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Don’t mind the momentary change in direction, we’re taking a little detour from my last post. We will go back there but I want to talk about the reality of the practice of seclusion in 2011. “Seclusion is the placing of a person at any time and for any duration, alone in an area where […]
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Social media marketing specialist, Mitch Joel examines the counter-intuitive possibility of an increasingly anti-social Web. Mitch is President of Twist Image, an award-winning Digital Marketing and Communications agency, although he prefers the title, Media Hacker.
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Iranian-born artist Shirin Neshat explores the paradox of being an artist in exile: a voice for her people, but unable to go home. In her work, she explores Iran pre- and post-Islamic Revolution, tracing political and societal change through powerful images of women.
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We think of pain as a symptom, but there are cases where the nervous system develops feedback loops and pain becomes a terrifying disease in itself. Starting with the story of a girl whose sprained wrist turned into a nightmare.
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Ten days ago Kate Raue was moved from Rangipapa to Te Whare Ahuru. For privacy reasons Rangipapa weren’t telling anyone where she’d gone, only that she’d ‘left the Unit’. I thought at the time that the construction of the explanation was an interesting one so I had my doubts about whether she’d been released to […]
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