http://prop-press.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ war and culture wars.... en Vox Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:14:55 -0600 Copyright 2009 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://prop-press.vox.com/library/post/from-the-archives-of-our-political-education.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(dan s wang) http://prop-press.vox.com/library/post/from-the-archives-of-our-political-education.html?_c=feed-rss http://prop-press.vox.com/library/post/from-the-archives-of-our-political-education.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:14:55 -0600 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://prop-press.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c114132ae1c4080123f17bc32a860f.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00c114132ae1c4080123f17bc32a860f-50si" alt="sandinista visitor, 1986" /></a> <a href="http://prop-press.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c114132ae1c4080123ddd1fc64860c.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00c114132ae1c4080123ddd1fc64860c-50si" alt="cesar chavez flyer from &#39;86, carleton college" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> The other day Sarah received a box from her parents containing a bunch of odds and ends from her high school and college years. It was fun to look through the stuff, travel the paths of memories. The re-discoveries included these two flyers from ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://prop-press.vox.com/library/post/from-the-archives-of-our-political-education.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c114132ae1c40801240b7856d1860e?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> politics college posters archives flyers nicaragua ufw campus activism http://prop-press.vox.com/library/post/delivery-guy.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(dan s wang) http://prop-press.vox.com/library/post/delivery-guy.html?_c=feed-rss http://prop-press.vox.com/library/post/delivery-guy.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:36:11 -0600 Chicago pals Daniel Tucker and David Meyers found a way for my Madison/Chicago commute to function as something more than just a private two and a half hour meditation. They are both roasting and peddling coffee as small scale cottage ind... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://prop-press.vox.com/library/post/delivery-guy.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c114132ae1c4080123ddbbeaa4860b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> coffee driving chicago madison commuting fair trade http://prop-press.vox.com/library/post/quick-milwaukee-art-museum-trip.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(dan s wang) http://prop-press.vox.com/library/post/quick-milwaukee-art-museum-trip.html?_c=feed-rss http://prop-press.vox.com/library/post/quick-milwaukee-art-museum-trip.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:06:03 -0500 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://prop-press.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c114132ae1c4080123ddcad79c860c.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00c114132ae1c4080123ddcad79c860c-50si" alt="chairs on pedestals" /></a> <a href="http://prop-press.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c114132ae1c40801240b71322e860e.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a6.vox.com/6a00c114132ae1c40801240b71322e860e-50si" alt="theaster gates video with chipstone manager&#39;s desk" /></a> <a href="http://prop-press.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c114132ae1c4080123ddb5e646860b.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a6.vox.com/6a00c114132ae1c4080123ddb5e646860b-50si" alt="100_1087" /></a> <a href="http://prop-press.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c114132ae1c40801240b713232860e.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00c114132ae1c40801240b713232860e-50si" alt="100_1084" /></a> <a href="http://prop-press.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c114132ae1c4080123ddcad7bc860c.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00c114132ae1c4080123ddcad7bc860c-50si" alt="&quot;checkpoint&quot; by aaron hughes" /></a> <a href="http://prop-press.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c114132ae1c4080123f1749de1860f.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a1.vox.com/6a00c114132ae1c4080123f1749de1860f-50si" alt="calatrava lobby" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> I scooted over to Milwaukee yesterday, to meet up at the Milwaukee Art Museum with Ethan Lasser, a curator from Chipstone, and, in yet another capacity of working together, good ol' Rebecca Zorach. Ethan walked us through the galleries that house ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://prop-press.vox.com/library/post/quick-milwaukee-art-museum-trip.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c114132ae1c4080123ddde86cb860d?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> painting architecture art milwaukee posters installation decorative arts milwaukee art museum aaron hughes chipstone theaster gates rebecca zorach http://prop-press.vox.com/library/post/reading-report-the-origins-of-totalitarianism.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(dan s wang) http://prop-press.vox.com/library/post/reading-report-the-origins-of-totalitarianism.html?_c=feed-rss http://prop-press.vox.com/library/post/reading-report-the-origins-of-totalitarianism.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:35:06 -0500 It was more than three years ago that I picked up a remaindered copy of Hannah Arendt's classic The Origins of Totalitarianism. It sat on the shelf for a long while before I decided to tackle it. Nobody would call me a voracious reader, but I try ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://prop-press.vox.com/library/post/reading-report-the-origins-of-totalitarianism.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c114132ae1c4080123ddb2e258860b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> politics books history theory hannah arendt reading report http://prop-press.vox.com/library/post/more-mud-stencillingin-madison.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(dan s wang) http://prop-press.vox.com/library/post/more-mud-stencillingin-madison.html?_c=feed-rss http://prop-press.vox.com/library/post/more-mud-stencillingin-madison.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:07:43 -0500 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://prop-press.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c114132ae1c4080123f16eef15860f.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00c114132ae1c4080123f16eef15860f-50si" alt="sarah quinn, from wisc. books to prisoners" /></a> <a href="http://prop-press.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c114132ae1c4080123ddc52664860c.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00c114132ae1c4080123ddc52664860c-50si" alt="mud stencilling teams" /></a> <a href="http://prop-press.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c114132ae1c40801240b6b8206860e.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a6.vox.com/6a00c114132ae1c40801240b6b8206860e-50si" alt="jesse graves" /></a> <a href="http://prop-press.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c114132ae1c40801240b6b8215860e.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00c114132ae1c40801240b6b8215860e-50si" alt="mud stencilling demo" /></a> <a href="http://prop-press.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c114132ae1c4080123ddd8d4ad860d.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00c114132ae1c4080123ddd8d4ad860d-50si" alt="laying down mud" /></a> <a href="http://prop-press.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c114132ae1c4080123f16eef58860f.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a0.vox.com/6a00c114132ae1c4080123f16eef58860f-50si" alt="the moment of truth!" /></a> <a href="http://prop-press.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c114132ae1c4080123ddc526a2860c.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00c114132ae1c4080123ddc526a2860c-50si" alt="a perfectly laid mud stencil!" /></a> <a href="http://prop-press.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c114132ae1c4080123ddd8d776860d.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a6.vox.com/6a00c114132ae1c4080123ddd8d776860d-50si" alt="books liberate, in front of the federal courthouse" /></a> <a href="http://prop-press.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c114132ae1c4080123f16ef221860f.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a1.vox.com/6a00c114132ae1c4080123f16ef221860f-50si" alt="mud stencil, abstracted by vandal-security guard" /></a> <a href="http://prop-press.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c114132ae1c4080123ddd8d796860d.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a6.vox.com/6a00c114132ae1c4080123ddd8d796860d-50si" alt="100_1059" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Nicolas Lampert and Jesse Graves came to town to lead a mud stencilling action for the Wisconsin Books to Prisoners campaign to end the Department of Corrections bad habit of denying prisoners from receiving used books from the outside. The ostens... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://prop-press.vox.com/library/post/more-mud-stencillingin-madison.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c114132ae1c4080123ddd8be98860d?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> public art graphic art mud stencilling prison issues madison activism art activism http://prop-press.vox.com/library/post/students-at-columbia-college-fighting-to-save-map-grants.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(dan s wang) http://prop-press.vox.com/library/post/students-at-columbia-college-fighting-to-save-map-grants.html?_c=feed-rss http://prop-press.vox.com/library/post/students-at-columbia-college-fighting-to-save-map-grants.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:41:41 -0500 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://prop-press.vox.com/library/video/6a00c114132ae1c4080123f16dbf90860f.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a0.vox.com/6a00c114132ae1c4080123f16dbf90860f-50si" alt="I Wonder What I Could Be" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Students at the school that employs me, Columbia College Chicago, have been very active in trying to save the Monetary Award Program in Illinois. This publicly funded program helps tens of thousands of young people in Illinois gain access to highe... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://prop-press.vox.com/library/post/students-at-columbia-college-fighting-to-save-map-grants.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c114132ae1c4080123ddc3f767860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> activism education students columbia college funding for education http://prop-press.vox.com/library/post/bouncing-between-recent-events-madison-and-chicago.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(dan s wang) http://prop-press.vox.com/library/post/bouncing-between-recent-events-madison-and-chicago.html?_c=feed-rss http://prop-press.vox.com/library/post/bouncing-between-recent-events-madison-and-chicago.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:30:53 -0500 As a human yo-yo, I do try to hit the best of both poles. On Wednesday night at the Wisconsin Book Festival going on in Madison I caught all of Lewis Koch's presentation and most of Barbara Manger and Janine Smith's, who together authored the book... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://prop-press.vox.com/library/post/bouncing-between-recent-events-madison-and-chicago.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c114132ae1c4080123ddd3d542860d?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> film movies documentary china commuting criticism madison-chicago madison events http://prop-press.vox.com/library/post/commute-report.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(dan s wang) http://prop-press.vox.com/library/post/commute-report.html?_c=feed-rss http://prop-press.vox.com/library/post/commute-report.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 03 Oct 2009 03:12:05 -0500 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://prop-press.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c114132ae1c4080123ddbd84f1860c.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a1.vox.com/6a00c114132ae1c4080123ddbd84f1860c-50si" alt="100_0987" /></a> <a href="http://prop-press.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c114132ae1c4080123ddbd856d860c.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00c114132ae1c4080123ddbd856d860c-50si" alt="100_0985" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> I am in the middle of a very busy season. Shanghype! is open now at the Hyde Park Art Center. Heartland is open at the Smart Museum. And Demise continues at the South Side Community Art Center. Well, a busy three weeks, anyway. It means making a l... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://prop-press.vox.com/library/post/commute-report.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c114132ae1c4080123ddd13936860d?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> driving exhibitions madison-chicago http://prop-press.vox.com/library/post/on-joe-wilson-and-annie-le.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(dan s wang) http://prop-press.vox.com/library/post/on-joe-wilson-and-annie-le.html?_c=feed-rss http://prop-press.vox.com/library/post/on-joe-wilson-and-annie-le.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:53:01 -0500 Social interactions in the United States between persons are always already informed by race relations, precisely because this society is and always has been made up of so many different kinds of races, nationalities, and ethnicities, ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://prop-press.vox.com/library/post/on-joe-wilson-and-annie-le.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c114132ae1c4080123dda3078c860b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> media gender politics asian american obama race relations joe wilson annie le http://prop-press.vox.com/library/post/laurie-jo-reynolds-space-ghost-in-madison.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(dan s wang) http://prop-press.vox.com/library/post/laurie-jo-reynolds-space-ghost-in-madison.html?_c=feed-rss http://prop-press.vox.com/library/post/laurie-jo-reynolds-space-ghost-in-madison.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:31:39 -0500 And tomorrow evening, Thurs, September 10, we have a great event in Madison: Laurie Jo Reynolds! Come out and view her video work Space Ghost. I've seen it once and can say for sure, it is entertaining, sad, funny, clever, and gets us thinking abo... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://prop-press.vox.com/library/post/laurie-jo-reynolds-space-ghost-in-madison.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c114132ae1c4080110186eb1be860f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> video artist activists prison issues madison activism laurie jo reynolds