December 5, 2004
The Cost of the Iraqi War
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July 27, 2004
The Real Terror
When the US announces a policy such as pre-emptive war, it doesn’t ring out in the world as strength and resolve, it comes across rather as a threatening articulation of empirical global rule. This is the real terror that is…
July 7, 2004
Carpe Diem
Here in Washington there are numerous local parades on July 4th —very local parades, like through the streets of housing developments. These take place all over the region, and, as I suspected, they are staggered so politicians can go…
February 7, 2004
The Theatre of the Barely Socially Acceptable, Act 3
In this month’s performance from the acclaimed Theatre of the Barely Socially Acceptable—monodialogue® cell phone performances from the Washington subway—showbiz lobbies for better government. Ladies and Gentlemen, The Theatre of the Barely Socially Acceptable, Act 3: What’s up? I…
January 24, 2004
The Theatre of the Barely Socially Acceptable, Act 2
Last month, after a particularly grueling day at work I founded The Theatre of the Barely Socially Acceptable. Each month I would perform underground cell phone conversation tableaus to the apathetic minions riding DC’s subway system, the Metro. The…
July 13, 2003
Falling on One’s Sword is So Hard to Do
Is trust in our highest officials to present the truth when marching off to war important to the American people? This is the question of the week as CIA Director George J. Tenet fell on his Bush-issued sword. He is…
June 25, 2003
Crises of credibility/WMD
It is my hope that this will be a relatively short post. When consuming my daily dose of media, I’m considering an issue that troubles me greatly, and this is that the representation or just plain raw data available to…
April 7, 2003
McLuhan: Live and in Real Time
The War: Live and in real time… Anderson Cooper CNN Anchor In 1991, at the outbreak of Gulf War I, I sat riveted to my television. Live green visions of Baghdad, tracer bullets emanating from both ground and sky,…
April 7, 2003
Trail of Death
“It was three hours of organized chaos” Lt. Col. Eric C. Schwartz, 3rd Infrantry Division, US Army This is not Apocalypse Now. This ain’t Hollywood. This is George Bush’s War on Iraq brought to you live by CNN, MSNBC, and…
April 2, 2003
Huh? Or Criticality is Dead, Long Live Criticality
Iíd be happy to take credit [for the current war plan] but itís not mine. Donald Rumsfeld As Chief Critical Inspector of the Department of Art and Technology, it is time for me to intervene. Rummy made me do itóor…
March 27, 2003
A Prayer for Empire
Abe Golam Director of the Office of Political and Economic Insecurity US Department of Art & Technology A Prayer for Empire (excerpt) Our Father Utopia and Our Forever Deceased God, We praise You for Your goodness to our nation, giving…
March 17, 2003
Coping With Reality
We encourage you to participate in “We the Blog” with other artists and independent citizens, view the world out-of-context and up-to-the-minute, in order to stay in touch with the pulse of the human condition in these extraordinary times of crisis….