January 2008
27 posts
Complicated Modernisms →
There are lots of modern-isms, and all are complicated.
Unseen Sun (or, Ten Notes on Chris Marker's Sans... →
Half-formed ramblings on Chris Marker’s beautiful film.
A Scholar's Legal Peril in Poland -... →
On the perils of historical research.
“In his prescient essay ‘Cult of Distraction’ [Siegfried] Kracauer...”
– Thomas Y. Levin
“Having read, marked, and learned the words of Walter Benjamin, having permeated...”
– Juliet Koss, “Hooked on Kracauer”, Assemblage 31 (1996), p. 80
Cutting the World at Its Joints: An Interview with... →
Interesting interview with Princeton’s resident whaling expert.
Herbert Marcuse on Claes Oldenburg →
Both apparently liked really big, monumental bananas.
Franco's Monument →
On the Valley of the Fallen in Spain.
Tumblr Tryout →
Hello world … I’m trying out this Tumblr thingy … and it’s pretty cool!
English-Catalan Translator →
Of no real utility … unless you’re translating issues of A.C.
Cross-Examination of Francisco Boix, 28 January...
M. DUBOST: Were you taken to Mauthausen as a prisoner of war or as a political prisoner? BOIX: As a prisoner of war. M. DUBOST: You had fought as a volunteer in the French Army? BOIX: Either in infantry battalions or in the Foreign Legion, or in the pioneer regiments attached to the Army to which I belonged. I was in the Vosges with the 5th Army. We were taken prisoners. We retreated as far as...
Magazines and War 1936-1939: Spanish Civil War... →
This could possibly be my new favorite website.
Possible Areas Of Research
G.A.T.E.P.A.C. (Grupo de Artistas y Técnicos Españoles Para la Arquitectura Contemporánea) G.A.T.C.P.A.C. (Grup d’Arquitectes i Tècnics Catalans per al Progrés de l’Arquitectura Contemporània) A.C. (Actividad Contemporánea — G.A.T.E.P.A.C. publication including contributions from Jose Luis Sert) Aire (Repubilcan aviation magazine from the Spanish Civil War)
