POWER

POWER – Vol. 8, No. 1, 2011

Permission Granted

Emma Cocker This text is a reflective meditation on the power of a form of invitational yes that can be witnessed at play within certain art practices; an interruptive and potentially dissident species of affirmation that has a specifically inceptive function, for provoking a form of thinking and being differently. This yes is an act of recognition, of being able to attest to or accept the existence of what had previously remained hidden or...

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CLEAN – Looking at War

CLEAN – Looking at War

Chris Revelle On December 21st 1989, a day after the United States invaded Panama, three networks, ABC, CBS, and CNN, all broadcasted the same split-screen images. On one side of the screen, the somber ceremony taking place at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware as the first flag-draped coffins of American casualties were returned home. On the other side, President George H. W. Bush made jokes and laughed with the media correspondents at his...

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