Private tuition deal OKd

    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 […]

shaking hands

  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 […]

absob language filter

  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 […]

remove the tags

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 […]

consumer prosthetics

  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 […]