Private tuition deal OKd May 13, 1999 BY DAVE MCKINNEY AND MATT ADRIAN SUN-TIMES SPRINGFIELD BUREAU SPRINGFIELD–Parents who send their children to private or parochial schools could get $500 tax credits under legislation that passed the Illinois House on Wednesday amid constitutional concerns. Gov. Ryan, who went to the House floor to […]
(Why do you always have to be so political?) Everything is political. If we really want to change the city we have to change the way we live. As I said before, the city is the direct result of our choices as consumers, not as designers. We have to realize every choice we make throughout […]
people love to shake hands of famous people. to see them ‘in person.’ ‘i shook the presidents hand’ does not usually illicit the response, ‘yeah, but i saw him on tv.’ (although i have heard this in regards to sporting events before.) we are obsessed with this physical contact because it allows us to […]
we must absorb language in order to annihilate it. language absorbs its self. this is not the clean and pure empty void. this is a space of empty floating words, a battlefield after a battle strewn with corpses of meaning. the words lie there in there physicality, exhausted, transformed and meaningless by attempts to […]
we could put all the hundreds of thousands of computers we throw away every year in the classrooms. we could give every kid a computer. we could put linux on all of them. we could guarantee an unprecedented evolution of contributions and understanding of the basics of an information world. we could give birth to […]
no longer can we imagine pure platonic forms. nothing is pure. nothing is separate. nothing is autonomous. never can the representation be removed from what it represents, that is, never can a representation be prevented from affecting what it represents. the act of representation changes that which it represents. and thus, hper-real representation attempts […]