@malrog
Professor of Cultural and Political History UAL, Honorary Professor Bentham Project UCL. Thinks about anti-aesthetics. Read a chapter of my academic work for free: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10096746/1/Bentham-and-the-Arts.pdf
It's a poorly written article: I just think it does a disservice to the issue. Which is a shame because a lot of people have put a lot of work into repatriation over the last few decades.
An investigation by the Guardian found that UK museums hold more than 263,000 items of human remains from around the world, including whole skeletons, preserved bodies, such as Egyptian mummies, skulls, bones, skin, teeth, nails, scalps and hair.
Yeah this is what my museum brain clocked- it’s a dataset that inherently flawed because one (1) item in the set might be a box with five entire looted skeletons and another one item is a Victorian lock of hair and the dataset makes those items equal
Chapeau!
What are the cardinal points of a moral compass these days?
Thanks - I suppose I would say that, if AI images make a punctum impossible, then that is a technological change with cultural consequences, in the same way that the invention of photography was.
Now we’re really through the looking glass. Italy secured their first ever win over England at the 33rd attempt.
Marina Hyde: ‘Pressed on this data indicating that wedged halfway up Trump’s colon is not actually where the British public wants to be, Nigel Farage told reporters curtly: “I don’t follow public opinion.”’ Poor old Nigel, caught between what the public reject and what his backers want delivered.
‘In Greek and Roman mythology, the underworld could be accessed by both land and sea.’ Duncan Fyfe @ftweekend.com The era of cheap flights was yet to come.
This is not Al Capone we’re dealing with. It’s a lot worse than that.
France scored five tries, which was not a surprise. That Scotland scored seven tries against them was pretty mind boggling.
timothee chalamet has pissed the opera kids all the way off 😂
‘In Greek and Roman mythology, the underworld could be accessed by both land and sea.’ Duncan Fyfe @ftweekend.com The era of cheap flights was yet to come.
Marina Hyde: ‘Pressed on this data indicating that wedged halfway up Trump’s colon is not actually where the British public wants to be, Nigel Farage told reporters curtly: “I don’t follow public opinion.”’ Poor old Nigel, caught between what the public reject and what his backers want delivered.
🧵 This has to be the funniest Brexit moment yet.
The Brexit-loving brigade spluttering into their cornflakes as they discover The Telegraph has been sold to a German media company.
The irony is spectacular.
Much more extensive research resources on Foucault are listed here - progressivegeographies.com/resources/fo... - bibliographies, textual comparisons, audio and video links, etc.
A fascinating insight into Gwen John’s artistic process.
The balcony at the Battersea Arts Centre lit in pink.
My wife has gone to see some performances delivered from the balcony outside the Battersea Arts Centre. Vox populi, vox Dei.
A fascinating insight into Gwen John’s artistic process.
Remember when words communicated concepts which could be combined to express ideas? Those were the days. I miss language.
Indonesia suspends its participation in Board of Peace
“Indonesian FM Sugiono said the decision to suspend participation was taken because of the latest military escalation in the region, which has directly affected the foreign policy priorities of countries involved in the initiative”
‘It was Trump who said our troops hadn’t done much in Afghanistan. It was Trump who threatened to invade the territory of a sovereign NATO ally and who has repeatedly threatened to shatter the alliance.’
The balcony at the Battersea Arts Centre lit in pink.
My wife has gone to see some performances delivered from the balcony outside the Battersea Arts Centre. Vox populi, vox Dei.
NHS takes the financial stress and trauma out of health care, not perfect but blows the US system out of the water any day
A person and an LLM could both defend themselves in a war crimes tribunal. At the end of the trial, you could pass judgement on the person because they are one of a species. No such luck with the LLM.
‘Like the inaugural winner Johnson, architects love dictators; despite their left-ish rhetoric they genuflect before autocracies. Planning is easier in a dictatorship.’
Yesterday, I had an eye test. The optician said that she wanted to check out a possible hole in my retina and that I should go to the eye hospital the same day. I went, had more tests, and luckily there is no problem. None of this cost me a penny. The only admin was her letter to the hospital. #NHS
