Kazys's blog at the Evil Studio 2009: Archive

Don't Be Evil →

Google’s offices. Hmm… time for a studio on the topic?

Dec 12th

Dec 2nd

kazys: It’s been over a year since Obama was elected and while its an immense relief to be rid of the awful regime that laid waste to this country for eight years, the disappointment about the current administration is starting to set in. I’ve been cautious from day one since I remember just how stupid the Clinton administration really was and observed that during the election Obama never...

Dec 2nd

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for Addi. National Review on Schools →

Dec 2nd

Build an Indexhibit Site, Free

networkculturecourse: kazys: Since many of the students in my network culture class are building Web sites using indexhibit, I thought I’d figure out how to create such a site and post some rudimentary instructions on how to do it. Here’s what I came up with. It took me 20 minutes to set up a site (kazys.99k.org) in indexhibit as follows. Download indexhibit Read the readme Sign up for free...

Dec 2nd

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Nov 26th

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Gentlemen of Bacongo →

For Emily. Serendipity strikes as one of the blogs I read every day posted a piece on the African dandies.

Nov 23rd

But Today We Collect Ads

For Eric and Michael, In their famous passage, “Gropius wrote a book on grain silos, Le Corbusier one on aeroplanes, and Charlotte Perriand brought a new object to the office every morning; but today we collect ads,” Alison and Peter Smithson draw the allusion to Gropius, Corbusier, and Perriand to suggest that research into Pop culture is only a stimulus for architectural design. For the...

Nov 23rd

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Lecture @ Columbia Planning 11/24

kazys: I am lecturing tomorrow on Complexity and Contradiction in Infrastructure in the Lectures in Planning Series of the Program in Urban Planning at Columbia University, starting at 1pm, 114 Avery Hall.

Nov 23rd

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Would this work for future studios?

It seems like the Tumblr experiment has worked pretty well, but I have some issues with it. the lack of comments the difficult of aggregating all your posts together so that critics could see everyone’s Tumblr logs on one page the off-site presence (it’d be great to have it at the networkarchitecturelab.org site or at the gsapp site…the latter is less likely) Would you mind taking...

Nov 15th

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“a medium-sized dog would consume 90 grams of meat and 156 grams of cereals daily...”

– Time to eat the dog? Are pets evil? How green is your pet? - environment - 23 October 2009 - New Scientist

Nov 15th

Rupert Murdoch to remove News Corp's content from... →

for Michael.

Nov 13th

“This pair of pigs tattooed with Louis Vuitton logos will be on exhibition Monday...”

– For Emily. Around Shanghai: Fake doctors, scat collectors and tattooed Louis Vuitton pigs - Shanghaiist

Nov 11th

“In economics, the Jevons Paradox (sometimes called the Jevons effect) is the...”

– For Caren: Jevons paradox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nov 11th

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Jordan Crandall's Operational Media →

For Eric. See also his work at http://jordancrandall.com/main/

Nov 11th

Nov 7th

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“Stockholm syndrome is a psychological response sometimes seen in abducted...”

– Stockholm syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Oct 30th

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Oct 30th

War Against the Center

For Eric. War Against the Center.

Oct 30th

The Gift of the Open Hand

For everyone, especially Rajiv and Emily. The Gift of the Open Hand: Le Corbusier Reading Georges Bataille’s “La Part Maudite” by Nadir Lahiji

Oct 30th

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Oct 30th

Nietzsche's Corpse

For Addi: Nietzsche’s Corps/e by Geoff Waite. Google books link.

Oct 30th

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And if I don’t ever say what must be done, it isn’t because I believe that there’s nothing to be done; on the contrary, it is because I think that there are a thousand things to do, to invent, to forge, on the part of those who, recognizing the relations of power in which they’re implicated, have decided to resist or escape them. From this point of view all of my...

Oct 22nd

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There's No Way You Could Frame It.

For Rajiv… This is a founding document for conceptual art, or for Thunder Road (note well: New Jersey is the American home of conceptual art). Everyone could benefit from it. I can just about recite it. Tony Smith’s account of a nightly ride on the unfinished New Jersey Turnpike … “When I was teaching at Cooper Union in the first year or two of the ’50s, someone told me how I...

Oct 22nd

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Oct 22nd

Citigroup's Plutonomy Report →

Or, how to profit from global inequality.

Oct 19th

Bum Fights →

Oct 17th

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I Love To See

You posting Tumblr links for each other!

Oct 16th

Aristotle Onassis and his Penises →

Oct 16th

Whale Penis? →

Oct 16th

Leon Krier on Albert Speer →

This is a key text on architecture and evil. Note: Leon Krier was very influential on Michael Graves and is beloved by Prince Charles.

Oct 16th

D-Crit: Network Culture: A Changing Context for...

kazys: I am giving an overview of my Network Culture book project at the D-Crit program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City at 6 tonight. See their site for more. Event Information When: 13 Oct 2009, 6:00–8:00 p.m. Where: Design Criticism MFA Department, 136 West 21st Street, New York, 2nd floor Price: Free and open to the public

Oct 13th

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A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian... →

This miserably formatted version of this fascinating account of the Russian Revolution will only whet the appetite of anyone interested in this crucial moment. Please refer to the original, either in the library or in your local bookstore for a readable version.

Oct 12th

A Marxist Defense of Shopping →

For Emily, especially.

Oct 11th

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Cognitive Dissonance →

We understand that working for an evil client must be frustrating. If it’s not, that’s only temporary. Repressing such frustration will only cause it to rise to the surface more dramatically later. One of the reasons we are teaching this studio is that architects have not developed a theoretical toolbox for dealing with evil. It’s the task of the studio members to develop such a...

Oct 11th

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Richard Burton's Little Prince →

Of course Robert would agree that The Little Prince by Antoine Saint-Exupery is amazing and also crucial for anyone studying evil. See more here (and investigate the rest of the blog for Where the Wild Things Are)… http://weloveyouso.com/2009/10/the-little-prince-richard-burton-moog/

Oct 4th