Ido Radon

@idoradon.bsky.social

Artist. Director of curatorial project, SOCIETY. Day job, Cooley Gallery at Reed College.

Having noted the term in the introduction to Horkheimer’s Eclipse of Reason, now advocating for the use of “germinal“ rather than “seminal” once and for all

Midway through Fahrenheit 451, we learn that the U. S. government has launched a series of unprovoked wars against smaller countries, just because it can, while the population is so hypnotized by amusements & devices that hardly anyone knows the wars are taking place.

“Every hour so many damn things in the sky! How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn’t someone want to talk about it! We’ve started and won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because we’re having so much fun at home we’ve forgotten the rest of the world? Is it because we’re so rich and the rest of the world’s so poor and we just don’t care if they are? I’ve heard the rumors; the world is starving, but we’re well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we’re hated so much? ... Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!”

Neighborhood phone pole art discourse. Are they just quibbling about millionaire billionaire? One wonders how they think museums get made. How museums acquire art

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