{"id":339,"date":"2004-05-26T11:20:21","date_gmt":"2004-05-26T16:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=339"},"modified":"2005-02-04T09:20:33","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T07:20:33","slug":"world-at-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/26\/world-at-small\/","title":{"rendered":"world at small"},"content":{"rendered":"

Susan Sontag | Regarding the Torture of Others<\/a> – highly<\/i> recommended. Beautifully written, thought-provoking, and slightly scary. Sontag is swell.<\/p>\n

Pension fund for artists<\/a> – nice idea. “A new company called Mutual Art has created a pension fund for artists, which they fund by ‘investing’ artworks rather than cash.”<\/p>\n

Google Bomb List<\/a> – the most famous ‘Google Bombs,’ which use google’s search technology in order to hack into their top links, and return humor\/politics.<\/p>\n

Moore Film Is Held Up by Questions About Rights<\/a> – more Moore; we all need to see this film: Fahrenheit 9\/11.<\/a> It’ll really help do things like this: Bush Poll Numbers On Iraq at New Low.<\/a><\/p>\n

On the same topic:
\nAllies dispute post-handover blueprint for Iraq<\/a>
\nOil debate to drive Kerry’s talk here<\/a> (‘here,’ read as ‘in Seattle’)
\nNader Calls for Impeachment of Bush Over the War in Iraq<\/a>
\nCampaign Ads Are Under Fire for Inaccuracy<\/a>
\nEdwards’s edge on economy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Susan Sontag | Regarding the Torture of Others – highly recommended. Beautifully written, thought-provoking, and slightly scary. Sontag is swell. Pension fund for artists – nice idea. “A new company called Mutual Art has created a pension fund for artists, which they fund by ‘investing’ artworks rather than cash.” Google Bomb List – the most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","category-re-blog-tidbits","category-uncategorical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-5t","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":302,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/13\/sontag-at-wits\/","url_meta":{"origin":339,"position":0},"title":"Sontag at Wits","author":"nathaniel","date":"13 March 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Went to go see Susan Sontag speak yesterday, at WSOA - Wits School of Arts. Her extremely opinionated, often tangential, very 'new-york,' occasionally crude, or even rude, disposition was exactly what I needed for a breath of fresh air ;) Amongst interesting ideas about the photographic image's influence on contemporary\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "art"","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":341,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/23\/willem-boshoff-goodman-more\/","url_meta":{"origin":339,"position":1},"title":"Willem Boshoff @ Goodman (+ more!)","author":"nathaniel","date":"23 May 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"As suspected, Willem Boshoff's show at the Goodman Gallery is definitely worth seeing. There was also a decent turn-out at the walk-about I did with Marcus at the ArtSpace, regarding our work on the GetAway Experiment - we even followed it with a meeting about GetAway2, which brought about some\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "art"","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":487,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/02\/mail-and-guardian-online-michael-moore-fires-george-bush\/","url_meta":{"origin":339,"position":2},"title":"Mail and Guardian Online: Michael Moore fires George Bush","author":"nathaniel","date":"02 November 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"And the link of the day is: Mail and Guardian Online: Michael Moore fires George Bush","rel":"","context":"In "news and politics"","block_context":{"text":"news and politics","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/news-and-politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":243,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/16\/mr-moore-i-assume\/","url_meta":{"origin":339,"position":3},"title":"mr moore i assume","author":"nathaniel","date":"16 December 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Nathaniel's (actually, an edited version of Michael Moore's) must-reads for the day: Is Dean Toast? - Saddam's capture doesn't guarantee Bush's re-election. By William Saletan A New American Revolution Michael Moore.com: We Loved Saddam Michael Moore.com : Must Read","rel":"","context":"In "news and politics"","block_context":{"text":"news and politics","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/news-and-politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":211,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/15\/more-moore\/","url_meta":{"origin":339,"position":4},"title":"more moore","author":"nathaniel","date":"15 October 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Sometimes, I hate being out of the American loop while in Johannesburg.... Here is Michael Moore's new book, Dude, Where's My Country? An even better description is here. What a star! And here is a bit more he has to say on Wesley Clark. I wish that Clark himself was\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "news and politics"","block_context":{"text":"news and politics","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/news-and-politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":178,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/18\/maybe-clark-is-ok\/","url_meta":{"origin":339,"position":5},"title":"maybe clark is Ok","author":"nathaniel","date":"18 September 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Oooh. But then I found this. It's a letter from Michael Moore, urging Clark to run, before he announced his candidacy (about a week ago). If you don't know Mr. Moore, read this post, or his book Stupid White Men, or if you are not a big reader, see one\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "news and politics"","block_context":{"text":"news and politics","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/news-and-politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}