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it is good that i am at a place in my life where i feel pretty tangible and present and like a body that takes up space more often than not, because:
i have overheard or watched as they unfolded so many conversations that cited raped pregnant teenagers as hypothetical worst-case…
Blake Fall-Conroy, “Minimum Wage Machine,” 2008-2010
This machine allows anyone to work for minimum wage for as long as they like. Turning the crank on the side releases one penny every 4.97 seconds, for a total of $7.25 per hour. This corresponds to minimum wage for a person in New York.
This piece is brilliant on multiple levels, particularly as social commentary. Without a doubt, most people who started operating the machine for fun would quickly grow disheartened and stop when realizing just how little they’re earning by turning this mindless crank. A person would then conceivably realize that this is what nearly two million people in the United States do every day…at much harder jobs than turning a crank. This turns the piece into a simple, yet effective argument for raising the minimum wage.
Wonder Woman: teaching men to respect women since 1941
this is a baby tapir blog now
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“medieval lesbian no.1 in color” by [emstone] on deviantart.
Fodor parodying Wittgenstein
Marina Abramovic meets Ulay
“Marina Abramovic and Ulay started an intense love story in the 70s, performing art out of the van they lived in. When they felt the relationship had run its course, they decided to walk the Great Wall of China, each from one end, meeting for one last big hug in the middle and never seeing each other again. at her 2010 MoMa retrospective Marina performed ‘The Artist Is Present’ as part of the show, a minute of silence with each stranger who sat in front of her. Ulay arrived without her knowing it and this is what happened.”Wow, this is so tragically beautiful. Seriously, watch the video.
This moment is so epic and all I can think of is, “it’s like a movie” as though movies create epic moments instead of awkwardly try to reflect them.
Wow.
Stuart Brock on the problem of negative existentials, from “Fictionalism about Fictional Characters” (2002)
We do not want to commit ourselves to a realm of entities that have the property of being nothing merely because we can truly assert that there is nothing in the larder; we do not want to commit ourselves to an individual picked out by the description ‘the average basketball player’ merely because we can truly assert that the average basketball player is over four-foot tall. Semantic theories which treat such claims literally can, of course, be constructed. And as such, they have one advantage over the orthodox theories. Nonetheless, they are to be dismissed out of hand. Ordinary language claims such as these must be paraphrased away.
