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From A few remarks on the method of Jacques Rancière by Jacques Rancière. A method means a path: not the path that a thinker follows but the path that he/she constructs, that you have to …

Queens, New York. Aimé Leon Dore... does not have a store there. Their flagship store is located on Mulberry Street, in Manhattan. But it is, meaningfully, a Queens-based brand. The brand reflects its founder and …

PHOENIX MARVEL LEGENDS (HASBRO) You know, I feel every few years, I have to review a Marvel Legends Phoenix. Just, like, some sort of cycle. They keep remaking her, and I keep buying her, and …

For this year's bike tour, Meg and I rode our ATBs from Littleton, New Hampshire, in a loop around Vermont, and back to New Hampshire. Along the way, we checked out some new spots, and …

I have a discovery to report. Many of the world’s great treasures are known to have been lost over the centuries. I believe I may have found one of them. What follows is the evidence …

Hello you fine Internet folks, for today we have a video and an article for y’all.Unlike our prior Granite Rapids coverage where we just had a video, we have had hands-on with Turin, specifically the …

"Get or create" is a very common operation for syncing data in the database, but implementing it correctly may be trickier than you may expect. If you ever had to implement it in a real …

Lower Inver morning view upstream from the Scrambles Over the years I have been privileged to fish in many beautiful places, but nowhere else moved me as much as these two small Highland rivers. As …

To celebrate the reissue of Selected Ambient Works Volume II, there will be a special listening event at the Tate Modern in central London on the 25th of October. This will be free to attend, …

There's very little to innovate in (motor) vehicle parking management and so it's nice to be able to report on something which is both simple and clever at the same time.I found myself with a …

Everything seems to speed up once the autumn equinox passes; the frequency of low pressure systems rolling through, the wind speed, the flush of colour to the trees and the disappearance of summer migrants.The 'local' …

I don't love how this painting turned out, but I enjoyed every moment of creating it. (I did the best I could on the photography with a tripod, my phone, and my office lights.) I …

Just in time for Thanksgiving1, Cabel Sasser gave a talk at the 2024 XOXO Festival about the importance of appreciation for art and craftsmanship in this 20 minute talk. I’d say more, but trust me …

Medieval selfies and the earliest selfie-stickSelfies are by no means an exclusively modern phenomenon. During the Middle Ages artists would portray themselves, even realistically. The person seen here made two selfies of himself and even …

This map, created shortly after the end of World War I, shows the different connections in the province of Utrecht The legend identifies the different types of lines on the map: railroads tramways paved roads …