Reading Conscientious Objections: Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology and Education by Neil Postman, 1992. The book is a series of pungent essays about how television is watched, words are used and students are taught.
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Reading La Zone du Dehors (from Cylibris editions 1999 and La Volte 2007), by French author Alain Damasio. It takes a science-fiction look at soft totalitarianism under the rhetoric of democracy.
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Today’s desktop is dominated by the roundtable harmony of Nuclear Security Summit 2010 in Washington — In a “a cruel irony of history,” President Barack Obama shared ironic and non-harmonious national security rhetoric at a roundtable: “The risk of a nuclear confrontation between nations has gone down, but the risk of nuclear attack has gone up.”
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Poking around at Buurtproeftuin, right before Martina and I got our very own vegetable plot, Amsterdam, Spring 2011
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Digging around during a public workshop at Buurtproeftuin, Amsterdam, Spring 2011
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Chillin’ with the boys from Buurtproeftuin, Amsterdam, Spring 2011
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Vegetables on the edge of Buurtproeftuin, written by Michèle Champagne for OpenCity Projects, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2012 “When it comes to highly-regulated spaces on Amsterdam’s splintering city edge, the community artist opts for something illegal: a vegetable garden. After all, gardens traditionally bespeak innocence, and what better way to defy regulations and moral prejudices than with a community-run garden in the city’s west-side neighbourhood called Bos en Lommer. The name is Dutch for “forest and shade,” and it’s no symbolic coincidence the word “forest” derives from “foreigner,” as the area is known for its Turkish, Moroccan and Surinamese residents. As official and overt anti-immigrant sentiment rises in the Netherlands, community-driven turned cross-cultural gardens seem like small but needed gestures.”
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That New Design Smell magazine at Camberwell Press’ events Into The Fold in London. Presented by Michèle Champagne by Skype, February 29, 2011 — Notice how Jason Mortlock’s fantastic Obama mug matches well with Osama poster.
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That New Design Smell magazine at Camberwell Press’ events Into The Fold in London. Presented by Michèle Champagne by Skype, February 29, 2011
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That New Design Smell magazine at Camberwell Press’ events Into The Fold in London. Presented by Michèle Champagne by Skype, February 29, 2011
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That New Design Smell magazine will teleport its consciousness by Skype and video installation at Into The Fold, curated by James Edgar at Camberwell Press, February 29, 2012, London
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That New Design Smell magazine will teleport its consciousness by Skype and video installation at Into The Fold, curated by James Edgar at Camberwell Press, February 29, 2012, London
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That New Design Smell magazine will teleport its consciousness by video at Curating Reality; New Tools for Investigative Journalism, Sandberg@Mediafonds, February 9, 2012, Amsterdam
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Sneak peak at That New Design Smell for Curating Reality, Sandberg@Mediafonds, February 9, 2012, Amsterdam
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Sneak peak at That New Design Smell for Curating Reality, Sandberg@Mediafonds, February 9, 2012, Amsterdam
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