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too many people

Yet their brows touched heaven. Islam brought them to their feet in this first of the Arab awakenings. Islam created Arabism, and from the start, the power of one was the power of the other. The strength of islam is … Continue reading

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faking the real: postures in palestine

A modern aesthetic rebellion against bourgeois existence. Its an ambiguous rhetoric, an in-between, between aesthetic and political radicalism that never commits to either; like the British promising the same dunams of land to jew and arab. As protest, it is … Continue reading

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private meanings and public purpose

It is almost unfathomable to comprehend the workings and the processes of what could be considered average human imagination in all its glory of striving through a thought process littered with reason and the irrational, the real and the netherworld … Continue reading

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detournement part 3: charlie don’t surf

The last installment of Art’s series that began with the complicated but brilliant situationist school and Guy Debord… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): To be totally fair, even though Jamie Reid’s situationist appropriation (DIRECT appropriation – with intent still intact) may have … Continue reading

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THEATRE OF THE BLACK FARCE: FIFTEEN MINUTES OF FAME

”Are we who live in the present doomed never to experience autonomy, never to stand for one moment on a bit of land ruled only by freedom? Are we reduced either to nostalgia for the past or nostalgia for the … Continue reading

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