Autumn Hays
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Nick Hanauer
Nick Hanauer, self-described “super-rich” entrepreneur, gave a pretty compelling TED Talk about how the middle class—not the super-rich—are the real job creators. But TED, which has released over 100 different political videos in the past, thought this one was too partisan and chose not to release it. We didn’t notice any flaming partisanship in it. We normally love TED, and were surprised they didn’t think this talk was TEDworthy.
Under pressure from the Internets, TED finally relented and released the video. Watch it and decide for yourself if it’s really all that controversial to say that the “super-rich are not job creators.”
(Source: youtube.com)
"Because the prime purpose of language is discourse, the conceptual framework that has developed under its influence is known as “discursive reason.” Usually, when one speaks of “reason” at all, one tacitly assumes its discursive pattern. But in a broader sense any appreciation of form, any awareness of patterns in experience is “reason”; and discourse with all its refinements (e.g. mathematical symbolism, which is an extension of language) is only one possible pattern."
(Source: thepursuitaesthetic)
the RAPID PULSE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL aims to represent a range of styles and forms in order to provoke thought and stimulate discourse surrounding performance art.

Taken with instagram
Taken with Instagram at International Museum Of Surgical Science
Taken with instagram
Taken with instagram
Aerial is an awesome new site-specific installation created by Baptiste Debombourg (previously) at an old Benedictine monastery called Brauweiler Abbey near Cologne, Germany. Debombourg used numerous sheets of shattered laminate glass to mimic a frothy flood of water rushing into a room. Remarkably beautiful work. We wish we could view it in person. See more of Aerial by clicking on the thumbnails here.[via Colossal]