Lara Baladi introduces us to her project “Archiving a Revolution”, which documents the story of the Tahrir Squre protests. Developing over several years, Baladi has transformed her visual archive into a several projects, including an art installation. Baladi introduces her project, “Archiving a Revolution,” as crossing disciplinary boundaries. It comes […]
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Lebanon has been suffering a garbage crisis for the past nine months, and people are living within piles of garbage – literally – and the ruling elite does not seem that enthusiastic to resolve the situation. The problem reflects the lack of infrastructure in the country and the crippling of […]
Photo by Patsy Beaudoin. From the Boston Public Library’s description of the talk: The Leventhal Map Center and the Boston Map Society welcome Joni Seager, Professor and Chair at Bentley University to talk about her book “State of Women in the World Atlas.” In an age of data overload, […]
How do we find the hegemonic viewpoint surrounding mass surveillance in America? President Obama introduces the issue in a speech: “At the dawn of our Republic, a small, secret surveillance committee borne out of the “The Sons of Liberty” was established in Boston. And the group’s members included Paul Revere.” […]
The present presidential election is a spectacle, in the truest sense of the word, like few before. Just as FDR’s weekly radio addresses and JFK’s success in the first televised presidential debate watermark the adoption and cooption of a particular communication medium for political ends, so the 2016 campaign may […]