Literature, Authenticity and Race byGabriel ScorgiePosted on January 28, 2019As Cathy Young observes in a recent essay, the media has not given J. D. Salinger a warm welcome into his centennial year. Two days before the celebrated author’s birthday, the Washington Post took aim at his legacy and relevance, specifically with regard to Catcher in the Rye. According to…

Veröffentlicht am 26. Januar 2019 Die Aktion T4, die erste Phase der NS-„Euthanasie“, kostete über 70.000 Menschen das Leben. In sechs zentralen Tötungsanstalten wurden ab Januar 1940 PatientInnen aus Heil- und Pflegeanstalten vergast. In Bernburg befand sich eine dieser Einrichtungen. Von November 1940 bis August 1941 starben in der Gaskammer der dortigen Heil- und Pflegeanstalt 9385…

On his ArtStation profile, the Russian artist describes himself soberly as someone who “draws from time to time”. His works, however, are not sober. They ask questions as much as they fascinate: what did this character do to deserve a murderous gift? Why is another one participating in a pig race? It is difficult not…

In the mid-1990s, Joseph Overton, a researcher at the US think tank the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, proposed the idea of a ‚window‘ of socially acceptable policies within any given domain. This came to be known as the Overton window of political possibilities. The job of think tanks, Overton proposed, was not directly to…

Ukranian architect Oleg Shuplyak designs buildings for a living, but MrOlik, his pseudonym, creates paintings that are a world of their own. With an architect’s eye for detail and structure, Shuplyak’s paintings are also highly inventive optical illusions that double as portraits of other artists and historical figures. His primary technique, which he’s been refining…

Alice Cooper meets Sweet in the nightmarish glam rock of ‘70s Dutch band, Lemming   Anyone who’s a fan of junkshop glam is going to want the fantastic new CD boxed set, All the Young Droogs: 60 Juvenile Delinquent Wrecks. The collection contains a whopping 60 tracks of obscure ‘70s glam rock from all over…

Alexey Andreev (b. 1972) is a Russian artist, lives and works in Saint-Petersburg, and he is one of my favorite illustrators ever. Just sit back, relax and enjoy. From the artist’s statement: “… the nagual Elias went to his dreaming journeys the way a wild animal prowls for food… visited, let’s say, the junkyard of…

Es dauert ein paar Jahre, von einem Jahrhundert ins nächste zu wechseln. So feiern wir nun das rund hundertjährige Jubiläum dieser besonderen Epoche, die wir «fin de siècle» nennen – und wir sollten es horizontal feiern wie es im Sanatorium gemacht wurde. Fin de siècle ist unter anderem der Glaube an den sozialen Verfall, der Ende des…

Cristian Chierici is an Architect, graduating from the Politecnico of Milan in 2005. He worked in Milan as a 3d visualiser and in 2009 founded his own visualization office CC79. In 2015 he moved to Paris to join LUXIGON and start UFO Visual investigating new approaches to architectural visualisation, computational media and photography. Currently, he…