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Category Archives: History
Looking At The Past
KoreaBang has a cool series of pics of pre-war South Korea. The comments are, err, interesting. But the picture are amazing.
Posted in History, Korea, Kultur
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Remembering 4/29
A great L. A. Weekly piece on the 20th anniversary of the L. A. Riots. I’d forgotten just how much they had to do with animosities between black and Korean Angelenos: “Koreatown has undergone a dramatic transformation since the riots. … Continue reading
Posted in America, History, Korea, Kultur
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Brothers In Arms
A moving story from the Korea Herald: “Two deceased Canadian brothers who fought in the Korean War will be reunited in their final resting place here after more than 60 years. On Sunday, the ashes of Canadian veteran of the … Continue reading
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How Jackson Pollock Defeated The Soviet Union
This is awesome — Peter Duggan’s “Artoons”: I honestly don’t read American newspapers any longer because they’re so awful, with the occasional jaunt over to The New York Times. The Guardian is almost all I need for news, and the … Continue reading
You Got Your Money In My Aesthetic Purity!
The Guardian’s Jonathan Jones on why people get angry that the few shining stars of the contemporary art scene are paid ridiculous amounts of money for their work: “Figures like that are hard to comprehend. The financial value put on … Continue reading
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Textgasm
Via Metafilter, the British Library has acquired and digitized the St. Cuthbert Gospel, the “earliest intact European book.” Digital archive here.
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Henry Rollins, Ph.D.
Henry Rollins, American history scholar: “So whenever I see the rebel flag on a band’s backdrop, or anywhere else, I find it curious that someone would want to display a symbol that carries so much baggage. To the Southern states, … Continue reading
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Just Don’t Do It Korea, M’kay?
Korean politics and culture blog Gusts of Popular Feeling is always good, but this epic post on the history of blackface performance in Korea is outstanding. I went to a prestigious southern university for my M.A. and every semester, without … Continue reading
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Before Downton Abbey There Was…
Awesome Metafilter post on the various BBC “re-creation” series — Victorian House, Wales House, Wartime House (with youtube links to complete episodes). God I love these shows. God I’m a huge BBC/PBS nerd.
Posted in Film, History, Internet
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Fun While It Lasted
Andrew Bacevich on the end of the “American Century”: “Having learned nothing from the American Century, present-day strategists—the ones keen to bomb Iran, confront China, and seize control of outer space as the ‘ultimate high ground’—will continue the practice of … Continue reading
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