Archives for May 2008
An infinitesimal destruction
if:book meditates on the nature of libraries private and public: There’s a pessimistic view of human behavior embedded in library construction and the watchfulness of the sentries who guard them: if we, the public, could get at the books, we… continue reading »
Untitled Artists: Soodad al-Naib
In 2003 I worked for some weeks in Baghdad following the invasion of Iraq, based at the UN headquarters in the Canal Hotel. As many of you probably remember, the Canal Hotel was bombed up on 19 August – shortly… continue reading »
Who are the true Frugians?
I recently became aware of a religion called Frugianism, whose followers are called Frugians. All Frugians share a core belief that the earth was created by a supreme being, named Frugi, but they are split into two groups. One group… continue reading »
Hey look, that’s me, over there!
Just as compulsory primary education created a market catered for by cheap dailies and weeklies, so the spread of secondary and latterly tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have… continue reading »