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Excavation history: "Carter, Howard (1922): Discovery (made for the Earl of Carnarvon) / Burton, Harry (1923): Photography (of objects for the Metropolitan Museum of Art) / Carter, Howard (1923-1932): Excavation (conducted for Earl of Carnarvon)"
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The world doing its best to imitate Ballard. In this case, recall the aviators and desolation in the Space Age stories.
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"I know I should start with I love you. But how can I say that without it ringing false, the sudden intimacy of salesmen and seducers? We're strangers, you and I, despite our blood. I don't even know your name" 2002, prev: the great A Scientific Romance
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Erm, I have been working for a decade and haven't worked out what my field is yet.
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Books via print-on-demand, hooked into the Amazon system. One to add to the Lulu/Qoop/etc list.
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Klein: "I was hoping [Children of Men director Cuaron] would send me a quote for the book jacket and instead he pulled together this amazing team of artists [...] to make The Shock Doctrine short film." The film is very provocative at minimum.
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"The act of drawing, the linear quality it shares with thinking or walking, and afterward the empty feeling in a space when an action has passed and the performer has left." - Berger talks about this in his Drawing book.
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A dancer (fighter?) figurine, photographed as dropped to a hard surface: poised, surfing on a wave of shattering fragments, only the cleaving of wrist and elbow indicate the violence of the situation...
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On asymmetric, "global guerilla" warfare. As national allegiances wither in eg Iraq, US can't find a nation-state foe; advocates devolving resilience from DHS to local community. But suspect that this hasn't been without its criticism either (viz tdaxp).
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Has some military infovis going on, but all too brief and in the how-X-works manner rather than true Max-Gadney-tactics-and-meaning style; haven't made any of the planes yet.
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