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I’ve a new story in Perfect Eight magazine, Issue #4, on page 47.

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Andreas Gefeller, Ohne Titel (Kunstakademie, R 220)

“Thus the poor, the unemployed, the homeless and wage less represent first of all a contradictory situation: they are excluded from a general social condition that conceives of value as built in community. This is the reason for the dangerousness of the poor, the substance of his ‘being foe’ to the actual form of capitalist command. ”

— Antonio Negri, The poor: a threatening and indispensable enemy.

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May 16

David Wojnarowicz, Untitled (Falling Buffalo)

“What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself. ”

— Roland Barthes

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Apr 29

The Stranger by Suryowibowo

» Beyonce Sends Her Look-a-like For Personal Art Museum Tour

VIENNA (AFP) – US pop star Beyonce has angered a high-brow art museum in Vienna by sending a look-a-like to her own special personal tour of the museum, while she went shopping, according to newspaper reports here Wednesday.
Tabloid dailies Oesterreich and Heute said the R&B diva had been due to visit the Albertina, one of the Austrian capital’s most famous museums which attracts around one million visitors each year.
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But Beyonce, who gave a concert in Vienna on Tuesday, decided to skive off and do some shopping instead, sending a look-a-like to the museum and be photographed with Albertina director, Klaus Albrecht Schroeder, according to the reports.
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“We were a little doubtful yesterday, but weren’t really sure. It could have been her,” Dahlitz said, adding that fans were apparently duped, too.

UPDATE: Sadly, a hoax.

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Apr 21

John Isaacs, Matrix of Amnesia, 1998

“I experience less of the good I expected from writing these Memoirs; the pleasure of explaining myself at leisure in detail is enfeebled. It is time to make an end; it is a waste of time to be exasperated with Society, to exhort myself to struggle against the thought of its blade — I am its prisoner. The secret voice, as I know it, simplifies my own impressions, my motives and my anger for me. Simplified, little remains — it is the same for everyone, it is true, but it is rarely anyone finds himself in a position as I do to appreciate where that little can lead one. ”

— “Lacenaire”, The Memoirs of Lacenaire, translated by Philip John Stead.

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» China Seeks To Get Rid of Rare Names

For Ma Cheng and millions of others, Chinese parents’ desire to give their children a spark of individuality is colliding head-on with the Chinese bureaucracy’s desire for order. Seeking to modernize its vast database on China’s 1.3 billion citizens, the government’s Public Security Bureau has been replacing the handwritten identity card that every Chinese must carry with a computer-readable one, complete with color photos and embedded microchips. The new cards are harder to forge and can be scanned at places like airports where security is a priority.
The bureau’s computers, however, are programmed to read only 32,252 of the roughly 55,000 Chinese characters, according to a 2006 government report. The result is that Miss Ma and at least some of the 60 million other Chinese with obscure characters in their names cannot get new cards — unless they change their names to something more common.

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