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http://www.poszu.com/visual-documentation-of-UFOs.html

Visual Documentation of UFOs: A New Question of Authenticity. Written in October, 2012 by Rosalynn Rothstein. Drawing of a UFO encounter from Randall V. Mills Archives of Northwest Folklore. Physics on the Fringe. Check out the UFO images linked from Photocat, these especially are worth looking at. If observation of natural phenomena informed by scientific processes of observation is influencing how individuals are ordering the world, how can we understand the phenomena of UFO documentation? There is a c...

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http://www.poszu.com/new-normalism.html

Memo on New Normalism. Written in January, 2015. Memo to the indirectorate:. There is a sort of constancy, an ever-present scum floating on the pond, that this memo seeks to draw attention towards. We'll call it "New Normalism.". Site design by Adam Rothstein - CC license NC-BY-SA.

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http://www.poszu.com/all-real-atemporal-shit.html

All Real Atemporal Shit. No Authenticity. Written in May, 2011. A long article has been making the rounds. The author of the above has a problem with a particular sort of digital photo. It is a sort of digital photo that somehow violates the glorious rules of reality, by mimicking something from a time that it is not. Time has come unstuck, and not in a good way. A bad, fake, inauthentic, faux-vintage way. Part of the trouble with a concept like atemporality, is that it. In short terms: atemporality is t...

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http://www.poszu.com/the-story-of-those-that-would-stay.html

The Story of Those that would Stay. Written in March, 2011. We've told the story before, and we'll tell it again. More than a quarter of a million people have marched through central London to deliver a powerful message about the government's cuts in public spending. The generally good-natured mood was soured by violent and destructive attacks on symbols of wealth including the Ritz, banks and a luxury car dealer; and an occupation of the upmarket food store Fortnum and Mason. That is, until we realize h...

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Written in May 2015. Have you seen Grimes' video for "Genesis"? It came out in 2012. If you have seen it, try to remember the first time you watched it. What did you think? Women in costumes, riding in an SUV, carrying archaic weapons to the desert. It is an odd pairing for the airy, space sounds of Grimes, who is an artist whose present is physically slight, minimal, if powerful. It is this lithe figure that swings a mace in the video, from the top of the SUV. October 30, 2014. September 23, 2014.

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http://www.poszu.com/occupying-strategic-and-tactical-media-space.html

Occupying Strategic and Tactical Media Space. This paper was presented by Rosalynn and Adam Rothstein for MediaCities 4, as part of the panel "Uncommon Occupations," in May, 2013. Image 1: The police quickly adapted to the use of photo and video to document protests, and used their most confrontational tactics after dark, when digital video and photo is more difficult. Gmail, other webmail. Wordpress, other web hosting and blog SaaS. SMS relays (Cel.ly). PayPal and We Pay. Image 3: Officers were very awa...

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http://www.poszu.com/the-futurist-manifesto.html

Written in June, 2014. Click here to view alongside original 1909 text by F.T. Marinetti. We have been up all night, my friends and I, beneath camera globes whose infrared LEDs are bright as our souls, because like them we were illuminated by the internal glow of databased hearts. And trampling underfoot our native sloth on opulent reclaimed first-growth wooden floors, we have been discussing right up to the limits of logic and scrawling the internet with demented writing. Then the silence increased....

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http://www.poszu.com/new-years-note.html

A New Year Note. Written in January, 2015. I have a fortnightly newsletter. In which I boringly discuss what I've just worked on, what I'm currently working on, and what I want to work on in the future. Given that this is the year end slow period for publishing, I thought I would take a couple weeks to reflect on things I had done the past year. And also things I haven't done in the past year. My book about drones. Acting in unfamiliar ways. How much would you pay per chapter? New Non-Fiction Book Project.

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http://www.poszu.com/dark-theory.html

Written in February, 2013. In it is this darkness that Dark Theory finds its own mythos. This new ethic disassembles the old gods- the shadowy villains, the darker races, the black hearts, and the dearth of healing lights. It takes this lack of colorful zoning, and in the indistinctness and undifferentiated murk, it constructs its own way of doing things, proven by the rapidly educating evolution of dangerous back streets. From the group Wolves in the Throne Room: "I think that black metal is an artistic...

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http://www.poszu.com/vaccinations-ridicule-and-racism.html

Vaccinations, Ridicule, and Racism. Written in February, 2015. But I don't write this memo to argue the obvious about getting vaccinated. I'm curious about the idea of what we do about it. It's very easy to ridicule an idea that is ridiculous, and smart people are doing so to the anti-vaccine position with vigor. And at first, the action seems reasonable. After all, if an idea is ridiculous, why should it not be presented as such? Certain self-styled libertarian candidates are already toying with this au...