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Groundswell Issue 00: Crisis Folklore

Issue 00 contributors respond to the inherent and overlapping crises that form the surface of our smoothed-out world, from the climate to vacant land and home foreclosures.

In places, we imagine the post-capitalist future of the cultures and (infra)structures we're building, while elsewhere we recount the stories we know we'll tell.

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Published November 16, 2011 Artists, Events, Works, Exhibitions, Features
Dara Greenwald

Does Corporate Culture Still Suck?

Does Corporate Culture Still Suck?

Part of the ideals of independent and DIY culture is both access to the tools/means of production and to free spaces for creativity and communication. Are these corporate ventures really giving us a gift? Or are these poison gifts—and at what cost and to whom—since we know corporations main goals are their bottom lines?

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Published November 4, 2011 Features
Kenneth Bailey

Who Shall Occupy Make Demands Of?: The Modern Case of the One-Eyed Monster

Who Shall Occupy Make Demands Of?: The Modern Case of the One-Eyed Monster

One of the biggest critiques being made of the Occupy movement is that it has no demands. If, however, we take the standpoint that Occupy functions in an interventionist mode—if we see it as an Occupy moment rather than an Occupy movement–we see that its refusal to issue demands is part of the beauty of it.

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Published November 1, 2011 Artists, Events, Works, Exhibitions, Features
Mallory Knodel

Art from the 99%

Art from the 99%

#OccupyWallStreet is an ever-changing cultural expression, cycling through memes and overlapping fights against various injustices. Throughout, cultural producers have sought ways to turn this moment into a movement.

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Published August 5, 2011 Artists, Events, Works, Exhibitions
James David Morgan

The Creative Time Summit: Living As Form

The Creative Time Summit: Living As Form

Creative Time will realize its most ambitious project yet this fall, with its third annual summit and the opening of Living As Form, a show by 25 curatorial advisers surveying more than 350 socially engaged projects.

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Published August 3, 2011 Features
James David Morgan

Jerusalem’s Museum of Tolerance to be Built Atop a Muslim Graveyard

Jerusalem's Museum of Tolerance to be Built Atop a Muslim Graveyard

The Israeli interior ministry recently authorized construction to begin on Jerusalem’s Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance despite protestations that its siting will violate the historic Ma’man Allah, or the Mamilla Cemetery.

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