- Andrew MacGregor Marshall on Twitter: “An Instagram feed just published a photograph of Cambodian strongman Hun Sen wearing a rare Patek Philippe watch worth $3.2 million. His official salary is about $1,150 a month.” – (corruption outing via watch-watching)
- The Woman Who Has Styled Justin Bieber, Anita Hill, and the iPod | The New Yorker — fascinating. big power moves
- TANK MAGAZINE: Jenna Sutela interview – “Being extremophilic, its spores may have travelled to earth from another planet – meaning that we ate the alien.”
- Ancient four-legged whales once roamed land and sea
- Tongzi hominids are potentially a new human ancestor in Asia
Full photo gallery of this amusing and impressive curation at Contemporary Art Daily.
“A clay death mask crafted by the Tagar culture more than 2,000 years ago, which was first discovered among about 15 sets of cremated human remains in a burial mound in eastern Siberia in 1968, actually contained the skull of …
Crary describes Techniques of the Observer and Suspensions of Perception as ‘prehistories’ – of 20th-century spectacle in the first book and of our own ‘techno-institutional worlds’ in the second. He confronts these regimes directly in two broadsides, 24/7: Late Capitalism …