Ian Kahn

and creates a new form, the ensuing violation of the medium employed is the most perfect assurance of the author's convictions. A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.” [Man Ray, 1934]

riences. For, whether a painter, emphasizing the importance of the idea he wishes to convey introduces bits of ready-made chromos alongside his handiwork, or whether another, working directly with light and chemistry, so deforms the subject as almost to hide the identity of the original,

precludes all psycho-analytical classification or assimilation into an arbitrary decorative system. Questions of merit and of execution can always be taken care of by those who hold themselves aloof from even the frontiers of such expe-

like the undisturbed ashes of an object consumed by flames, the recognition of this object so little representative and so fragile, and its simple identification on the part of the spectator with a similar personal experience,

No plastic expression can ever be more than a residue of an experience. The recognition of an image that has tragically survived an experience, recalling the event more or less clearly,

Seized in moments of visual detachment during periods of emotional contact, these images are oxidized residues, fixed by light and chemical elements, of living organisms.

Read me against the AI art debate:
“It is in the spirit of an experience and not of experiment that the following autobiographical images are presented.

DNA Doe Project Watch Party Fundraiser By DNA Doe Project

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Fuq fascism.

Love that first sale in TX is this.

Angus. #Maine

That boi, by George.

2025: Rise Up-Resist-Reject by IAN J KAHN on Apple Music Playlist · 199 Songs

Thanks to all who have grown this playlist. Seems like a good time to post the newest version.
No kings.

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YouTube video by shpadoinkle day Crass - Bloody Revolutions (Lyrics)

Thinking about tomorrow.

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Some context folks may need to understand this decision:

A promise of funding from NIH/NSF can now be taken away at any time. This can put unis and lead researchers in a tight spot financially and reptuationally. Grant apps make promises that only funding can keep. 🧵🧪

📚#Skybrarians

Word of the Day: gazumping
"The vendors, as honourable people, are opposed to the practice of gazumping [accepting an offer from another party in excess of the agreed amount]. In light of our agreement, we would expect that you, being equally honourable people, also cease viewing other properties.

This.

I loathe the short sighted, callous, and mean spirited nature of far too many in this country.
You judge a person…and a country…not by how they treat their wealthy privileged class, but how they treat their most vulnerable and struggling.
This country deserves to burn.

What a place we find ourselves.

Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, citing moral opposition The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.

The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.

It is really quite amazing how the MAGA Right’s issues with the new pope all revolve around his genuine Christian values…speaks volumes re the bullshit xtian lip service they spew.

Willful ignorance and malevolent stupidity.

How about some basic rules?
--All law enforcement officers should wear identification
--No law enforcement officers should be allowed masks
--All law enforcement officers should wear and use body cams
...oh and...
--All law enforcement officers should understand, respect & follow the law

Rumeysa Ozturk was hurled into a vile prison for writing, and I quote, “We, as graduate students, affirm the equal dignity and humanity of all people.”

Meanwhile, the former defence minister of Israel is out here condemning Israel’s “war crimes” and “ethnic cleansing.”

"Impeach Trump" is the moderate position

The radical position is to try the entire Trump family and all major associates under the Treason Act

Ireland offered up one spectacular day after another…as if tempting us to move permanently.

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and rebellion.

~ Oscar Wilde