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Norman Steel and Benjamin Miller think New York’s garbage should be processed in waste-to-energy plants which produce energy, and are less polluting than landfills.
With yet another journalist attacked and killed in Honduras this past week, the country has become one of the most dangerous for reporters in 2010. As previously mentioned on this […]
With exactly 40 Earth Days in its wake, the US has come a long way on conservation awareness. But when we think about Earth and all that ails her, we’re […]
This FIFA World Cup ad looks like a psychedelic collaboration between Adbusters and James Nachtwey. Way to bum out the entire species, FIFA. Photo credit: flickr user Dr. Motte, licensed […]
"For centuries in the past we’ve been in the center of the world.In fact, you know, 'China' in Chinese means 'the middle kingdom,' that we are in the middle of […]
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The way copyright law is written doesn't reflect the "rip, mix, burn kind of scenario" that is the modern age.
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"Music is writing. Writing is art. Art is music. Simple," says the DJ.
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Standardized technology "deadens a lot of amazing stuff," but it also allows people to customize their sensory landscape in new ways.
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"My work is just trying to make sense of the disorienting and overloaded world that we inhabit," says the DJ.
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Miller remixed D.W. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation" as a critique on racial politics. His Antarctica project touches on many of the same ideas, differently.
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"Go to the most remote place that you can imagine, set up a studio and see what music comes out of it."
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DJing is like being a conductor, and a composer of collage—you get to "mess around with people’s memories of songs."
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Paul Miller is more of a nuts and bolts kind of guy, while DJ Spooky can be wilder.
Here then is the hidden truth that none of the established political parties will tell the electorate in this, the penultimate week in what is fast proving to be one […]
When literary critics like Lionel Trilling wrote in the 1950s and '60s, they wrote for "a readership of people who believed that your taste in literature or your taste in […]
I used to have a joke I told all the time, back when the mortgage business was booming, about the “loan officer’s tool kit.” If I saw someone standing in […]
"Maybe it’s time to admit that we may never find a way to reconcile consumers who want free entertainment with creators who want to get paid," writes Megan McArdle.
Neil Simon "does not think against society; he thinks with it, observing and recording the sorrows and deliriums of the middle class, like a sort of swami of tsuris," writes John Lahr.
Stanley Fish is not surprised that the Supreme Court struck down a statute criminalizing the production and sale of "crush videos" depicting animal cruelty for sexual fetishists.