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Lina Viste Grønli (?)

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Private diaries are the world's largest untapped literature source

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I keep screwing up my face at Heavy Traffic whenever I dislike the prose style or clunky metaphors. I'm clearly a syntactic snob even in my current deskilled era... I've been on a liquid diet of L's Intellectual Situations and Manny Farber's film reviews lol

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the sickest novelty gift possible

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Word of the day

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Why do women want Fran Leibowitz so much more than they want me?!? I'm an interesting jew. Why isn't that enough

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Damn the Sokal affair was a real conservative moment huh. It's like parodic pseudo-science faux-leftist critical theory used to skewer leftist relativist/deconstructionist academics

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Samartians 2: Revenge of the Samaritan (an exhibition slated for 2027) will be

Desaturated where Samaritans was Colorful

Slow-cooked where Samaritans was Rushed

Disengaged where Samaritans was Moralistic

Disciplined where Samaritans was Playful

Intangible where Samaritans was Commodified

Dryly conceptualist where Samaritans was Hand-rendered

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As my twenties draw to a close, I have made a lot of progress in mentally apprehending two sources of frustration:

1. finally refusing the chain of abuse from my romantic partners (every girlfriend getting a pass to insult, humiliate, blindside and cheat on me while I begged them to stay). From the inauspicious start with Anna, this was a viscous cycle

2. finally understanding why I wasn't getting the residencies I was trying for. I had nothing even remotely resembling a fine arts portfolio!? A handful of cool but strikingly incohesive pieces. Comics, fashion design and illustrative portraiture combined with small shambolic sculpture and maximalist wall mounted knowledge-objects. This is nowhere in the ballpark of what even the most open-minded admissions committee would be looking for. When you discount my populist strengths with comics and fashion the fine arts stuff has no conceptual throughline whatsoever, and the portraits aren't exactly portfolio worthy. I guess I thought the portfolio attested to my work ethic, but there's no way that's the sole evaluative criteria. I know precious little about fine art, just coveted the artistic freedom I guess? Wanted to see what happened if I tried? What's wrong with any of the things I was good at- writing or comics? Why not pursue opportunities for those things? Big wtf. (Note: It was just 2-ish residencies and then a research practice art program twice.) Now that I've spent a handful of months doing "fine art" on my own, it's mostly out of my system. Born to roam...

All of my friends and family helped me make progress on these huge blindspots

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One of the best mixed songs ever?

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paraSITE, Michael Rakowitz, 1998-ongoing

Plastic bags, polyethylene tubing, hooks, tape

Different urban sites in New York City, Boston and Cambridge MA, and Baltimore MD Exhibited at MoMA (2005), MassMOCA (2004), and elsewhere

Custom built inflatable shelters designed for homeless people that attach to the exterior outtake vents of a building’s Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system. The warm air leaving the building simultaneously inflates and heats the double membrane structure. Built and distributed to over 30 homeless people in Boston and Cambridge, MA and New York City.

Joe H. using his paraSITE shelter in February 2000. Joe is a homeless man who lived on the streets near Battery Park City in Manhattan. In the 1970s, he became a contractor and was responsible for building over fifteen buildings in Brooklyn. He was diagnosed with cancer in the 1980s after being exposed to Agent Orange while serving in the Air Force in Vietnam. After forty-seven different operations to treat the cancer, the Veteran’s Association of America ceased paying his medical bills and he went bankrupt.

Michael M. using his paraSITE shelter on 26th Street and 9th Avenue in New York. Michael was a homeless man who worked for the United Homeless Organization. He wanted to respond to an obscure anti-tent by-law being enforced by the Giuliani administration, which stated that any structure 3.5 feet or taller set up on city property would be considered an illegal encampment.

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Are there any here that you don't know or understand? The Delanda on Deleuze book was my only intro to Nonlinear dynamics in my life... Pattern Formation is the one I'm least familiar with

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