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slaughter-books · 8 months

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Day 16: JOMPBPC: Favourite Genre

I love contemporaries! 💚

#justonemorepage #jompbpc #favourite genre #contemporaries #simon vs the homosapiens agenda #the upside of unrequited #leah on the offbeat #love creekwood #kate in waiting #becky albertalli #beautiful books #amazing authors #lgbt+#boo #i love books

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drsonnet · 8 days

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Hind Rajab was a 5 year old girl in Gaza who was killed while she hid alone in a car, along with the paramedics who tried to rescue her. Yesterday students at Columbia seized the administration building and renamed it in her honor.

Gadzooks Bazooka Instagram: gadzooks_bazooka

Remembering #HindRajab & children in #Gaza: This is what the mother of the child, Hind Rajab . https://tmblr.co/ZTeZMyfB_GHeeu00

DrSonnet — هذا ما قالته والدة الطفلة هند رجب عندما سمعت بخبر... (tumblr.com)

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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses · 6 months

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the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies”#serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited...#i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest.#it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!'#'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members...#..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)'#anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language?#maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value”#and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs)#happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills)#and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on...#...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works?#beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

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victusinveritas · 4 months

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"In Pieces but Still Holding It Together." By Bouke de Vries (2020).

See more of his stuff here.

#bouke de vries #ceramics #art #contemporary art #porcelain #glass

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uclamikefranks · 1 month

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Timeline of parallel lives. Scroll (slowly) and see who was alive at the same time, in three groups: Culture, Discovery/Science, Leadership. Plus, their ages are given. Very interesting tool to see who was alive when. Drawn from Wikipedia but unfortunately, I didn't see any links to articles about these people.

Still a very cool way to see who were famous contemporaries. I'd love to see this data searchable.

#history #famous people #timeline #contemporaries #scientists #explorers #leaders

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elixir · 4 months

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Moonrise Phyllis Shafer — 2015 oil on canvas

#art #painting #portrait #oil painting #contemporary art #curators on tumblr #abstract #illustration #graphic design #aesthetic #college #landscape #photography #modern art #nature #nature photography #landscape photography #green #naturecore

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miamaimania · 2 months

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Journey into the Surreal: Virgil Finlay's Illustration for 'Famous Fantastic Mysteries', 1943

#art #science fiction #contemporary #famous fantastic mysteries #surreal #virgil finlay #illustration

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kharacore · 1 year

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jenny holzer

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lichtberg · 3 months

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AAAA/The Useful Idiot

2024

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#cat #cats of tumblr #early internet #keyboard #keyboard cat #cat portrait #contemporary art #artists on tumblr #airbrush #painting #art #airbrush art #cat art

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slaughter-books · 2 years

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Day 16: JOMPBPC: Favourite Genre

I love contemporaries! ❤️

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groupcritpowerdynamics · 11 months

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Friends in Distant Places, chalk pastel on paper

2023

#drawing #contemporary drawing #contemporary art #fine art #chalk pastel

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oliverscarlin · 2 months

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Carolein Smit - Rakker mit gouden trannen (Rascal with golden tears) (2009)

#Carolein Smit #sculpture #ceramic sculpture #contemporary art #contemporary artist

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disease · 4 months

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ABACUSYNTH by ELIAS JARZOMBEK [2022]

Abacusynth is a synthesizer inspired by an abacus, the ancient counting tool used all around the world. Just like an abacus is used to learn the fundamentals of math, the Abacusynth can be used to explore the building blocks of audio synthesis.

#elias jarzombek #abacusynth #technology #instruments #synthesizer #innovation #abacus #contemporary art #music #video #u

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mcpirita · 5 months

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