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    Each year, the VLC identifies a topic of urgency and resonance that becomes the subject of various public programs – Speculating on Change is the annual theme for 2009-2010, in response to the Obama call for “change we can believe in.”

    The discussions probe perceptions, descriptions, measurements, and meanings of change that inform collective action, whether political, scientific, or cultural. Speculating on Change also entails projection, prognosis and risk, and embodies the fluid and divergent time space continuum of contemporary existence.

    The programs are tied to the previous cycle on democracy as an eternally deferred state. Both program cycles received the generous support of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

    "Juan Cole," screen grab by Martha Rosler

    martha rosler’s partial, partisan blogroll

    Part Three

    This is the final post in a three-part series by Martha Rosler. Read the first post here and the second post here; Vera List Center director Carin Kuoni introduces Rosler’s blogroll project here.

    The blogroll

    The political blogosphere is, as I have suggested,…

    Posted on December 11, 2009

    "Buzzflash," screen grab by Martha Rosler

    martha rosler’s partial, partisan blogroll

    Part Two

    This is the second post in a three-part series by Martha Rosler. Read the first post here and the third post here; Vera List Center director Carin Kuoni introduces Rosler’s blogroll project here.

    Jostling for position, and who pays?

    In the wider spheres…

    Posted on December 9, 2009

    "Daily Kos," screen grab by Martha Rosler

    martha rosler’s partial, partisan blogroll

    Part One

    This is the first post in a three-part series by Martha Rosler. Read the second post here and the third post here; Vera List Center director Carin Kuoni introduces Rosler’s blogroll project here.

    Introduction

    The political “blogosphere” is a dynamic reticulation whose many…

    Posted on December 7, 2009

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