Saturday Tweets: Culture as Subculture

Humanities as the new subversive edge–culture as counterculture. There are some old school vapors here, but they smell increasingly intoxicating: https://t.co/qlRRjBzjqP — Erik Davis (@erik_davis) May 21, 2019 These people on a remote Japanese island enjoy eating a poisonous plant https://t.co/DP31s6bKQE — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 22, 2019 Fellas. He walks up to your girl at the club. Wyd đŸ˜‚ https://t.co/BLiIROLhLB — Tarence Ray (@tarenceray)...

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Saturday Tweets: As Seen on TV

if North Americans are put in charge of the Notre Dame reconstruction pic.twitter.com/GJLYK5shFQ — yung Yonge (@brndan_) May 11, 2019 My installation at Venice Biennale: “Bleached Reef” “Toxic Reef” and blackboard describing the #Mathematics of #Hyperbolic geometry. #BiennaleArte2019 #AusInVenice pic.twitter.com/ZVYKMT5zJd — Margaret Wertheim (@margaretwerth) May 18, 2019 this list of top tier lacrosse players names is destroying my life right no...

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Saturday Tweets: Post-Earth Day

What ‘Living in Truth’ Looks Like in the Face of Climate Catastrophe via @thenation https://t.co/vO8NzENMPx — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 23, 2019 True Crimes https://t.co/GHbXcoFR67 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 23, 2019 The Spectacular Desert https://t.co/6bZTaRUG1i — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 23, 2019 Self-proclaimed LA savior #RickCaruso doesn’t know we already have a rail line that connects DTLA to Westside & runs parallel to 1...

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Saturday Linkages: Agitated

...Engraving from the Kelmscott Chaucer. The Baffler serves up some Fresh Hell Kentucky politician with a demented hatred of trains Dreaming octopus changes color I ‘stormed’ Area 51 and it was even weirder than I imagined Handsy old goon supports fossil fuels If world leaders choose to fail us, my generation will never forgive them M.I.T. Media Lab’s crackpot plant computer What if America Took Amtrak Seriously?...

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Saturday Tweets: Better Late Than Never

...red, the ruins at Luxor, ca. 1830] pic.twitter.com/vqCzONc7Bb — Irène DB (@UrbanFoxxxx) February 2, 2019 There's a $200 million abandoned village of Disney-like castles in Turkey. Take a look inside. https://t.co/uE1sznULsK via @businessinsider — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 9, 2019 Hey @ericgarcetti and @MitchOFarrell you've got some work to do . . . https://t.co/T49x6CZD59 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 8, 2019 Deadline Detro...

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