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Historical Archaeology and Ethnohistory of New York City: Tales and Microhistory of Gotham is a collection of narratives about people who lived in New York City during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, people whose lives archaeologists have encountered during excavations at sites where these people lived or worked. The stories are ethnohistorical or microhistorical [...]

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Age of the sociopath

The term Anthropocene not only doesn’t help us stop this culture from killing the planet – it contributes directly to the problems it purports to address. First, it’s grossly misleading. Humans aren’t the ones “transforming” – read, killing – the planet. Civilized humans are. There’s a difference. It’s the difference between old growth forests and [...]

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Simone Forti: Handbook in Motion (1974)

An account of an ongoing personal discourse and its manifestations in dance. Simone Forti is a dancer who has always forged her own path. She arrived in New York in the early 60′s from California. She brought with her a series of pieces that proved to be of serious influence on the development of “post [...]

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Liz Kotz: Words To Be Looked At: Language in 1960s Art (2007)

Language has been a primary element in visual art since the 1960s—whether in the form of printed texts, painted signs, words on the wall, or recorded speech. In Words to Be Looked At, Liz Kotz traces this practice to its beginnings, examining works of visual art, poetry, and experimental music created in and around New [...]

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John Willenbecher: Ray Johnson, Ray Johnson, Ray Johnson (1978)

The book reproduces a number of artworks, poems, and mail art examples by Johnson, an essay on Willenbecher by William Wilson, and several reproductions and prose works by Willenbecher.
Publisher Between Books, New York, 1978
20 pages
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David Antin: i never knew what time it was (2005)

In this series of intricately related texts, internationally known poet, critic, and performance artist David Antin explores the experience of time—how it’s felt, remembered, and recounted. These free-form talk pieces—sometimes called talk poems or simply talks—began as improvisations at museums, universities, and poetry centers where Antin was invited to come and think out loud. Serious [...]

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New German Critique, No. 78, Special Issue on German Media Studies (1999)

With texts by Michael Geisler and Michelle Mattson, Peter Humphreys, Knut Hickethier, Michael Geisler, Norbert Bolz, Siegfried Zielinski, Heidemarie Schumacher, Tom Huhn.
Edited by Michael Geisler and Michelle Mattson
Publisher Telos Press, New York, …

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New German Critique, No. 49, Special Issue on Alexander Kluge (1990)

With texts by Alexander Kluge, Eric Rentschler, Timothy Corrigan, Helke Sander, Heide Schluepmann, Gertrud Koch, Richard Wolin, John Rajchman, and Marc Silberman.
Editors: David Bathrick, Helen Fehervary, Miriam Hansen, Andreas Huyssen, Anson Rabinbac…

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Aaron Swartz, Precocious Programmer and Internet Activist, Dies at 26

Aaron Swartz, a wizardly programmer who as a teenager helped to develop a computer code that provided a format for delivering regularly changing Web content and in later life became an unwavering crusader to make that information free of charge, died in New York on Friday, a family member said. Mr. Swartz was 26, and [...]

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The Strange Story of New York’s Anarchist School

A fatal bomb blast in 1914 raised questions about education that still reverberate today. Berger (third from left) and Berkman (right) view the wreckage of the bombing. (Library of Congress) On July 4, 1914, anarchists from the Modern School in New York set off a bomb in a Lexington Avenue apartment building. Stories varied. Official sources [...]

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Bronx Residents Accosted by NYPD Win Landmark Court Ruling Deeming “Stop and Frisk” Tactic Illegal

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A federal judge has ruled that New York City police are not allowed to routinely stop pedestrians outside of private residential buildings in the Bronx. The stops are part of the so-called Clean Halls program, which has prompted allegations of police harassment by some residents who say they are being accosted outside of the buildings [...]

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Sometimes Things Blow Up Quickly: Is Occupy Dead?

  For some time, I have been reading essays declaring Occupy dead. They all point to the failure of the movement, since the repression of the encampments, to mount sustained, visible protest. One of Alexander Cockburn’s last columns was devoted to this theme. More recently, Tom Frank has weighed in with a similar argument. Often times these writers [...]

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Drone-proof clothing shelters from surveillance

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A New York artist develops clothes that hide the wearer from thermal imaging and black out phone signal Technological innovations tend to solidify our current surveillance society, but a new development in high-tech fashion seems like a rare example of resistance. New York artist Adam Harvey has developed a prototype line of “stealth wear,” clothing [...]

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$7,000 Damages for Sharing a “For Dummies” Book on BitTorrent

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A man and woman from New York have been ordered to pay $7,000 in damages for downloading a “For Dummies” eBook using BitTorrent. New York Federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain ordered a default judgment against the pair for infringing the copyright and trademark of major book publisher John Wiley and Sons. The recent verdicts pale in comparison to the hundreds of thousands of dollars movie pirates had to pay last year.

Source: $7,000 Damages for Sharing a “For Dummies” Book on BitTorrent

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Teju Cole: Open City: A Novel (2011)

A haunting novel about national identity, race, liberty, loss, dislocation, and surrender, Teju Cole’s Open City seethes with intelligence. It is a profound work by an important new author who has much to say about our country and our world. Along the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor doing his residency wanders aimlessly, reflecting [...]

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Occupy Sandy Church Damaged In Suspicious Fire

The Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew, a historic church in Brooklyn currently doubling as Occupy Sandy HQ, was the victim of an apparent arson attack early Sunday morning. The church at 520 Clinton Avenue, rebuilt in 1914 after a fire, stored supplies and donations for relief work across the city, including thousands of [...]

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The Bribery Aisle: How Wal-Mart Used Payoffs to Bribe Its Way Through Expansion in Mexico

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New details have emerged in the massive bribery scandal behind Wal-Mart’s expansion into Mexico, where the corporate giant now operates one in five of its stores. After exposing the bribery earlier this year, The New York Times has now visited dozens of Mexican towns and cities to document the payoffs the company used to get [...]

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Apocalypse Sex: Many Looking For End Of The World Hook Up

As we count down to the end of the world, which is scheduled to take place this Friday at 11:11 am, there are a great deal of people who want to maximize their end of the year experience by getting some Apocalypse Sex.  Craigslist has seen an uptick in ads looking for  “casual encounters” and even “end of the [...]

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