The night before trash day in suburbia rarely brings such exciting visions as this Duchampian fountain on my neighbor's curb. A tremendous storm---the first rain in many weeks---had just passed through, and the porcelain sparkled as if some great wet mythic meteorological Tidy Bowl Man had scoured everything clean. In suburbia, on the night before… Continue reading The readymades on my neighbor’s lawn; or, The ghost of Duchamp alights in North Carolina briefly and is gone.
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It’s Not Looting If You’re White
My friend Adam pointed me towards another example of egregious racism in the mainstream press: the captions on photos of looters in New Orleans. Both pictures show residents of New Orleans wading through chest-deep flood waters, carrying various goods. According to the two AP captions, in the first photograph a young black man is returning… Continue reading It’s Not Looting If You’re White