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Issue 66

Olaf Breuning, Home 2 (film still), 2007; starring Brian Kerstetter; courtesy the artist and Metro Pictures, New York

Skolar cat hidez bahind hiz nollege: Methodologies of Stupid (NSFW)

- Ariel Evans -

The titular image is one of my favorites. It's funny to me personally since I am, more or less, a scholar hiding behind knowledge.

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How to Engage the Reader

- Charles Gute -

Knowing Stupidity

- Caitlin Haskell -

Knowing something about stupidity seems to begin with understanding how difficult the term is to define.

Waxing Durr

- Justin Lieberman and Chris Sharp -

Chris Sharp holds the dubious distinction of coining the term “retard art.”

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CRIAN’ BODY

- The Joanna -

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Smart Art

- Joanna Fiduccia -

“Einstein’s brain,” begins the eponymous chapter in Roland Barthes’ Mythologies, “is a mythical object,” embodying both mechanical perfection and quasi-gnostic illumination.

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What's Sexy for Summer

- Jill Pangallo -

If I Were Steve Jobs or Jesus Christ

- Tony Matelli and Olaf Breuning -

Tony Matelli I hate email interviews, but it seems like this is the only way we can do it with the schedule. Have you ever tried to read one of those things?

Footnotes to Stupidity and Material Production

- Rene Morales and Gean Moreno -

Fernand Braudel, The Structures of Everyday Life: The Limits of the Possible (vol. 1 of Civilization and Capitalism, 15th–18th Century; Harper & Row, 1979/1981: Ch. 5, “The Spread of Technology”): To speak of progress against stupidity “is to speak of a history that is slow, mute and complicated; a memory that obstinately repeats known solutions, to avoid the difficulty and danger of imagining something else.