Research

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A new book edited by two of my former professors at Parsons the New School for Design.

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I have noticed a theme of blankness, silence and whiteness appearing in the latest issue of German culture magazine O32c, the most recent issue of the bi-annual journal F.R. David, and the June issue of US Vogue. I wonder why these three publications that take the current cultural temperature of the world focused their efforts [...]

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Communist Guide to New York City
by Yevgeniy Fiks
Communist Guide to New York City is a collection of 76 photographs of buildings, public places, and sites in New York City, that are connected to the history of the Communist Party USA, including photos of buildings which housed at different times the headquarters of the CPUSA, residences [...]

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On April 10 2009, when we stopped capitalizing our time and learned to live, or when we wasted our time walking a few blocks in the opposite direction to get to school, there was an air of apathy from the students at Parsons. While an army of police tossed students into paddy wagons and the [...]

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“things magazine was originally founded in 1994 by a group of writers and historians based at the Victoria & Albert Museum/Royal College of Art in the belief that objects can open up new ways of understanding the world.
Now an independent magazine, things has built a reputation as a home for new writing – essays, reviews, [...]

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download pdf—–>thisstandsasasketchforthefuture
“What follows is a work-in-progress — the product of a one-year project as a Research Affiliate at Massachussetts Institute of Technology Center for Advanced Visual Studies tracing the legacy of graphic designer Muriel Cooper. This booklet is necessarily incomplete and perhaps better for it. It is a first draft offered in public before it [...]

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