature is limitless, that we will always be able to find more of what we need, and that if something runs out it can be seamlessly replaced by another resource that we can endlessly extract."
McKibben's RS article hints at this clash when he argues that, in order for us to keep Earth's atmosphere roughly in balance, the carbon barons will have to write off roughly $20 trillion in assets. This is not the kind of news that plays well alongside TV spots for pharmaceuticals of the latest full-page Macy's ad.
The media's built-in bias for staying close to the center of economic orthodoxy isn't going to disappear anytime soon. So, then, what is to be done? Here I'll defer to the wisdom of awesome media critic Robert McChesney: Our best bet is to democratize the media. We can't wait for major media outlets to tell the hard truths about the climate change threat. We have to do it ourselves — with our blogs and our independent media outfits, our NGO newsletters and our dinner table conversations. We can also do it through our social media tools.
Which means that the next time you see a hard-hitting story like the RS article pop up in a national outlet, be sure to hit that Like button and keep spreading the word.
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Leaving 20 trillion is the ground? That will require either some better technology appearing or making renewable energy and carbon sequestration the major focus of our civilization. It seems like a lot of jobs could be created by doing this and the other benefits would be huge (such as being able to continue our civilization). When I look around at the seemingly unnecessary and sometimes meaningless activities people are involved in to make a living, it makes sense that we could do it. Its a lack of leadership and the greed of a few stopping us, but we don't have to let it continue.
By john broberg on Fri, May 31, 2013 at 8:35 am
I have found that the main stream media doesn't cover anything of real importance they are afraid to take a stance on anything controversial. They are happy just telling everyone about the latest disaster but nothing about how dangerously close we are to loosing everything. At times I feel that Hollywood has a better perspective on globule disaster than anyone else does.
By Roger J. on Sat, September 22, 2012 at 10:56 am
Going backwards, willingly, in technological terms is out of the question. People are used to the amount of energy and number of petroleum-related products they use (for which many there exist no carbon-friendly analog). Many of the world's most successful enterprises not only thrive but exist only because of many of the power-hungry, greenhouse gas producing technologies. Sadly, change will not likely occur until the last possible moment.
By Zimzimzalabim on Sat, September 22, 2012 at 10:24 am
The Navy announced it will use alternative energy to the tune of 50% because of peak oil. The army is also gearing up to solar. The best book on the military aspect is Gwynne Dyer's book "Climate Wars".
Seems the top BRASS is very interested in global warming and are preparing for more "business" becasuse of it. Listen to Mr. Dyer on You Tube, he knows what he is talking about.
By VPK on Thu, September 20, 2012 at 3:45 am
The problem of climate change, as all other environmental problems, can be analyzed using the I=P*A*T equation, where I = environmental impact (such as climate change), P = human population, A = affluence or per-capita GDP, and T = technology factor, i.e., how polluting a particular technology is. Most of the discussion of climate change in the mass media has focused on the T-factor, i.e., how bad the fossil fuel industry is and the related fossil-fuel driven technologies (cars, airplanes, machinery, power plants, etc.). Although the problem of global warming has been created by technology, the proposed solution is more technology, although of a different kind: carbon-neutral energy generation such as wind, photovoltaics, etc. However, as was shown in the recent book, "Technofix: Why Technology Won't Save Us or the Environment (www.technofix.org), it is highly unlikely that renewable energy can be generated without causing other negative environmental impacts, particularly if it has to be generated at the scale to replace fossil energy. Furthermore, the mass media almost never cover the two other contributing factors to climate change, i.e., rising affluence (i.e., economic growth, which is taboo to question) and rising human population size (which is also taboo to discuss). Regarding the latter, it is interesting to note that avoiding the birth of single child has a much greater effect on reducing CO2 emissions than environmentally conscious consumer behavior. For example, if a person were to switch to fuel efficient cars (from 20 mpg to 30 mpg), reduce the number of miles driven by one third, replace ten 75 Watt incandescent bulbs with 25 Watt energy efficient lights, replace the old refrigerator with an energy efficient model, and recycle all newspapers, magazines, glass, plastic, aluminum, and steel cans, life-time carbon dioxide emissions would be reduced by only 486 tons, which is 20 times less than the CO2 emissions avoided by choosing to have one less child. Clearly, making a conscious choice to have fewer children is probably the most effective way for an individual to save the planet (for more analysis, see also Murtaugh and Schlax, "Reproduction and the Carbon Legacies of Individuals", Global Environmental Change, Volume 19, pages 14-20, 2009). Therefore, unless human overpopulation and even immigration (from poor to rich countries where per capita carbon emissions are higher) is addressed, it will be difficult to make a dent in the predicted rate of global temperature increase.
By Doctor Lionel on Tue, September 18, 2012 at 8:50 pm
You are all just lab coat politicians.
You lazy copy and paste so called journalists of climate blame belief have done to journalism and science what abusive priests and suicide bombers did for religion. It was a war crime and someday exaggerating a crisis with CO2 death threats to billion so of helpless children will see it's criminals of fear charged.
Oh and thanks for the pesticides science. Without you wouldn't have needed environmental action in the first place. Science is the enemy and not to be trusted.
By mememine69 on Tue, September 18, 2012 at 6:07 pm
22 TRILLION dollars is fossil fuels reserves on the books. Wow, that is like telling Adam and Eve not to eat the apple. How many people are employed directly by the fossil fuel industry? How many nations depend on the revenue from their export? How many young college students are studying to be employed by the fossil fuels industry? How many US Politicians depend on donations from the fossil fuel industry?
Just some questions that come to mind.
Very good article, and brings up the point that we are trapped in a vise that is hard to break free of. I mean I'm over 50 and I use fossil fuels as part of my nature. I can not imagine a world without it.
By Michael J on Tue, September 18, 2012 at 12:05 pm
The 5000 comments mirrors the nation's political makeup. 50% claim it is not due to humans and 50% accept the science.
A good graduate student project.
By Jeremy on Tue, September 18, 2012 at 10:30 am
I thank the writer for taking on this hard question but I partly disagree with his conclusion, which is Naomi Klein's conclusion. It may explain the North American myopia but this is a global crisis.
I prefer the view of Connie Hedegaard, the European Union's climate chief, as I think it opens more space.
In presenting the EU decarbonization plan for 2050, Hedegaard said "Climate protection done in a smart way is not about de-industrialization, it is about reindustrialization."
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