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  1. Jul 2025
    1. TOM SACHS: But seriously, with Wesselmann you’ve got this perfect pop-abstract representation of the female figure. You’ve got near perfect primary colors, almost like Matisse; there’s something really cartoon about Wesselmann. He also turned up, in a way, in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange (1971), which people are rediscovering now on DVD. There’s a lot of art in that movie—even a Wesselmann-type painting. I think that movie represents pop art better than anything.

      New Again: Tom Wesselmann - Interview Magazine by [[Tom Sachs]]

  2. Jun 2025
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    Marcus A. Turner on Instagram: "Chris Hedges presents a compelling argument that American democracy has deteriorated into a system heavily influenced by oligarchic and corporate interests. In his thought-provoking interview on *UpFront*, he boldly states, "American Democracy Doesn't Exist. It's a veneer," suggesting that while the U.S. may project an image of democratic governance, the reality is that true power resides predominantly with a select few, thereby undermining genuine representation. Hedges traces this alarming erosion of democratic principles back to the 1971 Powell Memo, a pivotal document that laid the foundation for the pervasive influence of corporate America over political processes. This shift has systematically weakened grassroots movements, particularly those advocating for labor rights and environmental protections. He points to a series of policies—such as deindustrialization, cuts to social welfare programs, and deregulation—that have been implemented across both Republican and Democratic administrations. These actions have concentrated immense wealth in the hands of a small, affluent class, effectively transforming the United States into a plutocracy where the interests of the many are overshadowed by the desires of the few. In his critique of the American political landscape, Hedges denounces both major parties for their complicity in serving corporate interests. He argues that they often use social issues as a smokescreen, diverting public attention from the deeper economic exploitation taking place. He characterizes this struggle as a "civil war within capitalism," wherein oligarchic elites and corporate heads compete for dominance, all the while leaving the working class marginalized and disenfranchised. This pervasive systemic corruption, he contends, has created a societal framework in which democracy is merely a performative act, devoid of any meaningful representation of the majority's needs and interests. #oligarchy #corporatist #investment #business #entrepreneurship #focus #trust #discipline #growth #belief #success #wealth"
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  6. Sep 2023
    1. This Be The Verse<br /> by Philip Larkin

      They fuck you up, your mum and dad. <br /> They may not mean to, but they do. <br /> They fill you with the faults they had<br /> And add some extra, just for you.

      But they were fucked up in their turn<br /> By fools in old-style hats and coats, <br /> Who half the time were soppy-stern<br /> And half at one another’s throats.

      Man hands on misery to man.<br /> It deepens like a coastal shelf.<br /> Get out as early as you can,<br /> And don’t have any kids yourself.


      Philip Larkin, "This Be the Verse" from Collected Poems. Copyright © Estate of Philip Larkin. Reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber, Ltd. Source: Collected Poems (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2001)

      Reference: Larkin, Philip. Collected Poems. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1989.


      Compare with The Kids Are Alright.

      Recited in Ted Lasso, S3 https://www.looper.com/1294687/ted-lasso-season-3-episode-11-maes-poem-sounds-familiar/#:~:text=To%20jog%20your%20memory%2C%20the,extra%2C%20just%20for%20you.%22

      See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Be_The_Verse

    1. This done, Adler can say that young crit ics of “the System” are not true revolutionaries. Real revolutionaries work within the System — since the System is the Revolution.

      How does the general idea of zeitgeist of the early 70's relate to the idea of "revolution"?

      See also: Gil Scott-Heron's "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" (1970)

    2. Adler's record of ineptness is pret ty good so far — but he surpasses it with his third Revolution. He dis likes both Marxists and Moscow, so how did the Russian Revolution be come one of the great sources or change in modern society? Because “with the Russian Revolution, we have, for the first time, the emer gence of the welfare state” — mild offspring sired from such ferocious parents. In the past, only right‐wing kooks thought F.D.R. derived his in spiration for W.P.A. from the Bol shies!

      Reference to the "welfare state" in 1971 by Gary Wills.

  7. Aug 2023
  8. Aug 2022
    1. OCLC began automated catalog card production in 1971, when the shared cataloging system first went online. Cardproduction increased to its peak in 1985, when OCLC printed 131 million. At peak production, OCLC routinelyshipped 8 tons of cards each week, or some 4,000 packages. Card production steadily decreased since then asmore and more libraries began replacing their printed cards with electronic catalogs. OCLC has printed more than1.9 billion catalog cards since 1971.
  9. May 2021
    1. Previous analyses of station observations of snow were confined to regional analyses. Here, we present an Alpine-wide analysis of snow depth from six Alpine countries – Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, and Switzerland – including altogether more than 2000 stations of which more than 800 were used for the trend assessment. Using a principal component analysis and k-means clustering, we identified five main modes of variability and five regions which match the climatic forcing zones: north and high Alpine, north-east, north-west, south-east, and south and high Alpine.
  10. Jan 2020
    1. Tough (1967, 1971), building onthe work of Houle (1961), who provided the first comprehensive descrip-tion of self-directed learning as a form of study. Tough studied and describedthe self-planned learning projects of sixty-six Canadians. The uncoveringand documenting of this type of learning—learning that is widespread, thatoccurs as part of adults’ everyday life, and that is systematic yet does notdepend on an instructor or a classroom—generated one of the major thrustsof research in the field of adult education

      widespread learning

      occurs every day as part of the adult's life

      systematic yet does not depend on a classroom or instructor.

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