Irish Poet

The Curator of Bushwick

He said government troops would have risked killing their own forces if they had used chemical weapons. “This contradicts elementary logic,” news reports quoted him as saying. It is “not us but our enemies who are using chemical weapons,” he said, referring to antigovernment rebels as “the terrorists.”

Tonight 8/23/13

OTHERLIST

Andrea Callard 
Dakotah Savage 
Anthony Romero 
Felix Bernstein

65 Saint Felix Street
Brooklyn, NY 11217
8pm

#4 in a series of performances taking place in Fort Greene this summer.

When not directly exploiting the homeless or calling them all ravenous drug addicts, the Valley's efforts to help out have often been clueless at best and straight-up insulting at worst. An effort to improve the homeless population's panhandling signs with better graphic design was probably well-meaning. It was also idiotic and patronizing.

It recalls that time that BBH Labs set up "Homeless Hotspots" at SXSW last year, turning homeless volunteers into unpaid personal wi-fi carriers for the visiting technorati. BBH Labs called it a "charitable experiment." Everyone else called it repulsive.

And here it is, the final straw. Tech entrepreneur Patrick McConlogue has publicly announced an "experiment" in yet another Medium post. (Medium, Sam Biddle notes, is "quickly becoming a sort of online mass grave for hasty thoughts of the moronic.") McConlogue, a partner in something called "Kickass Capital," calls his project "Finding the unjustly homeless, and teaching them to code."

CHELSEA MANNING 

CHELSEA MANNING 

METALLICA TO HEADLINE AT THE APOLLO

"She Good," Vivienne Griffin, 2012

"Bettlerhand (Beggar's Hand)," Katharina Fritsch, 2007

kitsch mimics its immediate 
predecessor with no regard 
to ethics—it aims to copy the beautiful, not the good.

"Evian Disease (still)," Helen Marten, 2012

LINK: bragging rights again

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Tonight @ 247365

Who IS Stephanie Diamond?

"Cowboy Missing Teeth...," Cady Noland, 1990