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TRUE CONCEPTS OF RIGHTS
7 Jan
A LIBERTARIAN GOVERNMENT IS ESSENTIALLY A GOVERNMENT LIMITED BY INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. THE DEFINITION DOES NOT IMPLY MAJORITY RULE, BUT IMPLIES ALL RULE, WHETHER MAJORITY OR MINORITY, IS STRICTLY LIMITED TO THE FIELD OF PREVENTING TRANSGRESSIONS ON THE RIGHTS OF ANY INDIVIDUALS. THIS IS IN OPPOSITION TO “AUTHORITARIAN” WHICH IMPLIES THAT THE GOVERNMENT, WHETHER IT REPRESENTS A MAJORITY OR NOT, IS SUPREME AND THUS MUST BE OBEYED BY ALL REGARDLESS. THE WORD “DEMOCRACY” IS USELESS BECAUSE ABUSED.
THE WHITE MAN’S BURDEN
6 Jan
REMEMBER THE UNITED COLORS OF BENETTON AD CAMPAIGNS? CULTURAL DIVERSITY IS USED TO SELL PRODUCTS. DIVERSITY IS NOT STANDARD BECAUSE IT IS THE CORRECT WAY TO APPROACH REALITY. THE CULTURAL STATUS QUO REMAIN FIRMLY INTACT IN 1917 OR 2017.INSTITUTIONAL RACISM IS NOTHING NEW ON THIS BLOG, WE TALK ABOUT IT EXTENSIVELY, BECAUSE IT IS USUALLY THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM NOBODY IS WILLING TO ACKNOWLEDGE. THE ART WORLD IS A FRIGHTENINGLY WORSE DEPARTURE FROM THE PUBLIC SECTOR.
THE TRAPPINGS OF ART EDUCATION START THE PROCESS EARLY, THE WHITE ARE ULTIMATE ARBITERS OF CULTURE & SOPHISTICATION. THE HIGHER UP THE ACADEMIC LADDER, THE MORE HOMOGENIZED THE POPULATION BECOMES. WHEN THE ART LANDSCAPE IS ALREADY THIS HEGEMONIC IMAGINE HOW IT WILL LOOK IN JUST FIVE YEARS TIME?
SOCIALCONTINUITYLESSON
5 Jan
EUROPEAN CONTINUITY MADE IT NECESSARY TO ADAPT THE WHOLE PROPOSITION TO THE EASTERN HEMISPHERE TRADITION OF “THE STATE WITH ILLIMITABLE POWER” –AND THEREBY CONVERTED EVEN AMERICAN LIBERTARIAN IDEALS INTO AUTHORITARIAN FORMS; RESPECT FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS & LIMITATION OF GOVERNMENTAL POWERS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THAT, BECAME REDUCED TO A FORMULA OF “MAJORITY RULE” WHICH DEPRIVES MINORITIES OF ALL PROTECTION, A FORM WHICH AMERICA HAS ALWAYS REJECTED BECAUSE IT FLIES IN THE VERY FACE OF AMERICAN CONTINUITIES.
IN ORDER TO EFFECT ANY SWEEPING CHANGE IN SOCIETY, IT IS ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL TO PRODUCE A DISCONTINUITY — THAT IS, A BREAK IN CONTINUITY. THE THEORY OF SOCIAL CONTINUITY SHOWS THAT. WITHOUT THIS, THE OLD CONTINUITIES WILL NECESSARILY TEND TO PULL THINGS BACK TO THE PAST. SIDIS SOCIAL CONTINUITY
NATIVE AMERICA HISTORY
4 Jan
THE TRIBES AND THE STATES W.J. SIDIS
CHAPTER I RED RACE PRE-HISTORY
CHAPTER II THE RED MAN IN AMERICA
CHAPTER III PRE-FEDERATE EVENTS
CHAPTER IV THE IROQUOIS FEDERATION
CHAPTER V THE GREAT WHITE INVASION
CHAPTER VI THE PENACOOK FEDERATION
CHAPTER VII PISCATAQUA AND MASADCHU
CHAPTER VIII THE PENACOOK PEACE
CHAPTER IX THE LAST OF THE PEQUOTS
CHAPTER X THE NEW ENGLAND CONFEDERATION
CHAPTER XI UNDER RESTORED MONARCHY
CHAPTER XIII QUAKER SETTLEMENT
CHAPTER XVI INTERCOLONIAL STRUGGLES
CHAPTER XVII THE GREAT OHIO WAR
CHAPTER XVIII AFTERMATH OF THE GREAT OHIO WAR
CHAPTER XX THE PERIOD OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
CHAPTER XXI THE SIEGE OF BOSTON
CHAPTER XXII DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
CHAPTER XXIII THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE
CHAPTER XXIV THE FIRST REPUBLIC
CHAPTER XXV THE ECONOMIC RECONSTRUCTION
CHAPTER XXVI THE SHAYS REBELLION
CHAPTER XXVII THE CINCINNATI CONSPIRACY
CHAPTER XXVIII WASHINGTON’S ADMINISTRATION
CHAPTER XXIX THE DOWNFALL OF FEDERALISM
CHAPTER XXX UNDER THE DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICANS
THE CENTER OF TH WORLD
3 Jan
LOOKING AT JIMMIE DURHAM IT IS HARD NOT TO FIND A KINDRED SPIRIT. THAT A MILLENNIAL CHEROKEE COULD BE EXPERIENCING A PARALLEL EXISTENCE WITH AN ARTIST TURNING 77 IS ASTONISHING.
FROM THEMES TO PROCESSES, THE SIMILARITIES ARE UNCANNY, CREATING OEUVRES THAT EVOKE SPIRITS SEPARATED YET BOUND THROUGH TIME. THE FORM OF THE TOTEM IN 1989 RETURNING IN 2012, THE USE OF ASSEMBLAGE BINDING INVISIBLE QUANTUM STINGS.
MOVING TO EUROPE 20 YEARS AGO, DURHAM HAS LARGELY CHOSEN NOT TO EXHIBIT IN THE USA. HIS WORK IS CRUCIALLY CONNECTED TO IMPORTANT ACTIVITIES, MOVEMENTS, & GENRES OF AMERICAN ARTISTIC PRODUCTION: THE SCULPTURAL ASSEMBLAGE OF FOUND OBJECTS, APPROPRIATION OF TEXT AND IMAGE, INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE, POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION, PERFORMANCE & TO THE COLONIAL HISTORY AND THE POWER STRUGGLES OF THE COUNTRY.
JIMMIE DURHAMS’ TRAVELING RETROSPECTIVE PRESENTS A MIXED BLESSING. THE PROLIFIC CHEROKEE ARTIST RECEIVING NATIONAL RECOGNITION ONLY HIGHLIGHTS THE THOUSANDS OF THOUSANDS OF INDIGENOUS ARTISTS THAT WILL NEVER RECEIVE A FRACTION OF INTEREST OR EXPOSURE. THE UNSPOKEN TRAVESTY IN AMERICAN “CONTEMPORARY ART“ THERE ARE NO SEATS FOR NATIVE ARTISTS.
LIVING & WORKING IN THE 305, WE ARE ALL TO FAMILIAR WITH THE INVISIBLE GRIP OF THE CONQUISTADOR, ONE OF TWO DOMINATOR TRIBES IN SOUTH FLORIDA. IF YOU AREN’T TRIBAL, BEST OF LUCK GETTING AHEAD. ONE OF MANY REASONS WE STARTED THIS BLOG. VISIBILITY IS A DEFIANT FORM OF ACTIVISM, VIEWABLE ANYWHERE, AT ANY TIME, IN ANY COUNTRY, REPRESENTATION NOT CONTROLLED BY INSTITUTIONAL HIERARCHIES OR THE UNDERTOWS OF NEPOTISM.
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