[-empyre-] the act of forgetting

[Cara Baldwin]

Thinking this into a new formation of practice. 

A move--against forgetting.  

The project I am working on exists solidly in a declared 'information war': 

http://occupyeverything.com/category/features/

and includes resources such as a school and library... 


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> On 12/03/2011 05:56, "Joel Tauber" <joeltauber at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Although we are all bombarded by seemingly endless amounts of imagery and
>> “news”, I am convinced that we are also all suffering from information
>> deprivation, and in a multiplicity of ways.  While media conglomerates and
>> government powers shield information from us continually – and spin the
>> information that we are being fed – I think we are also all guilty of
>> collectively forgetting our histories.  Information is ignored even when we
>> have access to it.   Certain things are just too difficult to face.
>> Government
>> handouts, unregulated corporations, corporate takeovers of the media and of
>> the government, industry’s devastation of the environmentS  These are very
>> old stories.  Why should we be surprised by these things when they continue
>> to happen?  How can we continue to allow them to occur?
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