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Found Objects, Item No.9

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Found Objects, Item No.9

By
Sean Jacobs

“Running Cola is Africa!” (1968), a black and white plotter drawing by Masao Kohmura, Koji Fujino, Makoto Ohtake. “A computer algorithm converts a running man into a bottle of cola, which in turn is converted into the map of Africa.” The owners are the Sprengel Museum in Hannover, Germany.

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* This is a continuation of the series of posts (at least eight deep) on this site titled “Sunday Ephemera“. It will still be on Sundays. The only difference is the title has changed. It’s about old stuff. Serious.

Further Reading

No one should be surprised we exist

The documentary film, ‘Rolé—Histórias dos Rolezinhos’ by Afro-Brazilian filmmaker Vladimir Seixas uses sharp commentary to expose social, political, and cultural inequalities within Brazilian society.

Reading List: Barbara Boswell

While editing a collection of the writings of South African feminist Lauretta Ngcobo, Barbara Boswell found inspiration in texts that reflected Ngcobo’s sense that writing is an exercise of freedom.

Kenya’s stalemate

A fundamental contest between two orders is taking place in Kenya. Will its progressives seize the moment to catalyze a vision for social, economic, and political change?

An annual awakening

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More than a building

The film ‘No Place But Here’ uses VR or 360 media to immerse a viewer inside a housing occupation in Cape Town. In the process, it wants to challenge gentrification and the capitalist logic of home ownership.