Showing posts with label Terror. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Terror. Show all posts

Monday, August 2, 2010

War Rugs from Afghanistan

War rugs from Afghanistan exhibit at the Toronto textile museum.

Repetitive, pixelated, simplified design elements, the iconic medallions of traditional textile-weaving--and strangely reminiscent of low resolution video games--eerily emboss these rugs, reflecting on the terrors of modern global policing.

Friday, July 30, 2010

Jean Baudrillard's The Spirit of Terrorism

Insofar as I know, still the most reaching analysis of the Terror against Terror climate of modern global politics.

Among the last things he wrote before his death, Jean Baudrillard's essay: The Spirit of Terrorism.

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