Cats and their rodent admirers. Simplicissimus. July 18, 1896. Cover art.
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When the post is funny but you disagree with the underlying philosophical premises in it
Aight hear me out...
John Brosio (American, b. 1967)
The Night hunt, 2013
Oil On Canvas
A slender bolo tie held together by an antique clasp in the shape of a bird skull. The skull features eight cavities for eyes. It's disturbing, but you can't look away.
Eight-eyed teratorn tie from disco elysium REAL!!!
Humble bee. (Former name for the bumble bee.) A natural history of reptiles, serpents, and insects. 1820 ed.
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→ the map is not the thing mapped
1. Eric Temple Bell, Numerology (1933) 2. Alfred Korzybski, “A Non-Aristotelian System and Its Necessity for Rigour in Mathematics and Physics” in Science and Sanity (1933) 3. Jorge Luis Borges, “On Exactitude in Science” (1946) in Collected Fictions (trans. Andrew Hurley) 4.Mark S. Monmonier, How to Lie with Maps (1991) 5. xkcd, “Map Projections” 6. Paul B. Anderson, “Distortion On Map Projections Using Gedymin Profiles” (2009) 7. Jakub Nowosad, “Proportions of apparent size and real size (animated)” [relationship between the Mercator projection and the actual relative size of each country] (2018) 8. Tissot’s Indicatrices visualizing the distortion between the world as a 3D sphere (where the indicatrices are all identical circles) and a 2D projection of its surface (i.e. onto the Mercator projection) 9. Raymond B. Craib, “Cartography and Decolonization” in Decolonizing the Map ed. James R. Akerman (2017) 10. The West Wing 2.16 - “Somebody’s Going to Emergency, Somebody’s Going to Jail” (2001) 11. Matthew H. Edney, Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765-1843 (1997) 12. J. B. Harley, “Deconstructing the Map” (1990), Cartographica 26(2): 1-20 13. Apoorva Tadepalli, “Colonial Cartography: The more personal maps become, the more intimately we accept their imperialistic ideology,” Real Life magazine (2019) 14. Jeff VanderMeer’s annotations on his book Annihilation (2014) 15. Lindsay Drager, The Archive of Alternate Endings (2019)
TottaKAI tääl on satanu lunta joku 10 cm suoraa jään päälle ni et tosiaan nää mis kohtaa on liukasta ja mis ei.......
Dark surreal wolf illustrations by Lunaotic
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