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Street life | adaptivereuse.net
Rated May 22 2009 • 2 reviews • politics, art, arts, parasites • adaptivereuse.net
Homelessness is a global problem that has no easy solution. The social basis for this problem is found in the ownership and territorialisation of space, a process which would be better understood as the disastrous failure to provide inhabitable space for life in general.
Because homelessness has many different causes and is faced with many exacerbating responses, it may never have a complete solution. But a particularly appalling example of the 'inventive small-minded malevolence' that takes a problem like homelessness and makes it worse is what I would call the anti-sit movement. Exposed in great detail by Mike Davis in his study of Los Angeles, City of Quartz, the anti-sit movement attacks the homeless, vagrants and lingerers by using malicious anti-sit devices. Anyone who is not a paying customer is for the wealthy residents and businesses the target of medieval-style torture. Some examples of anti-sit devices are below, found here. It seems that in many cities today the wealthy classes, rather than acting to end homelessness, would prefer designing uninhabitable spaces, little altars to the cruelty of the dollar.
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The Zymoglyphic Museum Curators Web Log: A Fictocryptic...
Rated May 21 2009 • 0 reviews • arts, art, museums • blogspot.com
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Alessandro Bavari - Sodom & Gomorrah
Rated May 21 2009 • 2 reviews • painting, arts, art • zonezero.com
The Gate
Lot's progeny
Curious art by Alessandro Bavari. From the Gate to Lot and Pillars of Salt in the Bible to imagining the cities in between, this art does its thing in some ways like midrash, which (unlike the 'original sin' model of Christianity) allows freedom of interpretation and even biographical redemption within the paradigms of scripture.
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Prints from Blue Chair Press
Rated May 21 2009 • 1 review • arts, books, art, dictionary • bluechairpress.com
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Janine Flynn & Blog Archive & Presenting… Hirst...
Rated May 19 2009 • 0 reviews • arts, weblog, art • janineflynn.com
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Uncensored: Frances erotic art - Times Online
Rated May 16 2009 • 0 reviews • history, france, arts, art, erotic art • timesonline.co.uk
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Liverpool museums - The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt |...
Rated Apr 13 2009 • 2 reviews • animals, arts, art • liverpoolmuseums.org.uk
"This was the first major painting Hunt made during his first stay in the Holy Land. He had the idea for the picture while studying the Talmud (the collection of ancient Rabbinic writings that forms the basis of religious authority in Orthodox Judaism) for information on Jewish ritual for his painting 'The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple' (now in Sudley House). Hunt's researches disclosed that on the Festival of the Day of Atonement, a goat was ejected from the temple with a scarlet piece of woolen cloth on its head. [The goat] was goaded and driven, either to death or into the wilderness, carrying with it the sins of the congregation. It was believed that if these sins were forgiven the scarlet cloth would turn white."
