Author: Pol Rosenthal
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Speaking of Racist Advertising…
Over at Artspace.com there’s a great interview with the artist Hank Willis Thomas on racism, advertising, politics, slavery, artistic production, the role of the artist in the 21st century and a great many other things. Thomas works with video, photography, interviews, iPad apps, and other formats. He collaborates and does solo work. The interview finds him in…
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Africans, Asians Unite!
Asia in My Life By Ngugi wa Thiong’o “The links between Asia and Africa and South America have always been present but in our times they have been made invisible by the fact that Europe is still the central mediator of Afro-Asian-Latino discourse. We live under what Satya Mohanty in his interview in Frontline (April…
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Death And The Word
From a project I’ve contemplated for a while now. The text is an obvious reference to naming as the first act of creation. The vegetation is to remind us that the 2nd defiance against god, for the Abrahamaists, was vegetarianism. The slug is the slow, but steady pace of the Conqueror Worm or Life as…
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3 Commas, A Comment, And A Photograph
I love this shot I took of my new friend Lila and myself; she’s of mixed heritage, too. We discussed hosting a party where everyone invited would be, as well. Obviously, we’d have to serve black russians.