Dumb Riffs » montage http://karlwhitney.com/dumbriffs Karl Whitney's blog Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:11:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://karlwhitney.com/dumbriffs/2009/06/modernism-what-is-it-good-for/ http://karlwhitney.com/dumbriffs/2009/06/modernism-what-is-it-good-for/#comments Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:06:27 +0000 Karl Whitney http://www.karlwhitney.com/dumbriffs/?p=560 My review of Owen Hatherley‘s book Militant Modernism is online at 3:AM magazine here.

]]> http://karlwhitney.com/dumbriffs/2009/06/modernism-what-is-it-good-for/feed/ 0 http://karlwhitney.com/dumbriffs/2009/01/detached-signifier-innit/ http://karlwhitney.com/dumbriffs/2009/01/detached-signifier-innit/#comments Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:31:59 +0000 Karl Whitney http://www.karlwhitney.com/dumbriffs/?p=553 Last week, a knock on my door signalled the arrival of a book I’ve been expecting for some time: the grandly titled ‘Has Man a Function in Universe?’, part of a series of books, curated by artist Gavin Wade, based on the Strategic Questions asked by Buckminster Fuller, who said:
It is my working assumption that the following 40 questions must be definitely answered before we may realistically discuss our respective philosophies and grand strategies.

My interest in the book comes from the artist Neil Chapman‘s seemingly chance encounter with an essay I wrote for my MA course about the Oulipo group. Printing out that essay on green paper, Chapman has chopped it up (it was made up of a number of free-floating paragraphs), and then integrated some of my text into the sections of the book produced by him. Rather chuffed about the whole thing, I am.

(Strategic Questions website here.)

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